The way I see it, long winded e-mails about how people are so lazy because they didn't do whatever is silly and wasteful. If your not willing to help, don't offer your personal opinion/complaint/gripe and bash other people for wanting to know.
Delete it (or all of them) and move on, don't contribute to the "noise" with long e-mails. I do agree that posting "Me too!" to the entire list is wasteful and they should have contacted me directly but everyone is not on the same knowledge level. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Blocking Com Extensions (Attachments) > > Even sillier is that the archives probably have much more useful > > information ... >If that's the case, and I'm sure it is, then instead of adding to the >problem just post a link to the solution. I hate to say it, but if someone doesn't have the time to search the archives (and waste everyone's time by posting a "me too" to the list that could have been sent directly to the original poster), they really don't deserve much help besides where to go for more information. It's that old saying about how if you give someone a fish, they will eat for a day -- but if you teach them how to fish, they will eat for a lifetime. It's one thing to deal with a simple question ("Can IMail do XYZ"), where I can respond with "Yes, see http://www.ipswitch.com/kb/... for details" (both answering the question and providing a link). But in this case, in order for me to post a link, I'll have to do the exact same thing that you would have to do (go to http://www.mail-archive.com, go to the IMail Forum archives, and enter an appropriate search term, such as "ban file extensions"). This is a complex topic (false positives, false negatives, "name=" vs "filename=", uuencoding/encoding/binhex/TNEF/etc, "yahoo.com.url", etc.), that I've posted about this perhaps a dozen times, and I just don't have the time to bend over backwards for these people that are in all honesty being rude. In case I sound harsh here, remember that more than HALF of the posts here were "me too's", that were 100% useless posts. That means that the signal-to-noise ratio here today is definitely <50%. Usually when it is that low, it's due to people arguing -- which isn't a good thing on a list, but at least is more interesting than seeing "Please send me a copy...thanks", "I would like a copy also", "Please send me a copy...thanks.", "May I have a copy too.", etc. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers since 2000. Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
