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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <52681f13$0$3197$e4fe514c at dreader36.news.xs4all.nl>,
	MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> 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.

You do realize this is one of those dead USENET groups, right?  :-)

> 
> 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>

What, are you the USENET police again.  I don't cry, I just have a low
tolerance for stupidity and assholes.

> 
> 
>> 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.

This is USENET.  And what does the date have to do with it?
This is the USENET Newsgroup comp.os.vms.

> 
> Also, hang on a moment... doesn't the above *recommend* to
> "CROSSPOST"?!  

Actually, in a different form I said exactly what I later confirmed
by posting the relevant part of the RFC.

>               I even kept it under the "five-to-six" limit.

Must have been high enough that some people's newsreaders dropped
it.  Personally, I don't even remember seeing it so it was either
dropped by my news server or reader or I just didn't care.

> (Is your reading comprehension, or reading ability itself,
> totally inept... or what?)
> 
> Either way, I'm most grateful for you wasting my time.

Congratulations.  You just crossed the dumbass line, too.

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
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