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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:53:16 -0400
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Andrew Boothman <andrew@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Mike <skillet@nauticom.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: Cant these people spell?
Message-ID:  <19991027145316.15105@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991027175614.andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org>; from Andrew Boothman on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:56:14PM %2B0100
References:  <01ac01bf1f6d$52bbd100$2501000a@franops1> <XFMail.991027175614.andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday, 27 October 1999 at 17:56:14 +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
>
> On 26-Oct-99 Mike wrote:
>> So... What makes you god ? just because they cant type doesnt not mean they
>> dont need help.... rember one day you guys where a newbie too..... we all
>> were I mean show some niceness geeze.. oh damm did I spell a word wrong time
>> for me to get bitch at too eh...
>
> It's not a question of anyone playing god, simply that _everyone_ should make
> the effort to properly format and errorcheck their e-mails.

There's an additional issue here: there seems to be a distinct
correlation between people who can't (or won't) spell or format their
messages correctly, and people who have trouble installing.  Should
this be a surprise?

> When you get 100s of email each day (and those on -questions and/or
> -current will) a badly formatted or spelt message could simply get
> ignored. Like it or not, that's a fact.

Definitely.  I usually delete them without trying to read them.

Greg
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