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From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.os.minix,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Ramblings about the Convention
Message-ID: <1993Apr30.170338.9149@n5ial.mythical.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 17:03:38 GMT
References: <jmonroyC5tv90.791@netcom.com> <jmonroyC5zCDu.1DB@netcom.com> <1rb0vi$f5e@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: what, ME???  you must be joking.
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In article <1rb0vi$f5e@agate.berkeley.edu> garrett@garnet.berkeley.edu
(Garrett D'Amore) writes:

>I don't know who else I speak for, but this whole thread seems rather  
>irrelevant to Linux -- at least from my perspective.

I have also been trying to figure out just how this is related to Linux....
this guy isn't who I've been told is working on the QIC-40 drivers for
Linux, so I don't know what he's up to.  perhaps it's all just flame-bait?

>Please either move
>your ramblings to e-mail, another group, or learn to post concise, relevant 
>material so as to spare the rest of us the agony of trying to figure out
>what the post is, and what its doing on c.o.l.

and just a suggestion, in the mean time (for those who read comp.os.linux
via the mailing list, this doesn't help much...sorry), you might add the
following to your KILL file (as I just did):
/jmonroy@netcom.com/h:j

that way, his posts don't bother you.  I'm also using the Trash option
(much faster than Kill) in trn on this thread.  of course, it still wastes
bandwidth and hard disk space, but he doesn't get an audience (and the
resulting flames), which is what people who post flame-bait are after....

now it's time to get back to what this group is supposed to be for...Linux.
   --jim

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