On 11 Jan 2005 at 23:37, Owain Sutton wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Of course, if you don't check email at least once a day, you might > > as well not be using email. > > Again, you're expecting everybody to use email in a particular way. > And yes, I'm online plenty, but I'll still occassionally need to > dash off an email before disappearing for the rest of the day. No > chance of that, if everybody uses a challenge/response system.
If the person on the receiving end is getting 100s of spam messages a day, you're not likely to get through to them, anyway. A challenge/response system at least gives your message a chance. > > I don't understand the indignant attitude of the people > > *initiating* the communication -- if you want to contact someone, > > why get in a hissy fit over a challenge/response system, the whole > > purpose of which is to insure that the recipient > > The challenge system is just plain rude. It's like making a phone > call, asking for John, and being met with "Who wants to know?" While that particular wording may be rude, I don't at all think it's rude to ask "who may I say is calling?" and if they won't say, then suddenly realizing that the desired party is too busy to take a call right now. No one has an absolute right to reach me in person via telephone, nor an absolute right to put a message in my email inbox. What I consider to be remarkably rude is the attitude that you *do* have that right, and that's the only interpretation I can give to the indignation over challenge/response systems. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
