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Subject:RE: And you wonder why people lurk... From:"Stevenson, Rebecca" <Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:38:27 -0400
A fine strategy. However, one can't then accuse the writer of the unread message of trolling. I hope...?
Rebecca Stevenson
nothing to see here
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Carnall [mailto:jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:31 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: And you wonder why people lurk...
When the return address makes me suspect that the message will not be of any
value, why should I read it at all? Life is too short to waste it on reading
things that are neither useful nor enjoyable. (Yes, yes, I'm thinking up
your book list!)
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