Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!well!jef From: jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Caller ID: Is comp.dcom.telecom biased? Message-ID: <22936@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 30 Jan 91 05:30:50 GMT References: <15417@milton.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 16 In the referenced message, Robert Jacobson wrote: }I guess different moderators have different styles. My style, if I }disagree with a posting, is to post my own reply, as a reply. Putting }snide comments on others' postings is almost calculated to get people's }dander up. The old moderator of comp.sys.sun used to do this too, and was asked to stop. But the complaint in that case was mainly that his appended comments were often incorrect. For Pat I guess the complaint is that the comments are obnoxious. I see this as far less serious. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {apple, ucbvax, hplabs}!well!jef "We've got provisions and lots of beer; the key word is survival on the new frontier."