Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudep From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE! Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 09:06:52 GMT References: <1991May21.180108.22477@rice.edu> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Team Limpid's Pink Boy For Bob Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: thistle In article ben@wri.com (Ben Cox) writes: >From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) >>It's been answered at least twice in the last week, for heaven's sake... >>Please read news(5) instead of trying to wing it. > >This does not display a very good attitude on the part of the authors of >cnews. If you're sick of answering dumb questions, Henry, just hit "U". Mebbe it depends on how nicely you ask, Ben? Or on whether Henry and Geoff are getting "dollars, homeboy" to take your abuse. >If you write software and pretend to support it (and your presence in this >newsgroup indicates that you are at least *pretending* to support it), >you're gonna have to put up with stupid questions, and answer them either >with a smile on your face or not at all. Mebbe when it gets him a regular salary. Till then you get what you deserve - you get told to RTFM or get a good answer. I've always had useful and timely responses from Henry. Cheers, -- \/ato /'\ /`\ Ian Dickinson TED KALDIS FOR PRESIDENT! /^^^\/^^^\ vato@warwick.ac.uk /TWIN/TEATS\ @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson / \