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- From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp>
- Reply-To: bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
- Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
- References: <9070PB1w164w@underg.UUCP> <1992Aug29.235059.23907@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <UecUwQO00iUz81B9Qv@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:05:48 GMT
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- In article <UecUwQO00iUz81B9Qv@andrew.cmu.edu> sean+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean McLinden) writes:
- >
- >I suspect that the best way to approach this would be a general posting to
- >the entire netnews community informing them, in a succinct manner, what is
- >the situation, what are the issues and alternatives, and what is the
- >recommended course of action (switching long distance carriers).
- >
- >[...] It should be
- >posted to ALL newsgroups as it affects all of us.
-
- It should NOT be posted to all newsgroups.
-
- First, it does not affect "all of us." People reading news under
- VMS, DOS, MacOS, and other non-UNIX operating systems may not care
- about AT&T's legal actions regarding UNIX.
-
- Second, a huge number of newsgroups are clearly inappropriate for
- this type of posting. Readers of rec.music.gdead or sci.aquaria
- or even comp.sources.unix really don't need to have "Boycott AT&T"
- messages shoved in their faces.
-
- Third, it is extremely bad netiquette to indulge in massive
- cross-posting. It's annoying. And in some (non-UNIX) sectors of
- the net it wastes disk space -- you're talking about >1000 extra
- articles if you include the alt.* groups.
-
- If you're confused about any of this, please read the articles
- with the following titles in news.announce.newusers:
-
- Rules for posting to Usenet
- A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
- --
- Any opinions above are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of SAI.
- Bryan Curnutt
- bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
-