wilkes@mips.UUCP (John Wilkes) (12/17/87)
In article <448@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes: #In article <7532@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes: #>For the record, the best solutions (at least for AT&T employees) are: #> #>1) Snarf HDB UUCP from the STORE! # #Will you guys please stop telling the whole world about how you #fortunate AT&T employess can get wonderful stuff from the STORE that #the rest of us peons may never see? Personally, I'm getting more #and more pissed off Yeah, what he said. I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more. Is there a way to put this in my KILL file? Something like, "if this article mentions HDB, kill it." Even better, kill the article and flame the poster. An alternative would be for one of you ATT types to offer to send HDB to all of us peons. If you don't know how to restrict your gloating to att machines, please use e-mail instead of posting. John Wilkes -- - @work: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!wilkes OR wilkes@mips.com - @home: {ucbvax!ucscc,mips,elxsi}!maow!john OR maow!john@ucscc.ucsc.edu -- The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day at the track.
wilber@alice.UUCP (12/18/87)
John Wilkes <wilkes@mips.UUCP> writes >In article <448@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes: >#In article <7532@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes: >#>For the record, the best solutions (at least for AT&T employees) are: >#> >#>1) Snarf HDB UUCP from the STORE! ># >#Will you guys please stop telling the whole world about how you >#fortunate AT&T employess can get wonderful stuff from the STORE that >#the rest of us peons may never see? Personally, I'm getting more >#and more pissed off > >Yeah, what he said. >[Flames deleted] >An alternative would be for one of you ATT types to offer to send HDB to >all of us peons. > >If you don't know how to restrict your gloating to att machines, please use >e-mail instead of posting. First: An apology to everyone on comp.sys.att. My summary of the AT&T-only solution to my problem should only have been posted to att.sys.unixpc. Second: I was not "gloating." When you obtain the solution to a problem that others are likely to be interested in it is only polite to summarize the results so that they don't have to go through the trouble you did. Again, I should have restricted the posting to AT&T. Third: I can't send HDB to you "peons" (not my word) for the same reason I can't give you free telephones -- it's not mine to give away. I agree that if AT&T doesn't want to give HDB away for free through the STORE! they should at least sell it, since there's obviously a demand for the thing. I'm not the one who makes those decisions, however. Fourth: I won't post any more flames about HDB to comp.sys.att if you don't. Bob Wilber wilber@research.att.com Disclaimer: Obviously these aren't AT&T's official opinions, 'cause if they were, you'd be able to buy HDB.