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 -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr
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