On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:23 -0600, Hal Duston wrote:
Or else ... what? Seriously or else what? I'll tell you or else what? Or else you won't read it. Which is my loss, but perhaps I care, or perhaps I don't. Perhaps my investment is less than yours. Or more. So it goes.
I'm sorry but that's just bullshit. Emails from complete morons appearing in the middle of threads dealing with salient issues (like our _mail_server_having_problems_) *must* be read. There's no avoiding it.
Lets presume that this email pisses you off so much that you decide to
/dev/null everything coming from me. I don't think I need to
illustrate what kind of effect that would have on your ability to ascertain the full context of thread in which I participate ...
To demand a standard of quality from those who choose to participate in the public arena is as old as the word 'etiquette' itself.