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From: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: (re)posting request etiquette
Message-ID: <1060@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 08:13:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1060
Posted: Mon Jul 22 08:13:52 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 05:06:51 EDT
Reply-To: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Attention fellow Mac owners and USENET readers:

***FLAME ON***

   I have posted the MacDeveloper issues 2 & 3. Out of this action, many
articles entitled "MacDev #2 part 4 missing please repost" have been posted
and sent around the world. To me, this is very silly!!! I originally posted
the item, why not tell me that there has been a problem. I could then send you
a good copy on a reliable path. I see no reason for the whole world to pay for
a message that could better have been sent by mail! As a poster to USENET,
I take responsibility for the stuff I post. If it gets mangled, I am willing to
field requests for it's reposting, as well as making any mods that will make
the items repostable. 

  My next beef is that the articles requesting reposting are being sent
to net.sources.mac. That is not what that news group is for. It is for
*sources* (or binhexes) only. Please keep it that way. I read net.micro.mac
as does everyone who posts to net.sources.mac. Please direct reposting requests
to the originating poster and if that is not possible, post the request to
net.micro.mac. All of these reposting requests are screwing up my archiving
of good Mac postings. They also cost ($$$) money to send around the world.

***FLAME OFF***

  I have found the Mac postings on USENET a valuable source of programs and
information. I would like it to stay that way. When so much of the stuff
on USENET is junk these days, it is nice to have at least one (or two)
news groups worth reading. 

Please limit the reposting requests to mail only.

Thanks,
George Erhart
ATT-NS/Bell Labs
{cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbdkc1!gwe

PS. If your site is one of the net news truncators, please bug your news 
administrator into putting up the latest (2.10.2). These kind of bugs
make life harder on everyone, especially the extra money it costs to send
reposting requests and the repostings themselves.