Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) (03/09/91)
We have just had dozens of non-TeX notes mainly from the Info-TeX
mailing list -- either "UNSUB LOSER", "SUB LOSER" or "Please add J.
Random Loser to the TUG mailing list". All this junk is polluting
comp.text.tex which was already doing badly enough on its own.
PLEASE stop it! Either
-- don't post to Info-TeX unless your message actually is INFOrmation
about TeX, or
-- stop forwarding info-TeX to comp.text.tex.
Isn't there an info-tex-request address? If not, why not? If so, why
does NOONE know about it? (You could prepend a message to every item
forwarded to the mailing list...)
Also: PLEASE use a descriptive subject line, and PLEASE include "LaTeX"
if you are using LaTeX, which is very different from TeX proper, and
PLEASE include the name of a particular system when you are talking
about a particular system.
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\-------------------------------------------------------------------//jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) (03/09/91)
Agreed, something must be done. When you have suggestions, even though you post them to comp.text.tex, you may want to forward that message to George at bed_gdg@shsu.bitnet (I'm not sure that he is able to read comp.text.tex, but if I'm wrong, he'll see this and tell me so). Better yet, send directly to info-tex@shsu.bitnet. -- James Darrell McCauley (jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet) Spatial Analysis Lab, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/11/91)
In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.91Mar8170248@msc0.prg.ox.ac.uk> Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes:
Also: PLEASE use a descriptive subject line, and PLEASE include "LaTeX"
if you are using LaTeX, which is very different from TeX proper,
I assume from this that Damian does his typesetting using the
primitive macros built into TeX? This is very impressive, and I am
sure more details would be of interest. Myself, I use a set of macros
which Leslie Lamport wrote, which sit over the primitives. I believe
others use a set of macros written by Donald Knuth. Neither are, of
course, `proper'.
Sebastian
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