🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Jan22.102140.1061@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
>
>b) Post it to the group simply because someone had problems compiling GNU
>   Chess on a Macintosh ! I could equally post a rant about how garbage
>   MS-DOS PC's EVERY TIME someone wants help on compiling GNU Chess for PCs,
>   but I don't - simply because it's very bad net etiquette indeed and I'd
>   become very unpopular very quickly.

	It might be bad "(USE)net etiquette", but since you aren't using
USENET that really isn't germane.  Oh, you say you thought that just because
you use rn/nn/trn/gnus to access these postings they were all part of
USNET.  Unfortunately, things just aren't that simple.  As an analogy here
in the USA, you can use your telephone to either call your grandmother or
some sleazy phone sex company.  Although you are using the same equipment
the standards of etiquette are very different.  Gnu.* groups are not bound by
USENET etiquette rules any more then alt.*, clari.*, or biz.* groups are.
One unusual feature of gnu.* is that posting about Apple or Apple products is
a violation of the rules of etiquette.  Unfortunately, people seem to forget
or ignore this rule on a fairly regular basis and have to be reminded.

				Bill Bogstad