I've all but given up on trying to make people think for a few microseconds before sending email to 600 people, but in one more act of desperation, here goes.
Why is it that you folks can't seem to send coherent messages? Is it really that difficult to cut and paste a few words of the previous post into yours so that other readers have some idea of who or what you're talking about? Or to delete the previous five messages that have been trailing along with replies? Is it really that hard to send a purely private email directly to the person that needs to see it, rather than to 600 people? And how long does it take to stand back and look at a message to see if maybe you typed it with caps lock on, rather than off (or half and half)? Or to actually READ the thing to yourself before you send it, in hopes that you might spy something like a missing word, the wrong word, or that same word twice, or the fact that it's 10 sentences long but doesn't have a single capital letter or a period in it anywhere, or that it just plain doesn't make any sense? I hope you people build better airplanes than you can write a message. No wonder many of you can't read the plans...you can't even read or write! And why is it so much trouble to follow the KRnet rules set out at http://www.krnet.org/info.html under the heading of "KRNetiquette"? These rules were sent to every new subscriber, but apparently there are many who've never read them, or care to follow them. Why is it that some of you blundering perps would rather save yourselves a few seconds of time and pound out a reply and blast if off, so that 600 people who have to spend THEIR time to decipher what you're talking about, or what it is that you're trying to say? Some of it may be ignorance, but my gut feeling is that it's just plain old-fashioned inconsideration of others. Even a complete moron can type, given enough time and effort. Yesterday one of our real live KR pilots unsubscribed, probably over all the senseless traffic regarding Garmin's alleged price fixing. We need to keep these guys around. Making this list more painless would be a step in the right direction... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
