🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BB6F09B696686EE7E3@10.0.1.2>, Simon Slavin <slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> In article <bi3jsq$ouj$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
> Vaughan Wittorff <"vww20"@(nospam)cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> >My reasoning is that comp.sys.mac.system is the de facto international
> >group; I have come from and will be returning to Australia (and bought
> >the computer there), and am presently residing and working in the UK.
> >
> >Any suggestions Simon about which would be appropriate, and which not?
> 
> I see the local Mac groups as having two purposes: to answer
> questions that apply to one country (e.g. Cheap place to buy
> power supply, how do I get u-umlaut in my text) and to provide
> answers for those people too timid to post to the big groups
> because they're full of flame-wars and trolling.
> 
> You obviously aren't part of the second group since you cross-
> posted to one of the big groups.
> 
> Your question is not specific about any particular country: the
> answer isn't different just because you're in Australia, for
> example.  I'd have said that posting it to c.s.m.s was fine but
> not the other two.
> 
> Hell, at least you didn't add c.s.m.misc in too !

It was THREE newsgroups, and any decent newsreader would mark it read if you
subsribed to all 3.

You've wasted more 1's and 0's with your anal retentive bullshit :)