johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (10/15/89)
The previous article was submitted by someone at Hewlett-Packard. Every time someone from HP writes to comp.compilers, I am inundated with a blizzard of redundant copies. I have received this one eighteen times so far and will doubtless receive it several times more. You can see from the path lines quoted below that it bounced around HP for a while, then went to motcsd and to apple, all without the Approved: line that means that it has passed through the moderation point. Then apple sends it to all of their friends, all of whom notice that it needs to be moderated, and all of whom thoughtfully send it to me, umpteen times. This is a pain as well as a waste of bandwidth. If any readers at HP, at apple, or at motcsd could prod your system administrators to fix news to do the right thing with moderated newsgroups, I and all of the other moderators would greatly appreciate it. Path: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: bionet!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: bbn!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: rutgers!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: usc!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: bloom-beacon!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: fernwood!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: oliveb!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: unix!excelan!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: amdahl!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: tahoe!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: claris!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: ames!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: voder!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: arc!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: cae780!excelan!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc Path: ames!excelan!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpcllmv!jbc -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {spdcc | ima | lotus}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue. Please send responses to the author of the message, not the poster.