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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!unix1!gardabr
- From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen)
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.124657.29387@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: MRIH, More og Romsdal Ingeniorhogskole
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
- References: <1e2qa8INNlf1@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:46:57 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@coombs.anu.edu.au) wrote:
- : avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- :
- : >p.s. its not uncommon for people to have trouble getting posting working
- : > when they first use news. Quite often they get lumped with rn and
- : > postnews <(I'm not saing there is anything wrong with postnews! :-)>
- : > which can be not nice to use first time.
- :
- : He used tin, it shows quite blatently in the X-Newsreader header.
- : Now, if this "non-computerhead" can find the H (for help.. Oooooo) key
- : he can find help, and maybe he might notice that the reason why he cant
- : followup to some of the postings is that they have "followup-to: dev.null"
- :
- When there is a redirected followup to dev.null, I get a warning about this.
- Therefore, the followup was not redirected to dev.null. Read my lips: you
- have to know my setup before you can be sure enough to comment on how silly
- I am. Gee! You sound like my brother. He logged in on guest on unix1 another
- day and was wondering why the heck things weren't EXACTLY as he was used to.
- What the hell was vi, and what the hell was emacs? Why couldn't he get the
- editor he was used to?
-
- /Gard - Say no to unattended disclaimers.
-