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From: mls@whutt.UUCP (SIEMON)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions without answers
Summary: actually ...
Message-ID: <3293@whutt.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 14:29:53 GMT
References: <50@uisc1.UUCP> <11967@ut-sally.UUCP> <1718@looking.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1718@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:

> You are supposed to answer with E-mail.  The poster made a mistake and
> was supposed to request answers by E-mail.
> 
> Otherwise when somebody asks a moderatedly easy question, we get 20
> responses posted to the net.

More to the point (I think Brad is being diplomatic), when somebody asks
a moderately hard question (that LOOKS easy) we get 20 wrong responses
posted to the net, sowing great confusion.  Summaries are the way to go!
(Admittedly, the phrasing "email me, BECAUSE I don't have time to read
this group" is rather stupid.)
-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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