[BALUG-Talk] A little help to buy a computer

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Sun Feb 15 09:40:28 PST 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 01:45 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> [Cutting my response roster to just one mailing list.]
> 
> Quoting Baptiste (o.w.i.m.ooo at gmail.com):
> 
> > To: balug-talk at lists.balug.org, svlug at lists.svlug.org  
> 
> Wow, I sure wish you wouldn't do that.  Inevitably, a lot of the people
> who try to reply to you will reply-all even though they're not on both
> mailing lists, resulting in quite a lot of held postings that the
> listadmin has to process manually -- which listadmin happens in both
> cases to be me.
> 
> There are other, more purely social adverse effects that tend to occur
> from cross-posting in many cases, though I'd rather not get into that,
> here.
> 

In about 2 weeks I'm going to be publishing a new book titled "How to
Start a Flame War: and other ways of making a PIA of yourself on the
Net".  Would you like to contribute a chapter or two?  I'm certain we
are going to make the NY Times Best Sellers List.

Ruben

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