On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 6:04 PM 8/21/96, Gary Howland wrote:
Often I'll ask a stupid question too ("Does your software work in France?"). If more people did this, then they'd have to choose their victims a bit more carefully in the future (assuming of course they're trying to sell something).
As I said in my last message, I don't even do this--I just bounce it back to them. I see no need to "ask questions" (such as "Does it work in France?") to, perhaps, "establish legitimacy." If they sent it to me, I can send it back. Simple.
I think that the purpose of asking a question is to consume _more_ of their time. If they read it, they have to decide if and how to respond. Cousme more of their resources. It might even be interesting to write a script that automatically inserts a silly question (like "does it work in france") and mails it back with the single stroke of a key. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com