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From: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: TR3-6.ZIP - Operate PC from a remote location, or monitor
Message-ID: <4497@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 91 07:15:30 GMT
References: <1637.w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <743@giaea.gi.oz>
Reply-To: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
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doug@giaea.gi.oz (doug thomson) writes:
> When I came back, I was most surprised to find a posting claiming to be
> from me, including the full overview of TeleReplica! A closer inspection
> of the headers revealed the message id to be:
>     <1637.w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
> which seems to suggest it was actually posted by Keith.

It was reposted by me, and clearly marked as such when it left
SIMTEL20.  Apprently the news software at ucbvax striped the line
I added to the header which said:

Comment: Reposted by Keith Petersen

In the future I will use the "Summary:" line instead, since that line
seems to pass through ok.  All messages will have a "Message-Id:"
in the general form of:  <1637.w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>  with slight
variations in format depending upon which mailer I use.

I'm sorry you were upset by my reposting.  When uploaders provide a
longer description in addition to the usual one-liner, I frequently
repost their upload announcements.  Early last year I had been
including their messages in a posting with my name on it.  That
resulted in questions coming to me which really should have been sent
to the author of the program.  Since I receive as many as 50 messages
per day I had to do something.  The repostings have solved that
problem and I would like to continue with them.

In the future please do not include information in your announcements
which you would not post under your own name.  That should solve the
problem.  In my opinion, users appreciate knowing what features program
offers so they can decide whether to take the time to download it.

If the readers of this newsgroup would rather not see detailed
descriptions I will just stick to posting the recent uploads and the
monthly uploads listing.

Keith
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Keith Petersen
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