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Subject: Re: Restrict Post
From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn @ idyllmtn . com>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:03:55 -0700 (PDT)
To: john @ worldhq . com (John Hodson)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199704060517.GAA06354@siltrain.demon.co.uk> from "John Hodson" at Apr 6, 97 06:17:16 am

John Hodson wrote:
> kynn@idyllmtn.com.
> Whilst I partly understand your attitude to RTFM, what gives you the right to
> express an opinion on behalf of all members of this list?

Who says I was speaking for you?  I was speaking for me.

> Would it not have been quicker and more polite to have simply answered the
> question, and then point out that a study of the config file for that list,
> or the basic documentation should have answered this?

Yes, but I'm a mean SOB.

Seriously, why can't people do their homework before asking us
to do it for them?  Figuring out how to restrict posting to the
list is trivial and well-documented.

Maybe I just expect more of people -- I expect them not to be
blathering idiots.  Unreasonable expectations?

--Kynn, still not speaking for all the members of the list


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