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From: pinard@odyssee.UUCP (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.d,news.admin
Subject: Re: 417K waste of money postings (was: Re: PICNIX V3)
Summary: No flames, please!
Message-ID: <1008@odyssee.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 04:42:50 GMT
References: <1559@slvblc.UUCP>, <111@pigs.UUCP>
Followup-To: news.admin
Organization: Odyssee (ORA) inc., Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Thu May 19 00:42:50 1988

In article <111@pigs.UUCP>, naugj@pigc.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
   In article <1559@slvblc.UUCP>, dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) writes:
   > Total     33    522398             21%    417156

   I actually have several complaints with picnix being distributed on the
   net.

Even if several of your five (5) complaints are quite reasonable, to my own
feelings you are going a little far:

   Thirdly, [...] comp.binaries.ibm.pc was agreed upon as a moderated
   group.  for dick flagan to spend $2,500 of the net's money at the push of
   a button is WRONG.

Rahul will have sometimes to decide what is Good and what is Wrong, and
surely some people will not agree and will get upset.  He might even get
flamed.  He has all my sympathy.

   Fifth, [...]  who is dick flagan?  and did anyone notice that the site
   which transmitted the code was a uupc site?

So what, my friend!  Is there anything wrong to be less known that Rahul?
Is someone useless because s/he uses UUPC?

   Are we really going to let pc-clone users spend all of the net's money
   and provide nothing in return?

Ouh, la la!  Let us be a little more peaceful.  I'm sure that Dick Flanagan
had the impression of doing something Good when he posted Picnix, and
certainly several others netters do think Dick contributed something useful
for them by posting Picnix.  You may disagree with him or them, of course,
you may even be right.  But you judge that Mr. Flanagan does not contribute
anything to the net, and this could be perceived as an irrespectful thought.

I would add, to be complete, that Dick Flanagan often write to the net and,
despite the fact that I do not read it all (:-), no negative impression is
attached yet to his name in my mind.  It could well be that Mr. Flanagan
indeed contributes to the net, in his own ways; as I am trying to contribute
my little part myself by writing this note.

Let us try to live, and communicate, in peaceful ways: no flames, please.
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Francois Pinard        "Vivement    C.P. 886, L'Epiphanie (Qc), Canada J0K 1J0
pinard@odyssee.uucp       GNU!"     (514)588-4656; Odyssee R.A.: (514)279-0716
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Francois Pinard        "Vivement    C.P. 886, L'Epiphanie (Qc), Canada J0K 1J0
pinard@odyssee.uucp       GNU!"     (514)588-4656; Odyssee R.A.: (514)279-0716
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