...then please destroy your Reply-To:.
Elliot Dierksen
[description of reply-to fixes deleted]
|But please don't complain about getting mailed responses when you
|haven't even done anything about stopping them.
Karl,
I once posted a job ad for a fried with a Reply-To: header of
'NO-EMAIL-REPLIES' and some damn fool still mailed me his resume!!! Reminds
me of the old test that says 'Do nothing until you have finished reading the
instructions'. Some of us at least try to solve our own problems!! :-)
EBD
--
Elliot Dierksen "Religion & Sex are Powerplays. Manipulate the people for
Money they pay. Selling Skin, Selling God. The Numbers
look the same on their Credit Cards" -- Queensryche
W) e...@ralph.fang.att.com 407-660-3377 H) ell...@alfred.UUCP 407-290-9744
John_Fereira
><disconcerted mumble>
>
>Someone stridently objects:
> Please send your resume to the address at the bottom of this post.
> Please DO NO email resumes to the return address of this post! All
> emailed resumes will go directly to /dev/null!
>
>Someone else disclaims:
> [[Note: I am posting this for someone else. DO NOT send electronic
> resumes to me. If you do, they will be discarded.]]
>
>A pox on your firstborn for making such comments without first solving
>your own technical problem.
>
Karl, you assume that everyone running software for posting to
this group has the capability for editing headers. Some of the news
readers and "notes" don't have that capability. That technical
problem may be inherent in the software people are using.
>Reply-To: now...@nada.com
>Reply-To: /dev/null
>Reply-To: that.other...@legitimately.should.get.responses
>Reply-To: postmaster
What if that other person does not have net access. Seems to me
if someone is looking for a job that might just be a pretty good
possibility.
Mail to this account will most likely bounce as I am leaving the
company and the account will no longer be valid.
RE: #4 mailing to the postmaster
>which will surely cause such people to get a fast education
>from said postmaster on when NOT to reply to Usenet articles.
Why should they do that when you're here to educate us?
--
John Fereira
john%hp-...@hplabs.hp.com or jo...@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com
"Is that *all* you ever think about"?
Bill Foote
>In article <KARL.90Oc...@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl_kl...@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>[description of reply-to fixes deleted]
>|But please don't complain about getting mailed responses when you
>|haven't even done anything about stopping them.
>
>
>'NO-EMAIL-REPLIES' and some damn fool still mailed me his resume!!! Reminds
>me of the old test that says 'Do nothing until you have finished reading the
>instructions'. Some of us at least try to solve our own problems!! :-)
>
Some of us are at places that use bonehead versions of rn that are too
stupid to use the "Reply-to:" header (like this little backwater known
of as "UC Berkeley"), so I'm not surprised that someone figured out the
return path anyway... I'm in the habit of figuring out return paths.
Of course, people _should_ have the consideration (and intelligence!)
to respect requests like "don't e-mail me". Employers _should_ have
the consideration and intelligence to follow the stylistic recommendations
that get posted every once in awhile, but how many of them are actually
clever enough to indicate where a potential job is _in_the_subject_line_,
where it belongs? Maybe 50%?
My point is this: railing at these fools does little good. In this
imperfect world, all we can do is grin, bear it, and keep handy a
well-oiled "n" key.
Bill Foote
dont_rep...@nowhere.iceland.fnord