On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:55:54 +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> Colin Watson writes: > >> > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating > >> > the Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to > >> > "challenges". > >> > >> And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to "challenges". > > > Why? > > Because we chose not to? Because we have objections in > principle to people offloading their spam fighting effort to innocent > correspondents? Because I have better things to do than to beg and > plead for my answers to be heard by people who asked for help in the > first place?
Then send your answer to the list. > > > If you send mail directly to a person, off-list, in private, why not > > respond to his challenge? In any decent MUA, you just have to hit > > 'r'. > > Right. Just like you just have to hit `d' in order to not read > spam. Not an effort I am interested in undertaking -- the fact that I > bothered to reply is often about as much altruism I am willing to > indulge in. Getting tens of mails of spam a day and hitting `d' on them requires a lot more brain cycles then (almost) blindly responding to a challenge. But that is just my guess, or my opinion. I'm sorry you have objections to C-R systems. But hey, it's your right to have them. Furthermore, I'm sorry to have bothered you to the point you found it necessary to reply to me. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]