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In article <1993Jan21.000646.20015@watson.ibm.com> dvfreese@freese.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Doug Freese) writes:
>In article <C15LuK.2Hz@cscns.com> mavihoja@cscns.com (Michael D. Beatty) writes:
>>Keywords: 
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>>Greetings All:
>>     Do you remember about a month and a helf ago, when some clumsy, 
>>blind, ignorant oaf allegedly abused the use of the listserv and 
>>asked for help from you folks on methods of getting an exciting line 
>>
>>   ... (lot of stuff deleted) ...
>>
>>Please contact me if you you would like to try them, or hear more 
>>about the potential business possibilities.
>>Or, to just discuss the chemistry!
>>
>>        Thanks for being there......           Michael Beatty
>>
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>I think it would be interesting to cross post this to sci.med.nutrition
>and solicit some responses. 
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>Doug Freese                 (The views expressed here are entirely mine)     
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Hello Doug (and everybody else whom it may concern)!

Besides all the technical stuff that I teach those folks that attend my
courses on email and news here at the university, I tell them to think
a little, before they post articles to newsgroups. To think, whether their
article really is of value to the whole news-community or just to the author
of the article to be answered. Another thing they should do is not always to
include the original mail or article as a whole, but only those lines that
they refer to in their answer.

I am sorry that you have not observed both of these considerations.
After repeating the whole long article you state that this article should
be posted also to another newsgroup, obviously a suggestion to the author
of the original article.

Please tell him directly the next time and do net waste bandwidth and the time
of those reading this group. Perhaps you could take a look into the group
"news.announce.newusers", there is a periodically posted article with the
subject "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette".

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