I will not!

Don't worry Renato, we all get them. The best thing to do is just reply and move on to the next.

I know how you feel Renato, and I agree. Not replying is appropriate for the demanding tone a lot of emails have. Communication skills are a pretty basic part of social interaction. A complete lack of common courtesy and manners in a personal email requesting help from another person doesn't warrant a response at all.

You're not wrong, Renato....it can be a pain at best, and an insult at worst...

I've had a couple of "to the point" requests, and always my answer was also quite straght to the point:
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no.

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I usually receive a truck full of insults after that, which I then choose to ignore and add the sender to my "Junk Mail Senders list".

I still get a 'You should do your skin for StylesXP cos Windows Blinds is crap' e-mail about once or twice a day. You can imagine my response to those...

[Response from grayhaze].....

"Get it right, you twirp....it's 'WindowBlinds'"...

Or is it 'twerp'?....

twerp.. most definitely :]

grayhaze :: wow.. that's nuts. it's hard to believe somebody would get so worked up about it to actually send you something like that. twisted

Politeness is sometimes indeed a "town in Russia" (damn hard to find or unknown)
But just the other day some guy kept "banging" the LOS IRC channel to get in touch with me. ((ever heard of email Will?!) ) Finally he get hang of me and asked me with quite alot of "pleases" (not too many though), if I could do a smaller resolution of one of my HvD themes.
But anyways.... who can turn down a polite request like that?!

So all hail to the polite requesters!

Fortunately, I've been lucky up to now, everyone has been very polite when asking for help. But I probably just jinxed that for myself. I would agree with treetog, rudeness deserves nothing but rudeness.

I've had several interesting emails from various 'kids' asking for one thing or another...

I even had this email from a Counter-Strike Clan member who said I had to " Make him a new CS logo for his clan within 12 hours or he would stop visiting my site daily ".

Where the hell do these people come from?

To jcg....
Gimme..gimme...gimme...and I want it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!...

Yes, Hell...I stopped visiting....

damn... I knew it!

No logo for you sunny

I've only had a few requests/questions. I must say that from the few I've recieved all of them have been very polite.....lucky me I guess

I can totally agree with treetog not answering emails that are rude, or lack manners. It should be common sense to use manners when asking for a 'favour' from somebody, whether it's you best friend or a complete stranger.

that's strange???
I get nothing but Love in my mail box...

But you're 'lovable', Doreen...

I agree with Renato. Thank you very much.

I have same problem, tons of email saying I want this and that but no please on major of them. It's already hard to reply to so many emails everyday, you should not answer to those kind.

Let me introduce ya'll with Mr [Del]. Give him a rub from time to time and your life will be so much more pleasant.

People forget their manners sometimes when they get in front of the computer.