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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.223138.274@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:31:38 GMT
- References: <F5557UC@geminix.in-berlin.de> <102.26574@incc.com>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <102.26574@incc.com>, jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
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- | Who is the irresponsible bastard who posts large files in a non source
- | newsgroup.
- |
- | I have to pay for my news, plus I have to pay for the US-Europe phone
- | call and I am not impressed having to pay to get this crap.
- |
- | What is the ruling regarding posting large files like this?
-
- The ruling is that when a new version of something comes along, used
- by thousands of people and contributed freely by the author, you hit
- the N key and politely say "thanks for the new version." You don't post
- flames because, like the loaves and fishes, they are going to come back
- manyfold.
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-