[Info-vax] update on publications (part of: "FS: OpenVMS documentation, LK-series keyboards, SCSI HDDs and more")

[MG]

On 23-okt-2013 20:48, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> I should probably just let this go because it seems once again
> that

What's there to teach about the USENET... more importantly, what
the hell for?  It's, like VMS, hanging by a thread and is on the
way out.  Most USENET groups are already dead.

I was just trying to be pragmatic, if you understand what that
amounts to.


> I am trying to teach a pig to sing, but......

Say, didn't you run away from this place?  I remember you ran
away crying almost, after that /awful/ Roland Hughes, 'pestered'
you away.

<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/itTUyLmXC7M/TFQFt6BQtDEJ>


> RFC 1855, Page 11
>
>        If you feel an article will be of interest to more than one
>        Newsgroup, be sure to CROSSPOST the article rather than individually
>        post it to those groups.  In general, probably only five-to-six
>        groups will have similar enough interests to warrant this.
>
>
> Thus the reason some newsreaders drop messages crossposted to  more
> than the recommended number of groups.

Again, this is not the 1980s or '90s; in fact, hardly anyone is
still even using USENET.

Also, hang on a moment... doesn't the above *recommend* to
"CROSSPOST"?!  I even kept it under the "five-to-six" limit.
(Is your reading comprehension, or reading ability itself,
totally inept... or what?)

Either way, I'm most grateful for you wasting my time.

  - MG