Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:36:19 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dicen@hooked.net Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User ppp not hanging up modem. Message-ID: <26779.851196979@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:06:23 GMT." <32BBC4AF.3F54BC7E@hooked.net>
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> Excure me? Every one has been posting to a bunch of lists. I have been > getting multiple emails from a lot of people. What is with you people? > Do you treat everyone with such disdain and a pompos attitude? Do you 1. We have simple rules about how to use our mailing list resources. These rules were adopted for very good reasons, primarily among them the fact that the people who must actually read and answer these emails are now receiving upwards of 800 emails a day. Even with the aggressive use of procmail, the volunteer support system is very fragile and would quickly break if everyone decided to stop obeying the basic rules of email etiquette at once. 2. People DO break those rules and, if we have time, we send them a note asking that they *please* not do so again in the future. In 99.99% of the cases, we get sheepish replies back about not having read the mailing list charters (under http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources:mail.html) or hitting the wrong button in netscape, and they don't do it again. 3. In this case, you responded to that request by defending your usage of multiple lists, giving every indication that you intended to continue doing so in the future. 4. In response to this, you left us with no alternative but to restate the message in stronger terms, having clearly not understood the extent to which we hold our basic rules of usage to be important. There is no general trend of "disdain" or "pomposity" at work here, this is simply a situation which has been aggrevated beyond any justification by your unwillingness to comply with our simplest and most reasonable policies. If there is any errant behavior to be flagged here, it is yours. Jordan
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