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Re: Newsgroup creation guidelines

#152
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:14
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According to strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom):
>According to stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley):
>>Telling pople what is polite or good is not the same as telling them
>>what they must do.
>
>This isn't worth debating.  All I meant was that both your Users Guide
>and the guidelines have statements of the form "You should do <X>;
>If you don't do <X>, then <this thing you don't like> will happen".

Has it ever occured to you that the person who puts up a sign

    BEWARE OF FALLING ROCKS

may _not_ be responsible for the fact that the rocks fall?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pdn!tct!chip
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup creation guidelines
Message-ID: <2B3BBFFF.7BCB@tct.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:14:23 GMT
References: <1h629qINNp3r@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1992Dec22.174745.56455@watson.ibm.com>
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
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