Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:09:53 -0800
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:55:12PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
[snip]
>> Some of those "please help" mails are very interesting, and occasionally
> those guys really need help.
[snip]
> If the writer can't be bothered to set an intelligent subject, I have
> no reason to believe that the rest of their post is any more
> intelligently posed. . . .
I receive way more e-mail than I have time for. So far my filters
are only mental, but configuration of grey cells definitely flags
`newbie', `please help', & any vacuity like `Strange Problem with
Debian' -- & I skip on to prospects more promising.
Oh, you say I'm missing some interesting posts? Sure, but seldom.
Now & then I do read what's under an inept subject line, & almost
always find my reasoning reinforced.
Back to Baloo (above), rough but right.
Wendell Cochran
West Seattle
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