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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: will someone..
Message-ID: <221@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 17:42:12 GMT
References: <290@wybbs.UUCP> <3903@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Organization: The Consultants' Exchange, Orange County, CA.  (714) 842-6348
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Summary: System Administrators of public access sites should qualify users

In article <3903@cup.portal.com> Thyss@cup.portal.com writes:
>will someone please re send dmgbbs?  i see it look's pretty nice and i'm in
>the lookout for a bbs program, so if the person that put it up in the first
>place could re-upload it, i'd be grateful.  thanks,
>--
>Thyss@cup.portal.com

Let me see if I understand the content of this posting correctly.  

Thyss wants the original poster to go through the trouble of
re-posting the multi-part package s/he just recently posted.  Thyss
further would like all that binary code to circulate through out the
world and reside in duplicate on all the machines on the net.  Could
this be Thyss's intent?
 
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 by suggesting
that every site on the net contain two copies of the multi-hundred-kilobyte
binary posting.

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

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