Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE! Message-ID: <1991May24.095849.530@robobar.co.uk> Date: 24 May 91 09:58:49 GMT References: <1991May20.215138.12821@solbourne.com> <4iTa324w164w@mantis.co.uk> <1991May23.144018.1986@engin.umich.edu> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 29 stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: > Okay, everyone, let's all send Matthew ten mail messages each, telling him > that his headers are wrong. (Note: He calls himself "mathew" with one T, and a lower case 'm'. Matthew with two T's runs his mailfeed site) I hope this was a sarcastic comment. To anyone considering doing this, please remember that his mailfeed picks up his mail from the UK backbone on a LD call at UK rates. The UK backbone can often fail to achieve 400 characters per second on its trailblazer, because the CPU is rather overloaded, although an upgrade is, I believe, promised. Flooding expensive mail links is not friendly to the admins in the middle. Flooding the UK mail backbone will damage mail reliability to all non-academic UK sites (like mine!). So, please please please don't mail him hate mail that's intended to fill his mailbox. It'll fill my newsfeed's newsspool as well, and severely hit their telephone bill! It is obvious that "mathew" is not going to switch from his self-centred attitude, and that flaming his thick hide will have no effect. His reason for complaining is that the C News (good) behaviour stops him from being having his articles read (read: getting attention). Therefore, the correct response would be to put him into your kill file and deny him the attention he really wants, no? -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)