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[[email protected]: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail?]
----- Forwarded message from Eivind Eklund <[email protected]> -----
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:48:18 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <[email protected]>
To: Greg Lehey <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail?
Yes.
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:59:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> It seems to me that in the last couple of months the number of
> hard-to-read mail messages has significantly increased. I've come to
> expect poorly prepared messages from -questions, and I've written a
> web page to try to stop people from doing the nasty things they do,
> but lately I've noticed a tendency creeping in to the more technical
> mailing lists as well. In particular, people are starting not to
> interleave answer and original text, the original reason for quoting
> messages, but just appending them at the end of the message, so that
> after about three iterations you have to look in four different places
> to find the references.
>
> Am I just getting intolerant in my old age, or do other people see
> this as a problem as well?
>
> Oh, and this way I'll see if -chat is still alive :-)
>
> Greg
>
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Eivind, who just had to :-)
P.S. The "Yes." part is serious, though it's placement isn't. D.S.
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