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- From: genew@mindlink.bc.ca (Gene Wirchenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C Tutor (CBT) - c_tutor.zip (0/2)
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 05:21:10 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- garyg@jax.jaxnet.com (Gary M. Greenberg) wrote:
-
- >Gene Wirchenko (genew@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
- >: herborn@exis.net wrote:
-
- >: >For Those who want it!
-
- >: Asshole, you posted both a 15,001 and a 5,417 line post to a
- > ^^^^^?????
- >If you're walking down the street and someone accidently bumps into you,
- >do you shoot their head off and/or start a brawl? In the all the time that
-
- No.
-
- >I've been reading c.l.c, I've never seen the original (guilty) poster commit
- >any previous transgression. Granted it was a nasty mistake, but your
-
- Thank goodness.
-
- >nasty reply is out of proportion.
-
- The result produced made me wonder if my computer and/or ISP had
- gone crazy. I had about a half hour of being rather concerned about
- this until I figured it out. Jostles are rather less time consuming
- than this.
-
- >: newsgroup. This is an extreme waste of bandwidth. Are you aware of
- >: the havoc this causes? Some of us download all messages because most
- >: posters post reasonable length articles.
- >Bet he never knew that.
-
- I agree, but it's not difficult to guess it might be the case.
-
- >: A simple posting that the file was available at such-and-such
- >: would suffice.
- >So would a polite (1st time) notification. He probably thought he was
- >being helpful. Have a bit of humanity.
-
- So do many people who post that you can use void main() and other
- atrocities.
-
- I would prefer to remain at having a lot of humanity.
-
- >[snip ...]
- >: Gene Wirchenko
-
- >gary /* the Sorcerer's Apprentice */
-
- >"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?"
- >"Because we use vi, honey. They use emacs."
- >"Unless we're on the Mac. Then we use BBEdit 'cause 'It doesn't suck.'"
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Gene Wirchenko
-
- C Pronunciation Guide:
- y=x++; "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon"
- x=x++; "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon"
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