Re: New to pbem

From: Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza>

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:02:31 +0000

____     On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:16:06 +0200
\__/___  Enno Rehling ran through the
 LI-\o-' streets of rec.games.pbm
     |   waving an axe and screaming:
    / \
>Bateau wrote:
>> I'm new too. I'm not really interested in traditional PBMs.
>
>Okay, then let's start by giving you some general advice: Make sure the
>amount of garbage vs. content of our mails is high. Ascii Art signatures
>are a sure way to land in people's killfile. That thing with the axe is
>even worse. And excessive quoting on top of that... Your previous
>posting (the one that you sent to every newsgroup out there, complaining
>that people were crossposting) had 5 lines of quotation, 14 lines of
>junk and 2 lines of content (which happened to be off-topic). Wrong.

I don't remember complaining about cross posting. When was that?

Also, everyone knows that stuff is more of a tradtional complaint than a
real one. None of that stuff REALLY annoys anyone except cranky old men
who like to complain. If you had a VALID complaint you would have said
why exactly any of it was bad instead of just labelling it.
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References

New to pbem
"mike. buckley" <mike@toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk>
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:05:30 +0000
Re: New to pbem
Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza>
Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:39:50 +0000
Re: New to pbem
Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>
Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:16:06 +0000

Referenced By

New to pbem
"mike. buckley" <mike@toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk>
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:05:30 +0000
Re: New to pbem
Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza>
Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:39:50 +0000
Re: New to pbem
Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>
Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:16:06 +0000