Re: Telnet to ftoomsh etc...

Ryan Shelswell (ryan@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 26 Oct 1995 11:41:36 +1000 (EST)

On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Joshua Graham Pitcher wrote:
>
> May I make a suggestion? If you're going to post a reply to something
> that was put on the mailing list when a user didn't know where else to
> go, and if that reply is going to be a whinge or flame, don't bother.
> I'm not a unix user either. I'll be willing to bet that I'm not the only
> non-unix user in ProgSoc either. I wouldn't haev a clue where to post
> the question that Joshua posted. I'd hope that I wouldn't be flamed for
> what I'd hope would be considered perhaps "unix-newbiness".

I do take Raz's points in general. Although, it's not the newbies on this
list that show a lack of courtesy... I doubt anyone could hold up an
argument that the list is clogged by newbie requests (as opposed to some
usenet groups).

Ryan