> Please...if you are requesting help, don't insult me by > expecting me to jump through these idiotic processes > that say, in effect, that your time is more valuable > than mine.
I'm normally one who doesn't put up with a lot of crap. I just got a call from a company asking me to make sure I've submitted my proxy for the upcoming shareholders meeting. Did you send me the proxy announcement in the mail? Did it give me three different ways to state my preferences (mail, Web, and phone)? Is one of my options to withhold my vote? Then why are you calling me? -- that kind of thing. However, your logic in this post is self-defeating. By refusing to go through the process of being whitelisted, you are saying, in effect, that your time is more valuable than the person to whom you sent the email -- the same accusation you make of him or her. Under normal circumstances these systems are harmless as long as they're working properly. Everyone to whom you send an email should be automatically added to the whitelist so their response is not blocked. Everyone who sends an uninvited email is temporarily blocked. In that case the sender obviously wants their email to go through, so filling out a form to make it happen is not a problem. When replying privately to a post on a list like this one, there's no way you can expect the original sender can pre-approve all list members. So when you choose to reply privately I don't see why it makes sense to complain about having to go through the authentication step. Are you really trying to help a person or is this spirit of helpfulness just a thin veneer over an otherwise cold, dark heart? The latter seems likely if all it takes to discourage you from helping is an email asking you to authenticate your identity. (By the way I'm replying to someone who replied to the original sender, whose message I missed, so I'm not picking on anyone in particular here.) In my position as president of my company I get a lot of unsolicited email from customers. In many cases I'm sure if we did the math, my time really IS more valuable than theirs. I like to think that I'm above lording that over them, however, and have no problem doing a little vision test and filling in the numbers on an authentication form. Craig NZ0R K1 #1966 K2/100 #4941 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
