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From: jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette?
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 19:50:20 GMT
Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler)
Organization: Algorists, Inc.
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From a article in comp.lang.c (no need to identify which):

> Please mail replys to one of the addresses below - I can no longer
> afford the time to wade through all of comp.lang.c.

I see this sort of thing all the time and it irritates me terribly.
This person finds the bandwidth in comp.lang.c too much, but adds to
it in a way that benefits nobody but himself.  Others following
comp.lang.c will (if he gets his way) see only his message and the
replies will (he hopes) go straight to him.

Do others feel this to be a breach of etiquette?

I think a proper response is to send E-mail to posters like this
saying these postings occupy that same bandwidth they already find
intolerably crowded, contribute nothing and should not be made.  I am
reluctant to do this until I have a "sense of the net" that my
feelings are generally shared.
-- 

Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
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