On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Aldo Foot wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram
><[email protected]> wrote:
><snip>
>
>>>> Since when being formal and polite is ridiculous. You may want to
>>>> consider cultural diversity before replying with what could be construed
>>>> as offensive comments.
>>>
>>> I have no problem with being polite. I just think that the language was
>>> a bit excessive.
>>
>> I understand it looks odd to you but it is a cultural difference
>> primarily.
>>
>> Rahul
>
>The cultural difference is already shown by the way the OP addresses
>the intended audience: "Respected Sir/Madam". And he got hammered
>in return because of the lack of understanding of how things work in
>his world.
>The world is not the same outside our borders. There are many countries
>were the resources are not as readily available as they are for us.
>
>~af
I would also interject here that the "Respected Sir/Madam" bit is a plus point
for spam as its used the most often as the greeting in a phishing or 419
message. Some of those are so plainly so that they get drug-n-dropped into
my spam folder, to be used as training for sa-learn -spam that I run daily
with cron. I have to admit I was reaching for the mouse when the rest of the
message finally registered.
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Are of imagination all compact...
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