Zone On the Range

[Trei, Peter]

Jim's been pinged on this many, many times. He used to include
tens of kilobytes of HTML pages with his postings, but at least he's 
gotten over that.

I've come to the conclusion that Jim is unable to see things
from another's viewpoint, and so regards it a bad trade to spend
30 seconds of his own time to save man-hours of wasted effort
by his readers.

The result, of course, is that he becomes progressively less effective
at communication, as more and more people tune him out due to
the low value of his postings.

Adam: Jim regards unsolicited private email as a personal affront,
and gets crabby about it. 

Peter Trei
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"J.A. Terranson" <measl at mfn.org> writes:
>Hey Jim, why don't you just forward the whole damn site?

> Adam Back[SMTP:adam at cypherspace.org] writes:
> 
> This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your
> subject line.  Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your
> own summary, or something?
> 
> If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not useful; it's
> just
> a random pointer.  Historically most of them are not even remotely crypto
> related.
> 
> I asked politely in private email if you would consider providing
> summaries. 
> I received no reply.  If you aren't going to provide summaries and
> meaningful subject lines, I politely ask that you stop sending the list
> random URLs.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:28:14PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.foxnews.com/politics/032601/golfcourse_kehnemui_shuster.sml