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From: dente@els.uucp (Colin Dente)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Enough is enough
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Date: 20 Aug 89 23:58:08 GMT
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In article <15113@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jarvis@northstar.dartmouth.edu (Mark Alexander Robinson) writes:
>I will not be posting to or reading news.newusers.questions anymore.  This may
>not be considered a great loss to anyone; it is certainly no loss to me.
>
>In the past week, I have been flamed unnecessarily, both through net mail and
>through the news system, for asking what I considered a very valid question,
>and which no one seems to have a specific answer for.

Right shitheads - you've done it now - thanks to your highly useful 
contributions to this group in the form of flames, both public, and 
(apparently) private you have succeeded in scaring off our first reader.

REMEMBER - this group is the place for new users (and, for that matter, old
users) to come to ask questions.  If you can give a reasonable,
informed reply to a question, then by all means post it; if you just
feel like exercising your ego by flaming some poor innocent - then
just fuck off will you? 

At the moment, I'm archiving every posting to this group in order to
compile the 'list of commonly asked questions' at some time in the
future.  Of the 76 articles in my archive, 17 are about .signature
files, and a high proportion of them are flames.  THIS IS ENOUGH.

I would NOT want to see n.n.q become a moderated group for many
reasons, but unless we cut the flames, it's going to have to happen if
the group is to remain useful.

>If I cannot get a rational answer to a simple question, why bother asking? 

Says it all, really.

If you're here to ask a question, fine.
If you're here to give a rational answer, fine.
If you're here to flame.... well, I've used enough obscenities in this
article already.



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