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Subject: Re: hao down with hardware problems
Message-ID: <1987Nov11.163049.15651@sq.uucp>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 16:30:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 16:30:49 1987
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Reply-To: msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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> > Please ...
> > do NOT post articles in this group that give a day of the week only!

> Why not have your news reader back up to the beginning of the article? Then
> you can just look at that nifty little "Date:" header line. ...

Sure, but it takes more time for lots of people reading the article to
do that than it does for the sender to supply the date information in
the first place.  It is the poster's responsibility to make things
easier for the reader, not the other way around.  That's why we include
text rather than having them use the References line (and why we don't
include it in larger volumes than necessary, too).

Besides, omitting the date is inviting your article to be misread
if it gets delayed more than a week.

Mark Brader		"TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal
utzoo!sq!msb		 compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least
msb@sq.com		 two in every C compiler."	-- Knuth