Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:00:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dana Bell <dbell@texramp.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail?c Message-ID: <19980218150008.23096@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199802180311.VAA00811@host1.texramp.net>; from Dana Bell on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 09:00:55PM %2B0000 References: <199802180311.VAA00811@host1.texramp.net>
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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
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