On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:47:29AM +0100, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote:
> > I do spend my life actually doing work, when I have free time I spend it helping people who are terminally ill, so im sorry if I cant follow your rules, but you see, unlike you, firing off emails to random people including many people who are fine, this person has a life, you, well, dont. Im sure this email is fuel for your pedantic fire, alas, the fires burning, nobodies stoking it...
>
> Actually, the other guy's right. Your email is unreadable. Fix that.
Usually I reformat quotes such as above to insert linewrap, etc. but
this time it seems appropriate to leave it.
It's difficult to take someone seriously who:
o top posts
o uses an MUA which "quotes" the previous message _as an attachment_
o regularly insults people
o refuses to use punctuation and other conventions which facilitate
readability
o isn't bold enough to use his real name but calls himself
"Hell.Surfers"
o As far as I can tell, has never posted any useful content
Any one of these transgressions might be excusable. Taken as a whole,
the effect seems to cause reactions such as the following from the
linux-kernel list[1]:
I'm not a big fan of kill-files but...
:0
* ^X-Mailer: Liberate TVMail
/dev/null
Others have argued that killfiles should be used as a last resort, and
I tend to agree. However, this guy seems to have irritated large
portions of the net.
BTW, though my killfile is not large, I seem to have encountered most
of its members on this list (debian-user). I don't know if that's
interesting or not :-)
[1] http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2003/week00/0511.html
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