On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:23:30PM +0000, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > / Mark H. Wood wrote on Wed 21.Nov'12 at 9:56:23 -0500 / > > > Well, when it doesn't work to lecture people who are trying to > > communicate, try ignoring them. On public MLs, whenever my "this guy > > doesn't know how to communicate effectively" recognizer goes off, I > > typically hit 'd' and move on. [snip] > > Your preference, of course, but this just seems unnecessarily intollerant > if you ask me. Netiquette is merely a guideline, not a law. People > sometimes just reply quickly and therefore forget to adhere to some of > the netiquette guidelines, it doesn't mean they should be ignored. Why > would you want to adopt such an approach? It's unfriendly and > unwelcoming and is one of the reasons people sometimes feel > uncomfortable posting to mailing lists in fear of being publicly > scorned. Surely that goes against the whole purpose of mailing lists and > usenet which is to help people and share information.
Well, dashing something off without caring whether it is readable is unfriendly and unwelcoming too. If a thought is not worth the effort of writing it well, I have found that generally it is not worth the recipient's effort to read it. I can't help someone if I'm so tired and confused from the effort to winkle out the poster's meaning that I have no brainpower left to help with. Why waste that time? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu I don't do "doorbusters".
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