On Thursday 20 January 2005 7:52 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 January 2005 7:44 pm, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> >>Luke-Jr wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 20 January 2005 7:31 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> >>>>By the way Linda,
> >>>
> >>>Who? I'm not sure where Ciaran translated "don't" ("...tell me what my
> >>>name is") into "please do"
> >>>
> >>>>turn off your damn email notification crap. I don't care if you want
> >>>> to know if I read your mail.
> >>>
> >>>Then don't send notification. It's just requested, not required. If your
> >>>mail program can't handle that, I suggest KMail.
> >>
> >>Turn it off. This is great annoyance, and is impolite, in regards to
> >> list.
> >
> > I don't use a different program specifically for mailing lists. I might
> > be willing to go out of my way to turn it off manually when I send to the
> > list, if it were a polite request, but demands are even moreso impolite
> > and don't get the same treatment.
>
> How would you like it if everyone signed up for the list sent a reply
> each time you sent a mail with this request? I'd wager you would turn
> that crap off *real* quickly in that case. Hundreds of emails saying
> "yes I read your worthless mail" can't be a good thing.
Actually, I would probably procmail them...
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