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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.doc
Message-ID: <854@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 12:09:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 12:09:55 1985
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: questions should be asked LOCALLY first

People are suggesting that we have a net.doc for every
UNIX neophyte to be able to use to ask questions to the net.

Please, NO NO NO NO NO!
We already have the right newsgroup for this - net.unix.
It's a matter of using it PROPERLY.

Most questions you have can be answered by someone relatively
close to you, and should not be sent around the world or even
the continent. Netnews is a scarce resource, and if people
start asking all kinds of questions which someone on their
site can answer, we'll be swamped.

What I do when I have a simple question is one of the following,
in progression:
	- ask a local person who's likely to know the answer
	- post to net.unix or net.unix-wizards WITH DISTRIBUTION
	  LIMITED TO MY CITY. If you're on a large machine,
	  you may be able to limit this further, to your machine,
	  or perhaps to your organization.
	- if the above two fail, and the question therefore appears
	  to be non-trivial, I'll consider posting to the net.

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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