Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!ge-rtp!edison!rja
From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <1613@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 88 23:35:30 GMT
References: <1061@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Organization: GE-Fanuc North America
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In article <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>, donna@cfa250.harvard.edu (Donna Irwin x57134) writes:
> > From: rja 
> 
> > You haven't read the newsgroup news.annnounce.newuser and it is probably
> > your own fault . . . [some rude comments deleted] Don't
> > complain about the documentation before you read it -- RTFM !
(stuff deleted)
>  Allison Bell, using Donna's terminal

Either Allison deliberately edited the quote from my mail to change the
meaning OR my mail to Allison was mangled en route.

I actually placed equal blame on Allison and the news admin at that site;
the latter is probably overworked and underpaid.

In any event posting to a worldwide network asking for help on using the
net at that local site with unknown configuration BEFORE asking for help
from the local system administrators was clearly inappropriate.

If the postings are a test of some sort by Allison, the results ought to 
be interesting.  :-)