From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, PLING_QUERY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-18 05:29:12 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!aixssc.uk.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!ncohen From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: STOP!!! (WAS: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Date: 18 Nov 1994 13:29:12 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Distribution: world Message-ID: <3aia78$14o2@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> References: <3a6oc5$dkh@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <784995260snz@rippleco.demon.co.uk> <3ae1li$jsc@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rios8.watson.ibm.com Date: 1994-11-18T13:29:12+00:00 List-Id: In article <3ae1li$jsc@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, umyin@raphael.mctrf.mb.ca (Q Vincent Yin) writes: |> Could you guys stop cross-posting to comp.databases.sybase. We Sybase |> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |> sa/programmers don't care about your opinion of Ada!!!!!!! |> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This reasonable plea by several readers of other newsgroups has been so widely ignored that I can only conclude that many people don't know how to ascertain and control the set of newsgroups to which their posts are targeted. With xrn, at least, it is quite easy. When I click on the Followup button, an editing session pops up in which the first few lines of the file contain header information that is read by your news server when you save the file and exit the editor. For my current posting, the second line of the file orginally read: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.databases.oracle,comp.client-server I edited this line to read Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada so now this posting will go only to comp.lang.ada instead of to all the newsgroups originally listed. That's all there is to it. This act of common courtesy takes only a second of your time. I realize that this information is well-known to many of you, but a handful of gratuitous cross-postings can create a lot of resentment. -- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com