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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: child care
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 12:05:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 26 12:05:43 1986
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In an article someone wrote:
> ANYONE WHO RESPONDED TO THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ON 4/24 or 4/23
> PLEASE RESPOND AGAIN AS THE MAIL WAS LOST.  THANK YOU.
>> Child care need by experienced homemaker for three children
>> (one in school full time) in the Eatontown area.  Please
>> call xxx-yyyy at Holmdel, New Jersey, or electronically mail
>> to ... 

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!  Not once, but twice!!!  How many people from
Sweden do you suppose will respond?  Okay, how about Australia?  Too
far?  You're expecting people from Ontario or Georgia or Washington
or Nevada to reply?  Why send it to the whole bloody world then?  Why
is it always from the same state?  Why from the same company?

Okay, really I know why.  News software is given out too quickly and
news connections are made in an assembly-line fashion.  You want it?
Sure. You want it? Sure  You want it?  Sure.  And so on.  So the news
administrators (if there are even such people... I suspect not) just
say -- there it is and never educate anyone in the use of the software
as they themselves were never educated.  So, having no idea that `net.'
newsgroups, in general, go to 22 or so countries on 4 different
continents, they post requests for local things 1) to the wrong
newsgroups and 2) worldwide.

When I send news software to a site that wants a USENET connection, I
do not start up the news connection before asking that the contact on
the other end read the documents that come with the software.  At
leats then there's a chance of some education getting done and,
hopefully, the importance of "knowing what you're doing" will sink
in.
-- 
Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
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