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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: gawk-2.14.tar has been uploaded to US4BINR
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.212131.3128@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <n1241t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:21:31 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <n1241t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >On <Dec 18 18:35> Larry Snyder writes:
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- > LS> I agree. It is becoming a waste of space to post this so frequently.
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- >I disagree. If you don't want to see them, just add them to your kill file.
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- I agree with Larry; it is not necessary to post a separate, detailed
- description of every package they ftp from somewhere. A weekly *single*
- article with a five-line summary of newly acquired items that are not
- widely available would be much more useful, and would get US4BINR out
- of my killfile.
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- As it is, they are wasting space and bandwidth.
-
- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
-