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From: donc@microsoft.UUCP (Don CORBITT)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Read this before buying OS/2
Summary: cross posting is evil
Message-ID: <72456@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 18:40:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: microsof.72456
References: <1991May9.160203.3669@cbnewse.att.com> <1991May11.031105.4689@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> <1991May13.123958.17376@cbnewse.att.com>
Reply-To: donc@microsoft.UUCP (Don CORBITT)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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This discussion sure is interesting, but it currently has nothing to
do with Windows.  Since the first article was cross posted to the 
MSWin and OS/2 groups, all the replies have been also.  I would sure
appreciate it if each of us edited the Followup-To or the Newsgroups 
lines, so that as a discussion veered off track, people in groups
that are no longer appropriate don't need to skip those messages.

This (my) posting is of course quite selfish.  I have a limited time
each day to read mail, so I try to be selective.  Since I work on
Windows, I read comp.windows.ms to see what kinds of problems people
have, and their suggested improvements for the product.  (And no,
I unfortunately _don't_ have time to do tech-support by mail for
thousands of developers.  Wish I did....)

I am not interested in IBMs alleged poor customer support.  If I _did_ 
want that kind of information, I would read one of the OS/2 groups.

Note that this isn't a flame, just a gentle reminder.  If I wanted to
flame, I'd use lots of obsc*ne words with 1 l*tter removed, to prove
that I'm lit*rate. :-)
--
Don Corbitt, donc@microsoft.uucp,  Windows developer.
Mail flames, post apologies.   I'm not the net.police, does it pay well?
(and finally) "Cross posting is almost always inappropriate."