Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:21:05 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	gripinc AT hotmail DOT com
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: TC++ syntax?
In-Reply-To:	<34d10252.13611988@n5.supernews.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980129111952.6822O-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Neither wrote:

> >P.S.:  It's extremely impolite to hide your email address if you want
> >people to be able to reply to you.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't know it was impolite to hide my address, but I hope
> that this will be aparent without allowing spam in.

It is impolite (to say the least) because it means that to you, your
mailbox is more precious than the mailboxes of those who are trying to
help you.  If people like John Aldrich, Nate Eldredge and others who
make this forum shine with its user support would care about spam as
much as you do, they would never post a single message, and you won't
be having this help.  The fact that they do post a lot should serve as
evidence that the spam is not as bad as it might look.

Please also keep in mind that people who reply to lots of messages
cannot afford reading all the headers to detect anti-spammed addresses
and delete them when they reply.  Fake addresses make the replies
bounce, which wastes bandwidth and annoys people (some of use need to
pay for the mail we get by volume).  Since all you need to do with
spam is to press that "Delete" button after seeing the subject, do you
still think avoiding it is worth all this trouble into which you are
dragging all the good souls here?

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