Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ccieng2.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Did you answer the mail you received this morning? Message-ID: <117@ccieng2.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 11:33:44 EST Article-I.D.: ccieng2.117 Posted: Mon Feb 13 11:33:44 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:26:00 EST Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Rochester, NY Lines: 25 In general response to several person's complaints about my flame concerning answering one's mail, this letter arrived which I like rather a lot. I post it here anonymously for anyone's interest. It seems like a reasonable set of rules for when a response is not needed. 1) It is a letter answering a question I posted, and doesn't call for a response; 2) It is a totally negative and uninformed flame, that I don't feel like arguing about, as I've already stated my opinion on the net; 3) I'm so busy, that I just save the letter in a file, and then I forget about it until it's too late; 4) I read the mail when I'm too loaded to be doing it, and space it out (this is rare, but it has happened). Personally, I'm a little shaky about (3). I save my mail in a mail.to.do file, and my .login bothers me about it the next time I login; hence, I don't let myself forget it for too long. (4) is, of course, the unavoidable case: "Sorry, Ma, I forgot." (But there are a *lot* of people out there guilty of (4)!) -- Karl Kleinpaste ...![ [seismo, allegra]!rochester!ritcv, rlgvax]!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk