Xref: utzoo news.admin:15261 news.software.b:8277 alt.flame:34401 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,alt.flame Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: Conveying problem reports about email by phone or postal mail Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun14.230340.26752@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Followup-To: alt.flame Keywords: "take out a loan and start leasing a life" -- Taki Kogoma (Capt. Gym Z. Quirk) Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix References: <676736110.29234@mindcraft.com> <1991Jun14.134451.24415@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 23:03:40 GMT Lines: 35 rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >>> If you are having trouble configuring news, you >>> can use email to get help. If you are having >>> trouble configuring email you don't have much >>> else to fall back on, so mail systems should be >>> somewhat tolerant and still try to deliver. >> Rubbish. You can fall back to telephone or postal >> mail. > Have you ever tried sending a 500 line context > diff through the telephone? Or redirecting the > audio output of your telephone answerer into > patch? The less intellectually challenged among us might notice the appropriateness of using the phone to discuss the problem, and the mails to convey a floppy disk or tape carrying the solution of the problem. Neil, your responses in this discussion have long descended into pure noise. Why not go away and let those capable of abstract thought consider the issues and present you with the solution without any further bother to your probably busy day trying to remember how to tie your shoes? Followups to alt.flame, the only appropriate forum for your postings. Kent, the man from xanth.