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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A plea for restraint
Message-ID: <712@marob.masa.com>
Date: 28 May 89 12:50:07 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
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In article <14354@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:

> * MAKE A LIST OF GURU NAMES and netmail addresses as you read the 
>newsgroup. If you have a C question, you can *MAIL* it to three or 
>four people and be 95% certain of getting a good reply WITHOUT costing 
>Usenet kilobucks. If you use this method you don't even have to worry 
>whether it's a DUMB question or not. 

This is, IMHO, a minor flaw in an otherwise stellar set of posting guidelines.

I have always felt that unsolicited C-related mail directly to Chris,
or Doug, or Henry was side-stepping the net, and, in a small way perhaps,
an invasion of their privacy.

If these folks were overloaded with personal e-mail regarding C, they might
feel less inclined to council as thoroughly in c.l.c.

Comments?

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com