On Friday 11 February 2011 19:27:15 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/11/2011 10:50 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests and > > quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show up > > all over again in the next digest). > > It could be worse, and it has been. About fifteen years ago, I was on a > mailing list that was misconfigured. This became clear when somebody > signed up with the wrong email address and all messages from the list > bounced. The default was to send out digests unless and until you > changed your settings, and all bounces went to the list itself. > > Each digest bounced, causing a new digest to be sent containing the > previous digest plus whatever had come in since the last. Not only > that, it decided that these "mega-digests" had to go out to everybody, > including the vast majority of us who didn't want digests. Now, add to > that the fact that over 90% of us were on Dial-Up at the time. > > As I said, "It could be worse." While the points made are all true, I'd like to point out that the original message was actually intended to be helpful to others. After such a reception, he probably won't bother next time. Why is it that some people on this list think it clever to publicly humiliate? Gentle reminders off-list are so much more effective. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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