Fellow mongrelians, forgive a slightly off-topic rant; my hope is that it can lead to a better world.
In the past few months, I have seen an increase in "anonymous" questions on this list, "anonymous" in the sense that the sender names do not resemble real human names, and also in the sense that the messages have not been signed. Just today, we have seen "Geek Moth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" and "gmail < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>", neither of whom signed their questions.[1] In the past months, there have been many more. Of course, each individual may have good reason not to disclose his or her name and affiliation, but they don't say so. And frankly, I'm not terribly inclined to help someone who doesn't introduce himself and doesn't greet me or say goodbye at the end of his message. In fact, unless you all tell me that I'm a sour old git, I will not answer anonymous pleas for help in the future.[2] It might be that my reaction is more anti-social than their lack of manners (as I perceive it), but at least I'm not making people cranky by shutting up. My ceasing to answer anonymous questions won't lead to a huge dip in the traffic on this list, of course, but perhaps others have already reacted in the same way, and we are missing a lot of good traffic already. What do you think? Best regards, /David [1] I don't feel that I'm pointing fingers here, because I can't see whom I am pointing at.
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