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Posted by David Combs on August 27, 2006, 2:57 am
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>> > [advice against multi-posting snipped]
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>> >> Man, whenever *I* try that (crossposting), do I get flamed!
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>> > Please make sure you know the difference between multi-posting and
>> > cross-posting, and why one is bad and the other is OK. OK?
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>> FYI, I am pretty sure David's post a humor piece.
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>Apologies to David from the humor-impaired.
Nope, not a joke.
At my ISP (panix.com (in NYC)), I and a whole huge bunch
of people use "shell accounts", actually old-time "timesharing",
like on a dec-20 or vax or the like.
You log in, and you're sitting at a bash prompt (I switch
to tcsh), just like at home.
Plus, you're connected to the net, via eg lynx, mutt, trn4, etc.
Anyway, they have this local newsgroup, panix.questions, with
(like here) all these super-smart people on it.
I s**t you not, this bunch of people HATE cross-posting,
and if they ever got physical access to someone who
did it, they'd tie him/her to the stake and set it afire.
You say to them "well, isn't it useful *sometimes* (rarely)",
well, it'd be like asking Cheney "yeah, but shouldn't
we be asking if it was anything we (USA) did that
made them so angry?"!
David
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