Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS and changing the path
Keywords: DOS, PATH
Message-ID: <11416@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 29 Jun 88 15:06:46 GMT
References: <761@naucse.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 39

I tried to mail this. I really tried to be as polite as I could, but
this pile of complaints against the people who work to keep the net
useful really gets to me.

In article <761@naucse.UUCP> wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
| I apologize for including a binary in this message but the
| people in charge of the binaries group will not have the
| decency to tell me how to post a program to that group.

  You seem to be able to figure out postnews well enough to post to this
group though. Who exactly refused to tell you? Was it the moderator
who's name you got from the list of moderators? Was it your system
administrator? You did, of course, read the manual, right?

  [ description of program deleted ]

| Again, I apologize for posting in this manner.  If someone
| will tell me how to get postings sent to the binaries area
| I will be glad to comply.  When I post I receive an error
| return of 10 and am told that I cannot post to that newsgroup.

  It also tells you that the article has been sent to the moderator who
will post it for you, unless your system administrator has shut off
posting to that group. You did check with him/her didn't you.

  The routine you posted may well be useful to many people, but the
reason we got binaries out of this group is that they make the volume
too high, and some sites may not carry the group at all if the volume
goes back up.

  Please read the manual and newuser postings. Perhaps the next time you
don't know how to do something you could ask in this group, rather than
doing it in an inappropriate way.

  [ hundreds of lines of binary deleted ]
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me