Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!rayssd!galaxia!dave From: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: Too much cross-posting? Message-ID: <704@galaxia.Newport.RI.US> Date: 10 Jul 89 22:32:31 GMT References: <674@whizz.uucp> <240@gnosys.UUCP> <1989Jul7.052540.7258@eci386.uucp> <20239@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) Organization: Dave's Very Own Personal System Lines: 33 In article Bob Sutterfield writes: >In article <20239@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: > ...over 85% of the UNIXPC owners/users are unable to receive the > unix-pc.* newsgroups. > >Bushwa! They may be unwilling, but they're certainly not unable. >Anyone who would like a unix-pc feed can have one for the asking. >Drop me a line. I have said this before and I'll say it again, I will give a unix-pc.* feed to anyone that asks. I am even willing to pay for the phone call, provided of course that I don't get requests from every UNIX-PC owner in the US (my telephone budget does have a limit, albeit a very generous one). One of the problems that many UNIX-PC owners have in regards to getting the news is that their pc's are not connected to dedicated phone lines. If your pc is trying to make a data call and your wife (or husband) picks up the phone, she is likely to get upset. It is even worse if someone is on the phone already when the pc tries to make a call. Some of these problems can be alleviated by restricting the calling times for the pc so that it only makes calls in the middle of the night. This does not, however, solve the problem of being able to accept incoming calls. I know that my wife would be upset if the computer started answering the phone, even if it only did it in the middle of the night. "What if my mother has an emergency and needs to get hold of us?" Anyway, if you want a unix-pc.* feed and are either able to accept an incoming call or are willing to call Rhode Island, drop me a line and we'll set something up. -- David H. Brierley Home: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US {rayssd,xanth,lazlo,mirror,att}!galaxia!dave Work: dhb@rayssd.ray.com {sun,uunet,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhb