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From: tea6219@evtprp0b.UUCP (Terry E. Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: .SYS Files
Message-ID: <168@evtprp0b.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 16:58:02 GMT
References: <1990Jul2.010333.268@xrtll.uucp> <90184.125712JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> <200@sc2a.unige.ch>
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In article <200@sc2a.unige.ch> fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) writes:
>
>I'm tired of these perfectly useless postings!
>
>I wonder if you realise the number of people that will actually have to read
>your message?  If you did, you would (I hope) avoid to publish your misunder-
>standing of the meaning of the posting you were `following up' to, as well as
>your wild guesses of `possiblie solutions'!
>
>Your readers will fall into at least two categories:
>
>1) those who will know that you don't know what you're talking about (they
>   should simply skip your posting),
>2) those who will think ``hey, that's a good thing to know!'' (before seeing
>   your magnificient `... but I can't swear to it', that is.)  The day they
>   will try to use your beautiful `undocumented feature', they will find out
>   it doesn't work.
>
>To both categories, your message has been useless and time-consuming.
>
>
>Markus Fischer     ---       fisher@sc2a.unige.ch or fisher@cgeuge52.bitnet

Whoa!  Ease up Markus!  This person is trying to be helpful.  Remember, your
comments are directed toward a living person, not just a keyboard!  Anyway,
a lot of good ideas come from people who "weren't positive" about their
usefulness.  If I post a problem on the net, I would much rather get a great
number of comments, some of which may be incorrect (because the person
didn't have the time to verify it) to sort through, then get none at all!

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|Terry Acker                                                     |
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