james@dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) (06/05/91)
Paul, this is interesting....why should Richard Stallman need to "learn who to post a message"?....He may have really asked someone to post for him, but I have seen messages posted by him in the past, yea even felt the heat from, one of his postings. How strange......
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (06/05/91)
In article <313@dlss2.UUCP> james@dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) writes:
...why should Richard Stallman need to "learn how to post a
message"? He may have really asked someone to post for him, but I
have seen messages posted by him in the past, yea even felt the
heat from, one of his postings.
As far as I can tell, RMS uses mailing lists exclusively. If you saw
his comments on a newsgroup, it was because that particular newsgroup
is gatewayed with a list to which he subscribes, and to which he
mailed his comments, which you later read as a news article. If a
discussion forum exists only as a newsgroup, it's unlikely he sees it,
let alone posts to it.
(I once had the dubious pleasure of establishing a three-way gateway
between a TOPS-20 Bboard, a newsgroup, and a mailing list. I called
the arrangement a "triple point" because the forum had attributes of
three states at once...)