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- From: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder)
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
- In-Reply-To: boyd@prl.dec.com's message of Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:18:07 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:55:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.151807.5561@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
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- >> This seems like a legitimate question for comp.unix.shell. If the
- >> question bothers you, don't answer it.
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- >What bothers me is that _this very thread_ has been done to death
- >over the past few weeks in _this very newsgroup_:
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- . (news headers deleted)
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- >If the orignal poster had bother to read the traffic he'd know the answer.
- >Not reading the FAQ is bad, but _ignoring the traffic_ -- give me a break.
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- But the problem is that a question-poster may not have access to the
- old traffic. On our system, for example, we can only keep two days
- worth of news, due to disk space considerations. We don't all work
- for DEC, you know. Some of us have limits on our resources. You
- didn't even know if the poster had access to that news. Give HIM a
- break. If you have that thread on disk, send the old posts to him in
- email. That is a helpful thing to do. Responding with sarcasm isn't.
-