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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Help fight stupidity
Message-ID: <1492@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 90 01:35:47 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  Please help me stop mis-posting to this group. Whenever I see a
posting which is off topic in this group I mail the poster this little
file:
________________________________________________________________

  This discussion does not relate to binaries in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.
Please move the discussion to comp.os.msdos.{misc,hardware}, where it
is appropriate and will get a better readership.

  Let's try to keep c.b.i.p.d on topic.
________________________________________________________________

  If all the people who are as fed up with this, and who run rn, will
"clip and save" this in a file (I use off.topic), when you see one of
these you can type "roff.topic<RET>s" and mail it to the poster.
That's "r" for reply, "off.topic<RET>" for the file to include, and "s"
to send it to the poster.

  Maybe if people get 50-100 messages like this they will *wake up*!!!

  Sorry if this sounds like I'm upset, it's been a long day, I'm
skipping a poker game to post articles, and I'm wasting time reading
what these ____ are misposting. There seems to be an epidemic of
cranialanalism, and maybe this will help stop it.

-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me