From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 17 16:05:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26804 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26749 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:04:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA28748; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sef) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:04:38 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199802180004.QAA28748@kithrup.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? In-Reply-To: <199802171855.KAA24586.kithrup.freebsd.chat@hub.freebsd.org> References: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 17, 98 04:59:04 pm" Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <199802171855.KAA24586.kithrup.freebsd.chat@hub.freebsd.org> jmb writes: >> In particular, people are starting not to >> interleave answer and original text, the original reason for quoting >> messages, but just appending them at the end of the message, so that >> after about three iterations you have to look in four different places >> to find the references. > i just delete those messages. > i dont have the time to dig out the material, > the persoan asking or commenting should be polite enough to > do the minimum. ;) So you delete all messags from Jordan? While admittedly a way to cut down on your daily amount of email, I'd think Terry would be a better candidate... For news, I just send people a copy of a news.announce.newusers posting. If/when they respond with flames ("who the hell made you net.cop?"), I typically just add them to my .procmailrc file. *sigh* And how about netcom's abuse people, who reply by including the entire spam, and, *at the bottome*, saying what action they've taken? Bah. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message