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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette?
Message-ID: <10163@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 23 Nov 89 05:18:12 GMT
References: <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com>
Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
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In an article, jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) wrote:
>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.

The poster should have rephrased it to avoid offending touchy people.

Say "send mail to me and I'll summarize to the net", which is really the
right thing to do when posting an inquiry.  If you don't ever post the
summary, you've lied.  If you do post the summary, you've done The
Right Thing according to Usenet protocol.  In either case, you don't
have to read all the blather in the newsgroup, and you have an instant
litmus test as to the intelligence of the people responding to your
inquiry - the ones who post the answer anyway are obviously too stupid
to understand the concept of summarized responses.
	- Brian
				"Reality is harsh, eh monkey boy?"