bilbo.dana@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Dana Myers) (02/27/88)
I enjoy most the mail I get from info-c. A lot of truly useful information regarding the C programming language is submitted. There is also a lot of trash mail that everyone on the list needs to wade through to get to the good stuff. Aside from deleting all messages except the ones from Doug Gwyn and henry Spencer and a few others, I have no choice but to wade through the (seemingly endless) stream of "I compiled this and it didn't work, HELP!" and "How come you can be on the standards committe and I can't?" and even the periodic "They had a really good way of doing that in Fortran (or Cobol or Modula or Pascal or PDP-11 assembler or whatever the first language you ever programmed in was)". The worst kind of message is like the one that follows: > From: "Peter J. Holsberg" <pjh@mccc.uucp> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.c > Subject: Re: Associativity -- what is it? > Message-ID: <241@mccc.UUCP> > Date: 25 Feb 88 17:59:00 GMT > To: info-c@brl-smoke.arpa > > > Dave, > > Your clear English-language statements reflect exactly the way I learned > it, too. > -- > Peter Holsberg UUCP: {rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh > Technology Division CompuServe: 70240,334 > Mercer College GEnie: PJHOLSBERG > Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800 This is a "me too" message to Dave. Dave who?? And why is Dave's address "info-c@brl-smoke.arpa"?? PLEASE! Think about the messages you send. This is a mailing list. If you 'reply' to mail you get, it might easily go to everyone else, too. As explained before, this costs people money and time, and time costs money, too. PLEASE! Try to solve your own programming bugs before you ask everybody to help you. PLEASE!! Practice just a little care in what you send, since the people who really can answer those questions may stop participating if it gets to be too time consuming munching through the junk mail on this list. This message is example of another kind of net-clogger. A peeve! ;-) Dana H. Myers