Re: [cobalt-users] Mexican ISP + RaQ3 = Aye Caramba!

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/16/00 10:38 AM, Dom Latter at d.latter@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Kris Dahl wrote:
>> 
>> Honestly, Don, I could give a Rat's ass about long posts.
> 
> DoM, please!

That was a honest typo... I apologize.

> It says "*my* time is more important than *your* time".

Ahh... My time *is* more important than your time.  :)

> It is the email equivalent of putting the phone down on someone
> without first saying good bye: save a couple of seconds of *your*
> time and to hell with being polite.

Interesting analogy.  I hate those people.

> My concern is for the long-term.  Experience shows that if you
> ignore it, or always take it to email, as some suggest, the
> usability of the list plummets.  And it's very hard not to appear
> petty.  If I knew a way, I'd go for it.

Well.. I get massively annoyed at HTML posts, but they seem to slap you in
the face, where long posts, I just don't even notice.

To each his own.

Now if anyone can come up with some intelligent agent software that formats
everything perfectly.

Along those lines, Is there any email clients that actually have decent
threading for mailing list traffic?

-k