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From: buzzard@eng.umd.edu (Sean Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: High Schools on the Internet
Summary: apology
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.222254.11585@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 22:22:54 GMT
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In article <1990Apr10.165031.10513@eng.umd.edu> buzzard@eng.umd.edu (Sean Barrett) writes:
>In article <1990Apr8.173455.7844@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>>	Followup to /dev/null.  I only get alt.flame when cross-posted.
>>Gregory G. Woodbury
>[censored]
Ok.  Let me apologize to everybody.  That posting was inappropriate to
this place, and totally immature.

Mine, I mean.

The corrected message text is as follows:
>
> Excuse me?  Please don't waste my time crossposting to alt.flame if
> you're not going to read alt.flame.  Directing followups to /dev/nul
> is not a particularily mature way of carrying on conversations.
>
> Although maybe (*maybe*) more mature than using certain combinations
> of characters which for cultural reasons are considered distasteful.
>
But seriously, I most humbly offer my apologies for wasting time and
bandwidth, and for offending anyone.  Please also to excuse the length
of this message, since it has naught to do with tcp-ip.