Re: Frank Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:03:06AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Bullshit. It is not part of my duties to wipe the butt of
> people too incompetent to figure out a way of getting email. I'll
> make a reasonable effort (send them mail), and then move on to
> actually working on helping Debian, rather than helping an piss-poor
> email system.
OK, so tell me what scenario you prefer.
Scenario 1:
- User e-mails you about something relating to your official duties.
- You reply to the user from your dialup IP, and your message gets bounced
by his ISP
- Upon receipt of the bounce message, you take *20 seconds* to login to a
webmail site, cut and paste your e-mail, and include something at the end
like "by the way, I tried to send this mail from my other account but it
was blocked. You should consider using an ISP with a better filtering
policy"
- User says "thanks, I'll look into that" and leaves with a good impression.
Scenario 2:
- User e-mails you about something relating to your official duties.
- You reply to the user from your dialup IP, and your message gets bounced
by his ISP.
- You think "fuck this braindead user", delete the message, and forget
about it.
- User waits a week and sends another message. You ignore it because in
your mind, you already answered him and he ignored you.
- User waits another week and then complains to debian-devel about being
ignored. You of course then have to respond to him, bringing up your
dynamic IP situation. We then get to have a repeat of this thread for the
Xth time.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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