On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > How dare you ***ASSUME*** that I am spamming you! Who are you that I > ought to feel compelled to jump through your hoops, simply to say -- in > an email -- hello ?!?!
I'm very sorry you feel that way. I gather from the replies to my mails that other people feel that same way. Please let me elaborate a tiny bit on my viewpoint. On occasion, people send me proprietary format attachments. I can get all worked up about that but I only do that when people refuse to understand that it is annoying to start up some slow interpreter to read a few lines of text which might as well be included in the mail itself. (I see a parallel, people might get all worked up about me not seeming to understand that it is annoying to get a C-R, my apologies). However, reading a mail message and hitting reply usually only one minute after I sent my original mail doesn't seem to be a lot effort to me. I respect other people's mechanisms of blocking spam unless it consumes much of my time, which it doesn't. What did people think about the debian mailing lists subscription mechanism? But I have to be realistic: other people might have received a large amount of C-Rs in their daily mail exchange and might have reasons to be annoyed. I have not, so don't really see the problem. That might be my mistake. If so, my apologies. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
