Right on!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Clow [mailto:stained@the-wire.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:03 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: [idm] two things that are pissing me off
>
>
>
> There've been two bad email habits that seem to have gotten especially
> frequent on this list lately, and it's getting really annoying.
>
> 1) One-line replies.
> No-one needs to see you quote a message (or portion thereof)
> with a reply
> that says nothing but "Yes, I agree!" or "Right on!" or
> "Amen, brother!".
> If you REALLY feel the need to do this, at least have the
> courtesy to send
> your worthless commentary to the person off-list. Otherwise,
> just shut the
> hell up, OK?
>
> 2) Quoting an entire message and putting your reply text at the top.
> More and more frequently, people are doing this, to the point
> where the
> quoted messages are often five or six deep. Not only does this make it
> difficult to put your reply into context, but it's REALLY annoying to
> those of us who are subscribed to the list in digest mode.
> PLEASE make an
> attempt to just quote the bits that you're replying to, and
> trim headers
> and sig files and such.
>
>
> I realize, of course, that these complaints are probably
> useless. The days
> when Internet users actually attempted to stick to a rough
> set of rules of
> courtesy are long behind us, and most of the people guilty of
> these things
> are too rude or stupid to give a shit about other people's
> concerns. But I
> felt the need to say something, however futile it may be.
>
>
> Greg
>
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