Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Question for smart people Message-ID: <2887@splut.conmicro.com> Date: 13 Sep 89 07:15:43 GMT References: <4118@buengc.BU.EDU> <3003@ur-cc.UUCP> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 17 In article <3003@ur-cc.UUCP> news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Network News) writes: >>55 days and nineteen hops. Just to get from Rutgers to BU. Must be a record. > No, the article being replied to was reposted 49 days later by tropix. >We, the Western NY news administrators, have tried to educate this site and >have apparently failed. So, flames to tropix!root and don't spare the gasoline. What, exactly, is tropix doing to cause these old netnews articles from hell to reappear long after they should have gone to their reward? If you've tried to educate him into being a good neighbor and have failed, why is he still connected? -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- "The unkindest thing you can do for a hungry man is to give him food." - RAH