[plug][OT] Bret Busby: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bret Busby wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:16:17 +0800 (WST)
> From: Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug][OT] Bret Busby: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:15:55 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, John Knight wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:35:25 +0800
> > From: John Knight <anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
> > Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: [plug][OT] Bret Busby: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> > Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:41:47 +0800 (WST)
> > Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > 
> > Apologies to other pluggers, but I'm trying to get in touch with Bret Busby, 
> > and an email I sent quite some time ago  has just bounced back with a 
> > failure. Would you be able to contact me offlist from an alternate email 
> > addy please (not bubsy.net)?
> > 
> > Tah. :)
> > 
> > Make lunch, not war.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I am replying to the list for a number of reasons.
> 
> One, is that my email address will be in the From address, and it is 
> usually a good idea, to use a From address in an email, for a To address 
> in a new email, and thus, avoid typo's, reulting in what happened here.
> 
> The second, is that this is one result of typo's, which are abundant on 
> the list, and it shows good reason why people should proof read emails 
> before sending; especially where the sender of a message types in the To 
> address and gets a bounce due to incorrectly typing the To address, like 
> an incorrectly typed URL -> "Not Found" (I have made both errors, in the 
> past).
> 
> The third, reason, is that my name is Busby, NOT bubsy!@##
> 
> The funny thing, John, is that you had solved the problem yourself, in 
> the message that you sent. This is a good example of the need for 
> proof-reading. Have a good look at what you typed, both in the subject 
> line, and in the paragrapgh, for the spellings of my name, and, you will 
> see what I mean.
> 
> Once again, this is good justification, for reading what we send, before 
> we send it...
> 
> :)
> 
> 

Oh, and I trust that you will not think that I am having a go at you, 
or, being overly self-righteous. There is an important point here; the 
need for checking what we write, before we send.

One particular example, that comes to mind, is that I suddenly realised, 
a couple of years ago, a result of not checking what gets sent.

I was sending emails to a lecturer at school. Let's call him Fred. When 
I send an email, I usually start with Hello, <name>.

With typo's, and, without checking, what I was sending to the lecturer, 
started the message, with

Hell, Fred.

When I suddenly realised what I had been sending, I had to apologise 
rather rapidly.

So, once again, we do need to check what we write, before we send it, 
as, apart from something like that, some messages become almost 
illegible, with grammatical and spelling errors, especially some on 
this list.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, 1988
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