Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

From: David Fokkema (dfokkema_at_ileos.nl)
Date: 08/02/03

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    On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
    > How dare you ***ASSUME*** that I am spamming you! Who are you that I
    > ought to feel compelled to jump through your hoops, simply to say -- in
    > an email -- hello ?!?!

    I'm very sorry you feel that way. I gather from the replies to my mails
    that other people feel that same way. Please let me elaborate a tiny bit
    on my viewpoint.

    On occasion, people send me proprietary format attachments. I can get
    all worked up about that but I only do that when people refuse to
    understand that it is annoying to start up some slow interpreter to read
    a few lines of text which might as well be included in the mail itself.
    (I see a parallel, people might get all worked up about me not seeming
    to understand that it is annoying to get a C-R, my apologies). However,
    reading a mail message and hitting reply usually only one minute after I
    sent my original mail doesn't seem to be a lot effort to me. I respect
    other people's mechanisms of blocking spam unless it consumes much of my
    time, which it doesn't.

    What did people think about the debian mailing lists subscription
    mechanism?

    But I have to be realistic: other people might have received a large
    amount of C-Rs in their daily mail exchange and might have reasons to be
    annoyed. I have not, so don't really see the problem. That might be my
    mistake. If so, my apologies.

    David 

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