On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM Jay F. Shachter <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a very active mailing list. This is partly because there is > an astonishingly large number of messages posted to it that are > neither informative, nor entertaining, to, I would estimate, > approximately 99% of its readership.
False. > Second of all, and more to the point, publicly insulting people who > post to this mailing list is not a productive use of your time, and -- > even more to the point -- reading postings to this mailing list that > publicly insult people who have made other postings to this mailing > list, and that say nothing else, is not a productive use of my time. Your verbose and patronizing post has wasted more time (and bytes) than the sum of all replies in the thread you mention - a thread easily ignored by any competent email client, unless of course someone starts a new thread on the same topic. > None of the other > postings to this mailing list that were made in reply to the original > posting contributed anything useful. I enjoyed them, that's useful. > Please remember that other people do not think that you are as clever > as you think you are -- and this is true of everyone, even if you are > Einstein or Goethe -- and even if you are as clever as you think you > are, no one cares. With one exception apparently.
