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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (Bill Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Requesting missing parts (was Re: v01i192: backmail, a background ...)
Keywords: help back mail backmail
Message-ID: <4069@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 16:45:42 GMT
References: <6022@bsu-cs.UUCP> <496@infohh.rmi.de> <4739@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (Bill Svirsky)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <4739@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
+In article after article various posters write:
++I'm missing partXX, partYY and partZZ of [some neat binary]
++Wouple someone please send them to me?
++Thanks,
++	<poster's name+
+
+I would entreat such posters to PLEASE give an indication of their
+geographical location.  I am quite willing to share what I might have
+squirrelled away with those who are close to me and assume that there is
+someone else who will do the same for sites far removed.  So if you're in the
+NorthWestern or Western portion of the United States and need something I'll
+be glad to help out if I can.  But it's a waste of lots of (your or your
+companies') money for me to send something to Florida, or Switzerland, if
+someone closer has it (and they probably do).

Also, to keep net traffic down, the requester should NOT ask for the
missing parts directly but should instead ask that anyone who
is willing to send the missing parts send a short note.  The requester
can then pick the closest site and actually request the missing parts. 

When I see a request for missing parts and I can respond, I always send
a note.  More often than not I never hear back.  So either they never
got my note (unlikely) or they've already received the parts from
someone else (more likely).  This procedure saves me time and energy,
and saves my company, and others on the net, money.
-- 
Bill Svirsky, Citicorp+TTI, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Work phone: 213-450-9111 x2597
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