jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (10/13/89)
[ yet another student asking for information about how people use the net, multiply posting three times that I've seen so far ] One thing you should learn is the difference between multiple postings and cross-postings. The latter means that only one copy of your message gets transmitted; this saves on filestore (gigabytes, spread over the world) and communication costs (probably hours of line time); with most newsreader programs, it also saves human time (thousands of hours, spread over all readers) because people only need to see the article once. I see no earthly reason why we should help you when you aren't willing to make the preliminary investigation of the Usenet's technology that would have stopped you making such a grossly wasteful mistake. It hardly says much for your ability as a research scholar. A reporter for the National Enquirer would probably have done better. You could, for example, have asked an experienced local user, or your system manager, or posted to news.newusers.questions to ask how to go about it. This probably needs to go into the Frequently Asked Questions file. The answer should be along the lines of "piss off, unless your investigation poses a really interesting question". [ followups directed to news.newusers.questions ] -- Jack Campin * Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND. 041 339 8855 x6045 wk 041 556 1878 ho INTERNET: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: jack@glasgow.uucp JANET: jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs PLINGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack