Netiquette

When I recently cleaned out my folder of "Sent" emails, I discovered
12 informational emails I'd sent within the previous two weeks to
folks posting queries to mailing lists, none of whom bothered to
send a response thanking me for the help, or even acknowledging
receipt of my attempt to help.

This reflects the state of affairs as I perceive it these days on
mailing lists-- an expectation that list members are there to serve
one's own needs, period. Give me information; do this search for
me; look up things for me that I'm to lazy to web-search for.

There used to be a community of sharing and an attempt to learn that
prevailed on these lists that I no longer see. As a result, I now
have a policy that I no longer respond to ungrateful list members,
*even when I know I have information that will definitely help
them.*

What prompted this soapbox tirade? I almost responded to one of
those twelve posters *again*, but then changed my mind. Now read
the last sentence in the above paragraph again.

Just call me jaded,
Kathy
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish
and you feed him for life.

kql

Christopher Jahn...

No, it's:
"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach him how to
fish, and he'll waste the whole weekend doing it."

Carol Botteron...

How do we order jackets? :-}

My pet peeve is people who ask for help but have their edress
blocked, so that (after you do the lookup they asked for) you have
to fill out a form to beg permission to help them.

Three words for these folx: For. Get. It.

Carol B.

Carol Botteron

Steve Hayes...

Not in the post-Thatcher universe, where all the fishponds have
signs saying "Private property: no fishing".