Path: utzoo!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Unofficial Re^n Patch for B News 2.11
Message-ID: <3834@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 13:19:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.3834
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sfreed@tesla.unm.edu (Steve Freed) writes:
[...]If you are going to write anybody, then write the systems
>administrator or at least someone who can actually do something
>about it. The poor user will probably have no idea what you are talking
>about.

  If you say what's wrong, the user can forward the mail message to
her administator. If you copy the recent program, however, all that will
happen is that my mail filter will return-to-sender (:-)).

  Seriously, though, a nice wordy message saying what's wrong and
where to look for the corrections is always usefull.  In many case
the recipient will volunteer to do minor fixes!

--dave
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