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From: lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr04.223504.20615@sat.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 22:35:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr03.230016.8369@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr4.063315.20892@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Apr4.063315.20892@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

=I am inclined to be sympathetic to the poor naive sysadmins who don't
=have the time or expertise to fix their broken software and don't want
=to be bombarded with a hundred messages an hour -- especially over
=expensive long-distance phone calls -- telling them to fix it.  If
=there were some way of pointing the messages at the authors of the
=software, now *that* would be different.

If you were sympathetic to the sysadmins you wouldn't just throw away all of
their site's postings without any indication.  Even the most naive admin would
rather be bombarded with mail than have everything posted from their site
disappear into a black hole.
-- 
Larry Blair   lmb@sat.com   {apple,decwrl}!sat!lmb