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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Posting (was Re: Another silly question)
Message-ID: <2905@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 18 May 89 19:20:03 GMT
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In article <1989May15.215656.15717@ziebmef.uucp> stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>[article deleted which says, amongst other things, that we should wait a
> couple of days to post replies to simple questions etc]
>
>   How about this:  If you feel that the question is _that_ simple that
>everyone on the net knows the answer except the person who posted the
>original, why not hit r or R and mail a reply to that person only?

The obvious answer is:  because my ego can't eat just one.

How about this:  do you really think that I _don't_?  Jeez.  You oughta
see my carbon-copies directory at the end of a day...

				--Blair
				  "I can feel it inflating
				   even as we speak..."