Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

The person I complained about a few days ago did write back. He said that he did not attach images. (Okay, maybe he didn't mean to, but they wound up attached anyhow, unless someone cracked my password and edited my mail spool after his message arrived, just to make him look bad.)

Unfortunately he also had the gall to write:

"but as a point of information - a whole new generation of internet users have begun using this thing called the world wide web... amazing as it may seem, these people regularly communicate with each other sending and receiving text, music, pictures and video."

This, of course, ticked me off. First, does it mean he's one of the new generation of Internet users who believes that the World Wide Web is the Internet, rather than being just one service that uses the Internet? Second, where does he get off lecturing me in that tone of voice after I suggested that perhaps he'd meant to post a pointer to a web page instead of attached binaries -- what, I can say that but not know about the Web? Third, the fact that you can send images, sound, and video over email does not mean that it's polite to send large files to strangers unexpectedly.

At this point it appears (as far as I can tell from this end of the wire) that the initial problem was his use of a web browser instead of a proper mail client, and that his browser didn't do what he thought he was telling it to do. But his responding that he "did not do that" and assuming I'm net.clueless, without bothering to check whether or not he'd actually sent what he thought he'd sent, rather bothered me. If he didn't do it, why do I have one GIF and one JPG attached to his message?