Wow, do I find this response to be out of bounds. I go Don's route.
best wishes,
dave belsley, w1euy
On Mar 16, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Craig Rairdin wrote:
I agree in the case where I send you a personal email then block your
response. No question that's rude. But we're talking about posting a
question to a list of 2000+ people, expecting an answer to be sent
to the
list. I think it's unreasonable to expect all members of the list to
manually whitelist all members of the list in case they respond
personally
to a posting to the list.
I don't see the problem. If I've taken a few minutes to reply
directly to
some stranger, then taking a couple more seconds to fill out an
authentication form is no big deal.
I would argue your position is no different than saying "I resent
people
asking questions on this list and expecting me to answer. Like I
have time
to tell them how to solder or where to look for the thermal pads in
their K2
kit (they're in the envelope labelled "serial number kit" -- where
else
would they be!!). I have to move my hand to operate the mouse and
select the
reply button. Then I have to move my hand back to the keyboard and
type out
a response, one letter at a time using a keyboard that has all the
letters
scrambled. Then I proofread it to make sure I haven't made any obvious
mistakes, then it's back over to the mouse (will this never end?!)
to select
"send". Oh, and to top it all off, now I have to delete the original
message! Who are these people who are saying, in effect, that their
time is
more valuable than mine?"
It's truly bizarre to me to have people volunteer to join a list
the purpose
of which is to help people do something they know about, then
complain about
doing the very thing they voluntarily chose to do.
I've said what I came to say. That's my last posting to the list on
this
subject. Any additional flames can be sent to me off-list and I'd
be happy
to respond, even to your autoresponder. :-)
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bayern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:29 AM
To: Craig Rairdin
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Simple-minded SPAM filters vs. list
participation
When someone asks a question, they should be open to receiving the
answers.
There is something very wrong about asking a question and then in
effect
stating, "I'll only listen to those who choose to fill out my
authentication
forms."
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