Re: 4ol 4rt files:
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:50:12PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Hal writes:
> > Some do, some don't. Some read the full web page, some don't.
>
> The ones who do don't spam us. The ones who spam us (that is who I mean by
> "these people") don't.
>
> > I added in "THE HELPFUL ANSWER" or something like that to the title of my
> > message.
>
> Making the email address all the more attractive to the doofuses.
>
> > It may help, it may not.
>
> It will make it worse.
>
> > As for the "These people"... Will that group of people on this list ever
> > stop this geek snobbery?
>
> Snobbery, hell. Anyone who copies an email address out of a Google hit and
> sends off a complaint without reading the referenced message is a doofus.
>
> It's not so much that AOLers are stupid as it is that they are numerous and
> are, more or less, a cross section of the population. As the population
> contains a substantial percentage of doofuses..
> --
> John Hasler
>
No, the population does not contain a substantial percentage of doofuses.
But with modern email, a tiny fraction can make a substantial negative impact.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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