Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -( Message-ID: <1991Apr5.081416.6660@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 08:14:16 GMT References: <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr03.230016.8369@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr4.063315.20892@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr04.223504.20615@sat.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <1991Apr04.223504.20615@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes: >If you were sympathetic to the sysadmins you wouldn't just throw away all of >their site's postings without any indication. The alternative is to inundate him with, potentially, hundreds of complaints *per posting*. This is very much exceedingly antisocial, especially for sysadmins who pay phone bills for all that mail. Agreed that *one* warning now and then would be a good thing. We could not think of any way to do it. -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry