Message-Id: <13494.9608200818@vvl.co.uk>
To: hubble AT hem DOT passagen DOT se
Reply-To: ians AT vvl DOT co DOT uk
From: ians AT vvl DOT co DOT uk (Ian Stevenson)
Subject: Re: Is something wrong??
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 09:22:09 BST


hubble AT hem DOT passagen DOT se wrote :

>One day ago i posted a simple question about the 4byte large ints 32-bits
>compiler have.. and i got  11 answers, 
>all of them saying mostly exactly the same things.. I think this is very
>annoying and unnecessary, couldn't you guys 
>read what other people have answered before you post the same things?
>
>/Andreas Vernersson
>
There is quite a delay for many of us on the list between an article being 
posted by its author, and it appearing at our systems.  What happens is that 
people receive your mail, and respond to it, before they receive the 
responses from others.  

Personally I am grateful for any and all of the assistance I have received 
here, and often I find that if a number of posts say the same thing

1) It makes me more confident in the correctness of the response

2) They are often subtly different and reading them all can lead to a clearer
	understanding of the problem.

You may get a number of replies to this - not because people are ignoring 
what others have said, but simply because it hasn't arrived yet.

Ian