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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: B&W X grapphics subsystems
Keywords: come clean
Message-ID: <15440@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 2 May 90 02:23:32 GMT
References: <1990Apr27.004437.8893@virtech.uucp> <1990Apr27.162313.4760@ico.isc.com> <42@grumbly.UUCP> <1990Apr29.152804.21925@chinet.chi.il.us> <4121@infmx.UUCP> <59@grumbly.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <59@grumbly.UUCP> root@grumbly.UUCP (rb duc) writes:
>Believe it or not Alan, there were a number of people a few weeks ago who
>were confused by the name comp.unix.i386.  Do you read every piece of
>documentation you get?  

The purpose of the newsgroup is explained both in the
news.announce.newusers postings, and in the 'newsgroups' file
distributed with B news.  Nobody reads EVERY scrap of documentation, but
news.announce.newusers is the FIRST thing everyone ought to read before
posting.  Even then, nobody can memorize every newsgroup, but when the
question of a SPECIFIC group's purpose comes up, the reference document
is the FIRST thing people should check.  There is no excuse.

If "a number of people" (I'm thinking of a certain VERY SMALL number
here ;-) ) got the message the last few weeks, that's good news.