Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions in these groups deserve a monthly posting Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 89 03:09:31 GMT References: <21089@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <810060@hpsemc.HP.COM> <1766@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: comp Lines: 20 In-reply-to: guy@auspex.auspex.com's message of 7 Jun 89 01:22:28 GMT Anyone who still thinks we don't need this posting probably has not been reading this group for more than a month; here comes the latest round of "Why is grep named the way it is?", one of the questions answered in news.announce.newusers:Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Now why don't people read that document? It's not poorly written ... it is quite interesting in some ways. (I love the part about Indiana and trying to legislate the ratio of dimensions of a circle.) This isn't a flame to whoever asked the grep question to begin with (I don't even remember who it was and I shan't look it up just to point fingers) but would you please read news.announce.newusers, even if you aren't techinically a newuser? And when the monthly posting comes around for comp.unix.{questions,wizards} would everyone please read it the first time they see it? Thanks. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "I realize the Internet isn't the whole world, but it is the center of it." -- Greg Woods