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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: rock-and-roll [Re: Retaining file permissions] [long]
Keywords: chmod, sed, awk... and good old *cat*!
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.234727.23298@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 23:47:27 GMT
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In article <7391@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
|> The following is a letter I mailed that our friend at MIT would not
|> post for me (Our news poster was screwed up). This is on the same subject:
|> 
|> ...
|> 
|> jik@athena never did give any comments on this article, just a reply
|> with some name-calling stating that he would not post it

What I said in my E-mail was:

|You probably can't post because the References line is too long and
|you're using an old version of rn that can't cope with long References
|lines.  Trim the References, and you should be able to post.
|
|In any case, if you can't post that way, then find someone else to
|post your message for you.  I'm not in the habit of doing favors for
|people I don't even know who have been obnoxious to me without
|provocation.

I see no reason to respond any further to Mr. Varney's comments, because I see
no reason to drag personal squabbles onto the net, and because I don't see any
points raised in his posting that I have not already covered in my postings.

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