Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!twitch!hoqax!twb From: twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Descriptive Info. WAS Re: v04i043: Jetroff Basic Fonts (01 of 27) Message-ID: <1836@hoqax.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 13:56:35 GMT References: <8808241033.AA20685@uunet.UU.NET> <1804@hoqax.UUCP> <12595@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 20 In article <12595@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: < As quoted from <1804@hoqax.UUCP> by twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie): < +--------------- < | What is Jetroff? < | Why doesn't the posting indicate what it is? < | Why does this sort of thing happen so often? < +--------------- < < It happens so often because I'm supposed to get stuff out FAST, not take time < to read the sources and figure out exactly what everything is and then write < a description. < < JetRoff is a shareware ditroff-to-HP-LaserJet filter. It seems like the author of a 27 part posting could be asked to supply a description of what the posting is. ALL postings should have a "One-Liner" or better supplied to the Moderator. Certainly the Moderator should not have to figure out what everything is. Tom.