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From: andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andy Biewer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: short-circuit flaming
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Date: 21 Aug 90 14:00:54 GMT
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People are starting to flame me now for my single post on a short-circuited
conditional whim of network policy.  I asked one simple question and got
many simple--to--complex answers.  Since the flow of responses would NOT
stop, I posted to the net again saying that I had my answer implying that
any continued posts would simply be redundant, but the responses kept coming
in.  My main reason for posting to the net as opposed to fronting the same
question to the campus "help" (quotes are intentional) is because less than
half of them know anything of what they are supposed to and even less of that
group care to reply to any help questions.  Another good reason is because
it sparks a new topic and possibly a flavored conversation piece (it
certainly caught the attention of a lot of readers.)  A point was made that
I was wasting money and network resources by posting that one letter because
I didn't bother to look elsewhere.  Well, my only response to that is, the
weight of the amount of time that I use this thing for news is far less than
it could potentially be for the amount of tax dollars and tuition I throw
towards this state and the federal government for the support of the
network.

Any further flames are a waste of time and should be directed to /dev/null.

Thank you,
Andy B.