gall@yunex5s.UUCP (Norm Gall) (11/23/89)
jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes: | From a article in comp.lang.c (no need to identify which): | > Please mail replys to one of the addresses below - I can no longer | > afford the time to wade through all of comp.lang.c. | I see this sort of thing all the time and it irritates me terribly. | Do others feel this to be a breach of etiquette? yes, I do... | I think a proper response is to send E-mail to posters like this | saying these postings occupy that same bandwidth they already find | intolerably crowded, contribute nothing and should not be made. I am | reluctant to do this until I have a "sense of the net" that my | feelings are generally shared. I don't think it terribly rude to post a message, say, on a freind's account, then say that you don't have net access--then direct replies to your own address (the one that has no news access) B5t Why should I have to look at your crap asking for special privs when the info you ask for might benefit others? nrg -- "Philosophy is not the underlabourer of the sciences but rather their tribunal; it adj5dicates not the truth of scientific theorizing, but the sense of scientific propositions." -- PMS Hacker