Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>
> Boy, where to start? I guess the first thing to point out is that my
>viewpoint
> will be based on criteria different than that of the other 450 folks on this
> list. Sure, it would be *great* if I could amble into my office on Monday
> morning, plop down in the chair, mug of buzz-bean juice in hand, and simply
> say "Computer, show me mail of interest."
>
> It doesn't work that way, not yet.
>
> The way it DOES work is that the roughly 3 dozen email lists run from here
>have,
> at the moment, 1,019 error messages, roughly 6.5 megabytes, that need my
> attention. People have the notion that "Hey, this is the Internet, there's no
> need to be an intelligent, considerate human being!"
>
> So chumps like me end up wading through tons of droppings that the Clueless
> Mouse Pilots (C.M.P.) have left behind, in their quest to be cute, funny,
> obnoxious or whatever. There are some rudimentary filters in place to keep
> out those who want to dump a multi-meg image in your inbox, in a format you
> may not even recognize, or who spend zero time and intelligence trimming down
> the material they quote from a previous meesage, or think that everyone on the
> planet has the same hardware and software they do and really wants to see the
> latest cool attachment they came up with. Mail from non-members, those who
> tack on those stupid Microsoft addendums, or send out messages with HTML
> formatting have to wait until I get around to dealing with this sort of cruft
> before their words of, uh, wisdom, make it to the list. And a lot of them end
> up getting tossed in the bit bucket rather than having the drivel from some
> C.M.P. inflicted upon the innocent members of the mailing list.
>
> And yes, the vintage-race list is a nice, quiet, low-volume list compared to
> some of the really active ones. Count your blessings.
>
> mjb.
... Don't hold back; tell us how you REALLY feel ...
*8o)
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