On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jay wrote: > Most free put an add at the bottom, too.
Yes. A terse, easy to ignore one. This is reasonable. Multi-paragraph legalese is not reasonable. > What annoys me are the crazy disclaimers. But they are corporate > policy in a lot of places, and it's crazy to think that people should > keep a separate e-mail account just for this list. No, it isn't. If you come to a list like this seeking help, the least you can do is be courteous to the people you're seeking help from. Spamming them with "mandatory" legal garbage that can be easily circumvented by using a different account is a trivial way around this problem. Most any mail client will happily access email from multiple accounts if you take the 90 seconds to set it up to do so, so this is really a mix of both discourtesy to the reader and profound laziness on the part of the sender that you're defending. > And then, maybe, explian how sending an e-mail to the entire list > actively plugging two specific service providers in the body of your > message is less spamish than than a completely ignorable sig that just > sits at the bottom of them message. I don't care what alternate account he signs up with, I just cited two of the more popular ones. Fastmail.fm is another one, and they even let you access your mail by IMAP, POP, or the web, which goes back into setting up his mail client to use multiple accounts. > Anyway, this is just getting silly. Many of us may miss the "old > days," but the internet we work on now is dominated by coporate legal > and marketing departments, not by kibo, and we can't spend too much of > our time beating our heads against it...too hard to see through the > blood. The particulars of courtesy evolve, this is true, but some things don't change, and being mindful of when you're wasting other people's time, bandwidth, or other resources is one such thing that doesn't change. I am, admittedly, guilty of all that by being baited by the earlier message, and for that I apologize and won't carry on the thread after this message. But the point remains that corporate disclaimers are a waste of everyone's time, bandwidth, storage, etc, and a courteous person would avoid signing up to a list from an account that mandates such pollution. But I've wasted enough of everyone's time with this, so... sorry for the noise, and in the future I'll just tune my killfiles instead :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
