nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA (02/11/86)
The other day I found this in my mail box. As I recall it was in reply to people cross-posting items for the 8 & 16 bit machines to the wrong lists. If my memory is deficient in recalling what the reply was to, please forgive the following rant. > From: ulysses!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ixl9261@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (D) > Message-Id: <8602101427.AA02455@ritcv.UUCP> > In-Reply-To: <12179952512.9.MRC@PANDA> ... > Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY > > > I am not one of the 'cretins' etc., but I think that the reason that > they post the requests to the newsgroup is that they can't figure out > how to mail the notes to the ATARI-INFO-REQUEST. Most of these people > are probably fairly new to the USENET. Why don't you publish an article > on how to find out the path to the ATARI-INFO-REQUEST. >>> FLAME ON <<< NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! MESSAGES SHOULD >>>ONLY<<< BE SENT TO INFO-ATARI-REQUEST TO ADD/DROP NAMES FROM THE DISTRIBUTION LIST! These folks are NOT there to do your sorting for you! Send to INFO-ATARI8 or INFO-ATARI16 as appropriate for the msg you are posting, but do NOT send a message to INFO-ATARI-REQUEST UNLESS it is to the MAINTAINERS of this distribution list, rather than for general distribution. If I where the maintainers of this list, I would refuse to re-post any messages sent to the INFO-ATARI-REQUEST address. >>> FLAME OFF <<< -Richard Hartman max.hartman@ames-vmsb ------
preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (02/12/86)
> The other day I found this in my mail box. As I recall it was in reply > to people cross-posting items for the 8 & 16 bit machines to the wrong > lists. If my memory is deficient in recalling what the reply was to, > please forgive the following rant. /* Written 6:58 pm Feb 10, 1986 > by nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA in ccvaxa:net.micro.atari */ > > > I am not one of the 'cretins' etc., but I think that the reason that > > they post the requests to the newsgroup is that they can't figure out > > how to mail the notes to the ATARI-INFO-REQUEST. Most of these people > > are probably fairly new to the USENET. Why don't you publish an article > > on how to find out the path to the ATARI-INFO-REQUEST. > > NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! MESSAGES SHOULD >>>ONLY<<< BE SENT TO > INFO-ATARI-REQUEST TO ADD/DROP NAMES FROM THE DISTRIBUTION > LIST! ---------- Curiously enough, that's EXACTLY what they were talking about. The note quoted was in response to a note complaining about "Please drop me from this mailing list" notes appearing here. It's not nice to flame people when you're only guessing what they're talking about, even when you have the sense to acknowledge in advance that you might be wrong... -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece arpa: preece@gswd-vms