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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: Message from Richard Stallman
In-Reply-To: james@dlss2.UUCP's message of 4 Jun 91 23:27:01 GMT
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In article <313@dlss2.UUCP> james@dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) writes:
   ...why should Richard Stallman need to "learn how to post a
   message"?  He may have really asked someone to post for him, but I
   have seen messages posted by him in the past, yea even felt the
   heat from, one of his postings.

As far as I can tell, RMS uses mailing lists exclusively.  If you saw
his comments on a newsgroup, it was because that particular newsgroup
is gatewayed with a list to which he subscribes, and to which he
mailed his comments, which you later read as a news article.  If a
discussion forum exists only as a newsgroup, it's unlikely he sees it,
let alone posts to it.

(I once had the dubious pleasure of establishing a three-way gateway
between a TOPS-20 Bboard, a newsgroup, and a mailing list.  I called
the arrangement a "triple point" because the forum had attributes of
three states at once...)