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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <676736110.29234@mindcraft.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 14:15:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.160730.11982@mp.cs.niu.edu> <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk>
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In article <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk writes:
|rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|| In article <oT8633w164w@mantis.co.uk| mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H
|| |So tell me: why is it OK to silently throw away news a person has written,
|| |but not OK to silently throw away mail a person has written?
|| 
||  Firstly C-news does not silently throw away news.  It reports it to the
|| local administrator.
|
|That is silent *to the user*. I am speaking from the perspective of a user of
|the system.
|
|So FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A USER OF THE SYSTEM, why is it OK to silently
|throw away news that person has written, but not OK to silently throw away
|mail that person has written?

Mathew has crossed the line from annoying repetitive (though
marginally productive) flaming to intellectual dishonesty.  His
quote of Neil Rickert's article is taken out of context, in
that it ignores the second half of Neil's article which
addressed this issue directly.
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	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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