On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:55:54 +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>> Colin Watson writes:
>> > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating
>> > the Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to
>> > "challenges".
>>
>> And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to "challenges".
> Why?
Because we chose not to? Because we have objections in
principle to people offloading their spam fighting effort to innocent
correspondents? Because I have better things to do than to beg and
plead for my answers to be heard by people who asked for help in the
first place?
> If you send mail directly to a person, off-list, in private, why not
> respond to his challenge? In any decent MUA, you just have to hit
> 'r'.
Right. Just like you just have to hit `d' in order to not read
spam. Not an effort I am interested in undertaking -- the fact that I
bothered to reply is often about as much altruism I am willing to
indulge in.
manoj
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