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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: will someone..
Message-ID: <4330040@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 88 01:31:51 GMT
References: <3903@cup.portal.com>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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>Thyss wants the original poster to go through the trouble of ...
> 
>Wouldn't it have been more courteous to have posted an email message
>directly to the author of DMGBBS and made arrangements to obtain a
>copy directly from the author or an archive site?
> 
>If Thyss had done that, we wouldn't have had to read his impertinent
>request, and s/he wouldn't have embarrassed him/herself ...
>
>Perhaps sysadmins of public-access sites should educate their users in
>the proper use of Usenet before granting them the ability to post
>articles?
>
>Larry Dighera
>----------

Please, can we try to shake the image of computer hackers who don't
know how to deal with people and demonstrate a little diplomacy
when we correct our fellow net users?  We have all sorts of people
on the net with all levels of experience.  Many sites, including
mine, have system administrators who show little interest in giving
classes on use of the net.  Larry, you are clearly a more experienced
user than Thyss.  Please don't embarrass newer users off the net.
We all gain from having a large audience of potential respondees
to our postings.

John Hardin  hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com