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Article #3790Re: Really funny jokes being missed
From: kevin lyda
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 16:02
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 16:02
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In article <1991Jun7.125118@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes: ->If you are trying to warn people, it makes sense to post in a forum read ->by those people, with a subject line designed to attract their attention. -> ->Subject: ATTENTION non-C news newsadmins, important warning -> ->would certainly have gotten my attention, posted to news.admin, ->news.announce.important, or news.software.anu-news. I don't read ->news.software.b because I don't run B news or C news. I suspect you don't ->read news.software.anu-news for similar reasons. -> ->Posting something about C news dropping articles with bogus headers is ->about as much warning as the legal notices in the back of the newspaper ->that few people ever read. They aren't designed to notify anybody, just ->to be able to say "we did notify the public" at a later date. good point! i agree entirely. in other words, when someone posts something, they should use the correct headers so that everyone that reads the headers can understand exactly what is going on. DO YOU GET MY DRIFT?! kevin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!lyda From: lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <79480@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 10 Jun 91 16:02:36 GMT References: <wu2N39w164w@mantis.co.uk> <3752@ksr.com> <10623@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May29.221015.1865@druid.uucp> <1991May31.101334@mccall.com> <4812.284e0cf6@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1991Jun7.125118@mccall.com> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Followup-To: news.admin Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: sybil.cs.buffalo.edu