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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
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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
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