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[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter about this matter.

Perhaps another way of looking at this is that __no one__ who 
bothers to respond to this list is likely to profit from the answer 
directly.

People attempt to answer questions for their own reasons, and using 
whatever resources (especially time) they have available.

In my case, I am simply not going to even read letters that are

. in HTML

. don't wrap sensibly, so the right margin is a hundred miles to the 
away from the left.

It is painful to scan these very long lines. As painful as looking for 
the logical breaks of thought in a paragraph lacking punctuation.

. are hard for me to understand, possibly because the writer is doing 
their best with a non native language. 

Obviously, I will be more tolerant in such cases but the fact remains 
that if I can't understand the question, I have no chance of answering 
it.

The document published by Greg Lehey at 

http://www.lemis.com/questions.html

contains suggestions for writers to increase the likelihood of getting 
positive results to questions.

Although it's targetted at those wishing to write to FreeBSD-Questions, 
I think the advice is generally applicable,

So to sum up, my view is that there is no need to get excited about 
badly written letters. Such letters are less likely to be answered and 
the writers will seek other means of obtaining what they want.

</rant>

Yours sincerely.


-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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