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From: crane@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Nettiquette and multiple net groups
Message-ID: <1957@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 21:04:29 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.1957
Posted: Tue Dec 13 21:04:29 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Dec-83 01:37:02 EST
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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I recently posted a 100+ line bulletin to the above newsgroups,
separately. I did this because the documentation for POSTNEWS said you
could send to multiple newsgroups but DID NOT SPECIFY THAT SPACES
BETWEEN COMMAS WERE NOT ALLOWED. I used spaces. It did not work. I
wanted to get the bulletin out to each group, so I posted it
separately.

I must have ruined a lot of people's days.

I got all kinds of nasty responses about wasting valuable disk space
and telephone time.

I got several complaints about my cute little boxes. I thought boxes
would break up the text a little. I personally dno't like reading page
after page of solid test, especially on a CRT screen.

I also got one cmoplaint about the title "Business Opportunity".  The
respondant said that commercial activities has little place on the net.
I agree, but I was not engaging in commercial acticity, I was merely
sharing with you an opportunity that I happened to hear about.

If you are going to gripe about commercial activity, then lets also
discuss net.jobs. I have also read several articles about where to buy
spare parts for IBM PC's and Commodore computers.

If you are averse to making money, too bad. But there were some people
who were interested, and I will be getting back to them personally.

Somebody incorrectly guessed that I was a computer novice who liked to
make a lot of people mad. I assure you, sir, that I am quite neither. I
am new to UNIX (6 months) and am as confused by its sketchy
documentation as the rest of you were when you first started. So, have
a little patience, already. If UNIX gets as big as Jean Yates et al say
it will be, we will be getting a lot more refugees from the mysterious
worlds of OS/MVS, DOS/VSE, VMS, CP/M, MS-DOS, etc. They will make a few
mistakes too. Are we going to jump down their throats too?

Talk about nettiquette? Sheeech!