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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
- Message-ID: <t_y1Hoi?69@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet)
- Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
- References: <ASH.92Aug25094554@ulysses.mr.ams.com> <1992Aug25.151807.5561@prl.dec.com> <ASH.92Aug25125514@ulysses.mr.ams.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:33:29 GMT
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- In article <ASH.92Aug25125514@ulysses.mr.ams.com> ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder) writes:
- > >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Well that's just too friggin bad IMHO. If a person does not wish to spend
- the minimalist effort to read a newsgroup for a few weeks before posting
- a simplistic question then they deserved to be chastised. It's nice to
- want to help everyone with every simple question, but this is NOT
- comp.unix.questions, nor should it try to be.
-
- >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.
-
- The point is that you can't volunteer everyone to act as the archive master
- for the group, sending threads to hapless new posters. What is so horribly
- bad about reading a group for a few weeks before you post?
-
- --Dave
- --
- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
- Emacs is a fine operating system, but I still prefer UNIX. - Tom Christiansen
-