brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (07/09/84)
Do any of you know anything about net rules?
Somebody asks a question about a movie. Do you
a) Followup to the net
b) Send him mail with the answer, assuming that if there was general
interest, he, and he alone, will post the answer.
There's no excuse for dozens of articles telling me what Ackroyd played.
I saw it right off in the movie, and obviously lots of other people did.
If you think, "Well perhaps others didn't and it's my duty to enlighten
them.", then the procedure is:
a) Wait a week and make sure nobody else knows.
or c) Mail the original asker and request the information.
If the original asker gets lots of "I would like to know that too" messages,
then he can post to the net.
Don't tell me I can hit the "n" key. Unlike most of you, I own the computer
I read news on, and it's my disk space and my phone time.
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Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 884-7473