Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: posting privileges Message-ID: <9938@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 21 Mar 89 02:50:19 GMT References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1612@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 34 In article <1612@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com> bga@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >In article <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU>, gus@pyr.gatech.EDU (gus Baird) writes: >> Then he discovers that the language and system newsgroups are just the >> place to get help with his homework, or to avoid having to buy manuals. >I don't read comp.lang.c, but most of the other comp.lang groups have pretty >low volume, and I haven't noticed the problems you describe. I think this >is true of most of the comp.* groups. A couple of additional points: I've seen many good *questions* (as well as answers) coming from undergrads on comp.lang.c. The kind of questions you think you can answer off the top of your head, until you actually sit down and type it up. They make us "professionals" (whatever that means; I really don't know) think, which is much more than this current subject thread is doing! I have an undergrad friend at Purdue (Hi Mitch :-)) who cannot post because undergrads aren't allowed to, and I'm sorry to say that the net is LOSING a lot of insight and good information because of it. He is an extremely knowledgable person, and would be a very valuable technical resource to the net. Look at the 'drivel' in here lately, it seems to be stemming from gus. gus, why don't you look at your postings and tell us how they differ from the postings you are trying to keep off the net. From where I sit, you have generated a lot of traffic which most of us consider noise. -- _ __ NEVIN ":-)" LIBER nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, / / _ , __o ____ briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own!" / (_