-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1 Sep 2001, Tim Haynes wrote:
> Tomasz Rola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2. Somebody subscribed Mr. Layne to this list which was meant as a joke. > > In this case, it could be a bad joke of subscribing him to much more > > lists and this means that he may get hundreds or thousands letters a day. > > Not nice. Seems that somebody really dislikes him, if that's the case. > > His reaction suggests that he doesn't really know too much about > > Internet, a casual email user. He got angry and he blames us for sending > > him all those emails. > > If that were the case I would expect him to send a single polite email to > the list manager explaining the situation, not to mouth off at the whole > list/s. The attitude does come into play here - his sucks, and is serving > him no good except to raise a bit of bile here. I think that yes and no. I don't meet too many casual users nowadays and I can't model their thinking process (and hence understand them) but some time ago I have observed they can be easily annoyed and tend to overreact. Newbie syndrome. Of course I don't want to defend him. Myself, I would rather opt for self control. This, however, requires some mental powers and is difficult to achieve (I know this and I know I don't have it which means that the task is non trivial). - From his other posts it comes out that he's only subscribed here, so he gets mere 50-100 or less a day. So you may be right with 70% probability, but I have seen people going crazy because of 1 spam (not here, not here). They probably think one spam/day less could save them $0.0001 and after 10 years they will use this saving to have a free newspaper. Well, if they really enjoy this, why not? [...] > > Bingo. Yoopi... BTW, hi folks. :-). Now, I will shut up again. There is not much sense in babbling. bye T. - -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBO5DvaBETUsyL9vbiEQKpXgCfaeHizUsyVNrrwr9UMcvOxfo2TekAoIGE xeiYbHW4UPCaZYvw4ARynnQV =ekG1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
