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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Posting Messages That Aren't Responses
Summary: nit-picking
Message-ID: <48213@bbn.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 21:14:21 GMT
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Reply-To: mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard)
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r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady) writes:
>You also can post a new article from the operating system (i.e., shell)
>command level, with the "pnews" program.  Just type the command
>      pnews
>and it will prompt you for newsgroup(s), subject, etc.

This seems like a good time to remind folks not to assume that the rest
of the UNIX boxes in the world are configured like theirs.

For example, the above suggestion would produce the following result on
my machine:

  pnews: Command not found.

Every response in this newsgroup comes with an implict "This works on my
system, but you'll have to try it yourself or check with your sysadmin."

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