> The following is a personal e-mail to me by Rich. Hey if a lot of
> people feel this way, then I'll just shut up...yeah, I'm breaking
> etiquette, but heck he feels I've done it already... *shrug*
Nah, you post a lot of useful information, keep it up.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 07:41:56 -0400
> From: Rich Brennan <brennan@merk.com>
> To: Sherwood Pekelo <spekelo@iav.com>
> Subject: Re: irc
>
> >My pardon oh great and noble sage... seeing as the ones who voluminously
> >post seem to be the most helpful...*shrug* I apologize, though not
> >profusely...you see if we can get others more assistance in more forums to
> >me that IS appropriate.
>
> Both you and the other guy post nearly content-free blather most of the
Who is the other guy?
> time, so quantity is most definitely != quality. If you generally added
> decent content instead of nonsense, I wouldn't have had to send my
> flame.
You never "have to send a flame."
> Fucking internet newbies are all alike. Kill files are a USENET
> phenomenon. A mailing list is most definitely not supposed to be like
It's just a saying, how about put him in your .procmailrc to filter him
out if you don't want to see his posts.
> You and Messinger like to chatter, and your postings show it. Superfluous
> replies, opinions, opinions, opinions. A lot of smoke, but no fire.
How does that involve you? It's not your business.. let them chatter.
> >> Try to stay on topic, keep the bullshit opinions to yourself, and
> >> use email when your posting isn't of general interest?
> >
> >And the topic was #livingston on efnet as another source of information...
> >something wrong with that?
>
> You were sending to the entire list when an email was appropriate.
> Unfortunately the list is set up to send a "reply" to the entire list. It
No it isn't.
> should be set up so that replies go to a single person. That way you'd
> have to do extra work to reply to the list; I'll bet half the "helpful"
> posts would disappear if someone actually had to mung an email header
> to get their reply delivered to the list.
Oh please, it was information that everyone could find helpful - if they
were getting on the #livingston channel they would know who was who.
- Steve
- Systems Manager
- Community Internet Access, Inc.
- Gallup and Grants, New Mexico