From: Thomas Demmer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Curious Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:15:30 +0100 Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik Lines: 35 Message-ID: <33294162.167E@LSTM.Ruhr-UNI-Bochum.De> References: <5gb1pf$g1r AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bvb.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Paul Derbyshire wrote: > > A lot of people seem to reply to my articles by posting and cc'ing a copy > to my personal e-mail. I find this a bit peculiar. Perhaps some people > don't read the group regularly, and pop in with a question and out and > look for mailed answers, but I for one should be familiar to you all as > someone that clearly reads the group daily or nearly so. :) Maybe you should start thinking before posting in such a tone. To me, as a non-native speaker of english, you style of writing is really annoying. But then again, I might be wrong. Nevertheless, given you know enough about the organization of the usenet news server hierarchy, you also know that the time for spreading news can be up to 3 days. You probably also know news feeds can go down, do you? You also know that most humans are impatient to get an answer to their urgent questions. In some 80% of all cases mail is by way faster.So, I wouldn't consider this ``peculiar'', but rather a ``kind of service''. -- Ciao Tom ************************************************************* * Thomas Demmer * * Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik * * Ruhr-Uni-Bochum * * Universitaetsstr. 150 * * D-44780 Bochum * * Tel: +49 234 700 6434 * * Fax: +49 234 709 4162 * * http://www.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~demmer * *************************************************************