Brad, You're not alone. I get them too from Feroze. They piss me off and I refuse to send the reply. My software asks and I always say no.
Bruce Sunday, October 13, 2002, 5:33:45 PM, you wrote: BD> Feroze? Can I ask just one little thing? Not about your email contents, I BD> think they are fine. However, I do get the ever annoying 'sender wants a BD> read reciept' when you send the emails. Would it be too much to ask you to BD> turn that off? I haven't seen an comments from other members, so I don't BD> know if I'm the only one. I used to once upon a time use that feature, and BD> I found out that it just pissed off people. BD> Thanks, BD> Brad Dobo BD> ----- Original Message ----- BD> From: "Feroze Kistan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BD> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BD> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:24 PM BD> Subject: Re: Dumb computer question >> Servers are set to run all the time and many are never really switched BD> off, >> most of them have the same consumer drives you using. It only saves >> electricty though which isn't much anyway but you do over work the drive >> when you keep rebooting it often. >> >> BTW I use western digital drives, a 6.4 to boot and a 40GB for my work >> files. If my OS fails then I only have to format the 6.4 and reinstall BD> which >> takes 27 min's and both are NTFS format. Dosn't get corrupted and so far >> can't be virused. Everything important is backed to CDR and at 59 US cents >> each it beats any other media. >> >> ......my 2 cents >> >> Feroze >> >> On Monday, October 14, 2002 5:02 AM, William Robb >> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: >> > Hi; >> > My computer is set up to shut the hard drives off after a few >> > minutes of inactivity. >> > Is this a good thing, or should they run all the time? >> > Thanks >> > >> > William Robb >> > >> >> >>

