Please do not waste my time by responding

There are some things I will never understand.

Like, when you get an e-mail from an angry reader, who asks a lot of questions about content, lack of content, the presumed abduction of columnists, and then they say, "Please do not waste any more of my time by responding to this e-mail."

Like any good person, like any annoyed editor, I hit "reply" and began typing away. Why? Why would I do something a reader specifically requests that I do not do? Because, as I would say to said e-mailer, "You, sir, have just wasted my time. I feel it's only fair that I waste a little more of yours."

If you ask questions, expect answers. That's the nature of my business. I don't believe it not providing information to the public. That's what this is all about, right?

Let me save you a little of your time and a little of mine if you don't want me to respond to an e-mail: don't send one.

-- Taylor