matt@oddjob.UUCP (11/02/87)
Greg Woods asks me to pass the word that hao will be down for an indeterminate time with a disk problem. It has been down since Saturday morning. Depending on the vendor response time it may be up this (Monday) afternoon or later. Matt Crawford
msb@sq.UUCP (11/06/87)
D 1 4 U 2 C [!] (matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu) writes: > It has been down since Saturday morning. Apparently this refers to October 31. We got the article on Friday, November 6. Please keep in mind that articles may take many days to propagate, and do NOT post articles in this group that give a day of the week only! Mark Brader
billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) (11/10/87)
msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader): >> It has been down since Saturday morning. >Apparently this refers to October 31. We got the article on Friday, >November 6. >Please keep in mind that articles may take many days to propagate, >and do NOT post articles in this group that give a day of the week only! Why not have your news reader back up to the beginning of the article? Then you can just look at that nifty little "Date:" header line. There really is a reason for it, you know. -- Bill Wisner, HASA "A" Division ..{codas,ihnp4}!killer!billw "I don't mind at all.." -- Bourgeois Tagg
msb@sq.UUCP (11/12/87)
> > Please ... > > do NOT post articles in this group that give a day of the week only! > Why not have your news reader back up to the beginning of the article? Then > you can just look at that nifty little "Date:" header line. ... Sure, but it takes more time for lots of people reading the article to do that than it does for the sender to supply the date information in the first place. It is the poster's responsibility to make things easier for the reader, not the other way around. That's why we include text rather than having them use the References line (and why we don't include it in larger volumes than necessary, too). Besides, omitting the date is inviting your article to be misread if it gets delayed more than a week. Mark Brader "TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal utzoo!sq!msb compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least msb@sq.com two in every C compiler." -- Knuth