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From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Gentlemen, Gentlemen - PLEASE!
Message-ID: <11623@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 22:30:34 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 24 22:30:34 1985
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Please don't post your answers to trivia questions to the net.  I'm sure that
we're all bored silly reading the words "Fractured Fairy Tales" over and
over and over.  I don't want to just ignore them all, because one of them
might have another question, or an interesting side point.

My understanding of accepted nettiquet is that the poster of a question should
be willing to *summarize* mailed replies to the net.  This will usually consist
of one (and only one) article containg the answer - usually with a subject
marked "answer" or "spoiler".  (Summarize does not mean a list of all the
mail you got.)

So, please, before you post your reply to the net, consider these points.
- four hundred other people are poised with their finger over the 'f' key
  at that very moment.
- nobody likes reading the same thing four hundred times.
- the answer will be posted eventually.  *You* will know that you knew the
  right answer all along and can be proud of how smart you are.  The rest
  of the world *doesn't care* how smart you are - you won't be impressing
  us in the least.  (And besides, if you were wrong, you won't get thousands
  of messages telling you what a stupid jerk you are.)

John
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