Path: utzoo!censor!dybbuk!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!neon!Gang-of-Four!weening From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette? Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 89 19:55:01 GMT References: <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com> Sender: USENET News System Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com's message of 22 Nov 89 19:50:20 GMT In article <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com> 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. ... If the person had said: "please mail replies to me, and I'll summarize", the effect would be the same, but you'd probably not be irritated. So I just ignore these comments; they're harmless. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University