From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 17 20:32:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14173 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13859 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28713; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:00:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA29514; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:00:08 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980218150008.23096@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:00:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dana Bell , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail?c References: <199802180311.VAA00811@host1.texramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199802180311.VAA00811@host1.texramp.net>; from Dana Bell on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 09:00:55PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 17 February 1998 at 21:00:55 +0000, Dana Bell wrote: >> It seems to me that in the last couple of months the number of >> hard-to-read mail messages has significantly increased. I've come to >> expect poorly prepared messages from -questions, and I've written a >> web page to try to stop people from doing the nasty things they do, > > You gonna give us the URL? Since you insist :-) http://www.lemis.com/email.html I'll gratefully receive any suggestions for improvement. >> Am I just getting intolerant in my old age, or do other people see >> this as a problem as well? > > Folks must just be too busy to interleave. In fact, I think most are > too busy to click the button to not quote the message, since many > replies have very little reference to the original message. Oh, I get a few of those, too. Sombody replies to a reply I sent to -questions and says (complete message): * No, I didn't mean it that way. Compared with that, I'd rather have the whole message >> Oh, and this way I'll see if -chat is still alive :-) > > Duh, is this chat? :) Yup, and this is the first message I've had from it in a couple of weeks. Seems there *was* some breakage, but Jonathan's fixed it now. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message