16 Apr
2002
16 Apr
'02
12:39 p.m.
Quothe Christopher Smith, from writings of Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:54AM -0500:
$(*& mail client tries to shove down my throat --
I do that both
because I just don't have the time to write a well-formatted reply,
and because it is not that offensive.
Your point is? Let me take a guess: you feel that your time is more
important than anyone else's time, disk space and bandwidth. As to it
not being offensive, let's just say that there are people in this
world who don't bathe or use deodorants who don't think they're
offensive to others.
Sure, in a perfect world, that's great, but
I've seen some very
informative posts that don't follow these rules. Would you just dump
them? You're certainly not going to talk everybody into following all
of these rules all of the time.
For many years most Usenet posts and e-mail did follow such rules,
then, the 'net became "popular;" the world wasn't perfect back then
either, but most users of the 'net at that time were more likely to be
more intelligent, or at least better educated, than the average
person running loose in our society.
fixed), I'll shut up now.
Good. :-)
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