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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!vince
- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: TO ALL THOSE WHO THINK THE VOLUME IN comp.os.linux IS TOO HIGH
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.032101.21263@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <1992Dec11.051830.5617@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:21:01 GMT
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- tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
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- >To all those who think the volume in comp.os.linux has gotten too high.
- >(And I agree, although I think that splitting the group won't help
- >things.) I have a simple suggestion.
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- >Every time you see a message that is off-topic --- that is, the people
- >are off flaming about whether or not Fortran is a dead language, or
- >whether nor not Windows is a realm operating system, and so on --- each
- >of you, send personal mail politely asking that person to take the
- >discussion off comp.os.linux.
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- another way to do it is to quietly put the subject in your newsreader's
- kill file if you're reading news rather than getting a mailing list...
-
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