Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 21:38:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asking Sue nicely, no personal Emails... (was Re: How import Message-ID: <XFMail.980627213858.fewtch@serv.net> In-Reply-To: <35956543.60D2BDCB@boothman.easynet.co.uk>
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On 27-Jun-98 Andrew Boothman wrote: > Tim, please except that sending replies to the original poster is > standard practice on freebsd-* lists for reasons that we all know. It does specifically state "unless there's a good reason to do so." I think a strong personal request is a good enough reason, in my book. > It is > very difficult to see why an exception should be made for you. It's a long story, and involves some private communication Sue and I had when I first joined the list. I can't and won't reveal any of this private communication, sorry. That does create the problem of others being unable to understand why I'm adament about this, but I don't see any way to solve that problem. > I use > Netscape Communicator and I have a filter set up so that any e-mail that > has newbies@freebsd.org in the to or cc headers gets moved to a separate > mailbox. Surely your mail software is flexible enough to allow you to > set it up similarly. It may or may not be, but I still would prefer that she not send me any personal mail. Sorry, but I'm going to be stubborn about this. It's my right to choose what I receive and what I don't, since I'm paying my ISP for the disk space to hold messages. If you were receiving Email from a spammer, don't you feel it's your right not to receive that Email? You're paying for your Email. Similar thing. > Also, I do not believe that threatening Sue with > going to her ISP will help you get anywhere. You are asking people to do > you a favour, and threading people will hardly make them feel happier to > help you. I wouldn't have, except that I had already made the request once and did receive private Email after this request. > There is no place in any freebsd mailing list for this sort of flaming. If you consider this flaming, you've obviously never done Usenet. This kind of "flaming" could be considered to be like lighting a small match. I've seen flaming with giant flamethrowers that attempt to reduce the person being flamed to ashes and dust. Obviously that's not what I'm doing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Date: 27-Jun-98 Time: 21:30:13 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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