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>In article <122502@cup.portal.com>, Ted Eugene Viens writes:
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>> I WISH JIM WAS AS EASY TO REACH AS HE IS TO FIND CLUTTERING OUR DOWNLOADS!!!
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>> 501 <caleb!jdp>...  550 Host unknown (Name server: caleb.uucp.: host not fou
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>Then your host or nameserver is not set up properly.  That is beyond my contro
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>Caleb has been in the uucp maps for years.  If your host doesn't keep the maps
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>then it should forward mail to one that does (e.g. uunet.)  I suggest that you
>contact your postmaster.
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>> Jim....
>> Please...  please...  please...
>> Edit your distribution... groups line to exclude the houston.news and
>> other irrelevant groups.
>> Tonight, I received 5 articles in houston.news.  Four of them were
>> written by you and one was a reply to you.  None of them were appropriate
>> to houston.news...
>> Please edit your distributions line...
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>I didn't put houston.news in the newsgroups line.  Someone else did.  I merely
>replied to their post.  Did you try complaining to the original poster?
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>                                                Jim Pritchett
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>UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp             "For with God nothing shall
>                                                be impossible."   Luke 1:37
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I will inquire about the address problem.
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Jim, please review your reply.
I am making a mature, reasonable request as one intelligent net-surfer to anoth
er.
By example, I am making the same request of others following these groups.
"Please..."..."Edit your distribution... groups line"...  is a request for you
to edit the distribution and groups line when you make a reply.  Perhaps your
mailer software doesn't give you ready access to the groups or distribution
fields.  (My software doesn't.)  Then the request is for you to take the extra
steps to edit these fields after some fairly decent and kind person has written
you to let you know that these postings are going to groups unrelated.  (This i
s
possible with my software.)  I never presumed that you could control the action
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of the original poster, I only ask that you take responsibility for your own
actions.  You are neither alone or unique with this problem.  In fact, it is
pandemic with the unimagined growth of the usenet.  Most cross-postings are
inadvertantly done when one person replies to an earlier posting.  I will again
ask the author of my automatic mailing software to change it so that a reply
automatically resets the groups field to only the group in which I am replying.
I would not be surprised if there is a growing movement to limit all replies
to usenet postings to the group in which the reply is made.
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Thanks for you time...  Bye...  Ted..