🚀 go-pugleaf

        To all of you who are reading my requests for help on using compressed
files in the comp.lang.modula2 newsgroup: please ignore any and all postings I
have put on this list. I guess they are completely irrelevant to modula-2. I
don't have access to news, Usenet or Internet, and I have managed to completely
exhaust any other routes for help that I might have taken. I
was hoping that maybe somebody else had been through this process and could
give me some help. From the amount of nasty mail that I've been getting, I guess
that isn't going to happen. So to all of you who think that my quest for
assistance is irrelevant, please ignore my messages or help me out. That might
shut me up. Otherwise, I don't think it's particularly helpful (or nice) to
whack on me for making what I didn't know was a mistake. I've posted questions
like these on the net before (to other lists), and the people there have always
been helpful and friendly and haven't cared that what I was asking about was
relevant to the "core" issues of the list. Pardon my naivete for thinking that
info-m2 was the same.
        To avoid some misunderstanding, I guess I should say that
I am on BITNET, and sending my notes to a mailing list. Most of the really
flaming letters have been from people reading my stuff in the news. I DON'T
HAVE NEWS. STOP TELLING ME TO LOOK AT THE vax newsgroup or the alt.files.com-
pression or unix.wizards or whatever. I CAN'T. I'm just a comp-sci student
at a small, private midwestern college with a single small VAX running VMS
to play around with. We can ONLY access BITNET. I hope this clears some things
up. I'm sorry to have WASTED everybody's valuable time. I already feel stupid
enough for not being able to figure this out on my own. Thanks to everyone
for making me feel like an imbecile for asking a question.


                                        nettled,
                                        ozymandias

P.S. I don't think the question I asked about macOberon was irrelevant. Modula-2
is as close as you're going to get to Oberon, and I have seen many questions
about it on the list before.