[1533] in peace2
Re: A note on etiqutte [was Re: Mines...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quin Murrell)
Mon Mar 4 20:46:08 2002
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:45:45 -0500
To: George S Waksman <waksman@mit.edu>, Nida Rizwan Farid <farida@mit.edu>
From: Quin Murrell <quinmurr@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@mit.edu>, Sanjay Basu <sanjayb@mit.edu>,
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Stop Whining
At 08:43 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, George S Waksman wrote:
>So, this e-mail marks the fourth in this thread which has been mailed
>to, what I assume is, a very large portion of the MIT undergraduate
>community and for this I appologize, but it brings up a few important
>points.
>
>First, it's irritating when people send e-mails for their pet causes
>(I am not judging the cause, just the means of publicity) to a large
>number of people. Not everyone wants to be told how they can help
>clean up landmines. Regardless of how strongly you feel about
>something, it is very discourteous to impose your views on others,
>especially in an impersonal mass mailing.
>
>Secondly, a collection of 9 different (very large) mailing lists is
>not a forum for discussion (I understand this is somewhat hypocritical
>and for this I appologize). One mass mailing is pretty bad; a reply to
>the entire group is even worse. A third e-mail is almost inexcuseable,
>and if I were talking about landmines this e-mail would be even more
>unacceptable than it already is.
>
>In conclusion, don't send people (like me) your fucking e-mails unless
>you know me or I have chosen to put myself on a mailing list that your
>message applies to (and last I checked dorm discussion lists are not a
>forum for recruiting help for your campus-wide pet cause).
>
>And, in case any of you are wondering why I have chosen to e-mail
>everyone in the manner I have been criticizing, it is because I don't
>want to receive e-mails for __any__ pet causes. If I only sent this
>the initial offenders they might show more restraint but there would
>still be many people that might miss the point and continue to send
>other people (like me) unsolicited e-mails.
>
>-George Waksman
