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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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