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From: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: A question from a net.virgin
Message-ID: <604@crabcake>
Date: 11 Jan 90 18:46:29 GMT
References: <820@edstip.EDS.COM> <250@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Reply-To: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
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In article <250@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <820@edstip.EDS.COM> ohrnb@edstip.EDS.COM (Erik Ohrnberger) writes:
>>I'm sure this is a trivial question, but here goes:
>>I have seen the (handle abbreviation symbol) IMHO
>>in a number of net messages.  What does this mean?
>It means you should read the articles in news.announce.newusers.

Let's not go through this again.

Not every site either obeys the expiration date on, or stores, the
news.announce.newusers articles.  Furthermore, the very fact that the new
user is asking such a question means that it's more likely than usual that
this particular new user is at such a site.

Now, since the articles are supposed to be available, someone has indeed
screwed up.  However, that doesn't mean it's the new user who screwed up;
maybe it's the news administrator or someone similar who screwed up.  Please,
don't give semi-flaming, deliberately nonresponsive answers based on the
assumption that the new user screwed up; you don't know that.  If you're
going to answer the question at all, really answer the question.

(Not to mention the idiocy of using "RTFM" in your header considering that if
the new user doesn't know what IMHO means he's unlikely to know what RTFM
means.)

PS: IMHO = "In my humble/honest opinion"
RTFM = "Read the f**king manual"
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Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
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