Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!haven!purdue!decwrl!megatest!djones From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Pen Pals Message-ID: <837@goofy.megatest.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 18:30:33 GMT References: <1647@tahoe.unr.edu> Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca Lines: 29 Followup-to: > In article <457@coplex.UUCP> alan@coplex.UUCP (Alan Bunch) writes: > >Hello there world !! > >Since I dont know if there a group for this Ill post to several and hope. > >My name is Alan .... and I live in Louisville Kentucky and would like >to contact people who are interested in 'lectronic pen pals so to speak. > An open letter to... Alan, There are a few things you need to know about the "net". One is that posting something to more than two or three groups simultaneously is usually not a good idea. I suggest that you read net.announce.newusers. One more thing you should know is that there are, regrettably, lots of very insensitive people who post to the net, who may direct very rude responses to you, if you do something which they consider to be improper. Glean what useful information you can from such postings, but give the insults the attention they deserve: none whatsoever. Best of luck, Dave