Xref: utzoo news.admin:15018 news.software.b:8161 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun7.015618.25370@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 7 Jun 91 01:56:18 GMT References: <1991Jun4.193039.18424@alembic.acs.com> <1991Jun6.120359.5946@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 31 rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > Mail is very different from news. [...] > But those who have suffered my comments in other > forums know I will fight to avoid setting the same > high standards for general email. Often email is > used as a basic communication method to get help > for solving problems, so a more tolerant attitude > is required. An utterly bogus distinction; go to comp.theory, rec.games.programmer, comp.sys.amiga.programmer, alt.graphics.pixutils, comp.fonts, or any of hundreds of other newsgroups, and you will see, over time, _thousands_ of articles starting off "Can anyone tell me how to..." Often Usenet news is used as a basic communication method to get help for solving problems, so a more tolerant attitude is required. Making functional software at sites different from the one where your changes are installed suddenly non-functional is simply unforgivable professional behavior. End of discussion. Kent, the man from xanth.