Path: utzoo!censor!dybbuk!yunexus!gall
From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette?
Message-ID: <5366@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 20:21:42 GMT
References: <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com>
Reply-To: gall@yunexus.UUCP
Organization: York University   Department of Philosophy
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jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:

| 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.
| Do others feel this to be a breach of etiquette?

yes, I do...

| 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.

I don't think it terribly rude to post a message, say, on a freind's
account, then say that you don't have net access--then direct replies
to your own address (the one that has no news access)

But Why should I have to look at your crap asking for special privs
when the info you ask for might benefit others?

nrg

-- 
"Philosophy is not the underlabourer of the sciences but rather their
tribunal; it adjudicates not the truth of scientific theorizing, but
the sense of scientific propositions."  -- PMS Hacker