Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!jarthur!aqdata!sullivan From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette? Message-ID: <1989Nov22.231056.8952@aqdata.uucp> Date: 22 Nov 89 23:10:56 GMT References: <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com> Organization: aQdata, Inc. Western Region -- San Dimas, CA Lines: 17 From article <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com>, by jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler): > 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 or no. Either way, I would like to distinguish the "don't want to read this group" postings from the "can't read this group" postings. For the unaware, not all sites get a complete news feed. -- Michael Sullivan uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan aQdata, Inc. aqdata!sullivan@jarthur.claremont.edu San Dimas, CA