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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO, please
Message-ID: <8754@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 26 Jul 90 13:39:39 GMT
References: <8111@emcard.UUCP> <1363@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <1363@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
=In article <8111@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites) writes:
=
=| Also, I only got parts 1 and 2 of the recent unix utilities post.
=| Should have been 15 or 16 parts, right?
=| Please mail me the rest if possible.
=
=  Suggestion on asking for things:
=
=	1. don't ask for mail of 16 parts of a program. Ten people will
=	   send them and you will waste bandwidth.

The better way to handle having missed one or more parts of a
multi-part posting is to post a message asking for people who _did_
get all of a multipart post, and are willing to mail you your
missing pieces, to send you mail; from the email you get you can
pick one person to actually send you the pieces. The other people get
"Thank you, but I have already found a source for my missing pieces"
reply.


                                               | "The three most dangerous
 Sean Malloy                                   | things in the world are a
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | programmer with a soldering
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | iron, a hardware type with a
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | program patch, and a user
                                               | with an idea."