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Subject: 
Re: stupid question
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.promo
Date: 
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 05:17:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Stanley writes:
Jon Bosman <orbitalstarcraft@hotmail.com> wrote:
this is a very stupid question but how do i post a new thread?
please email me at orbitalstarcraft@hotmail.com because I don't
check this newsgroup. thanks
Jon

Wow, that's violating one of the core rules of behaviour for
discussion groups.

Here's what it sounds like to us:

Hey, I can't figure this out, so I want one of you people to help
me.  Oh, but don't post it here, because my time is too valuable to
waste wading through all your posts to find the one where you try to
help me.  So e-mail it to me so I have to waste as little of my
valuable time as possible.

Kinda funny, wouldn't you say?

Especially since he's asking how to post a new thread here that he apparently
doesn't intend to follow...?



Message has 2 Replies:
  How to Post (was: "stupid question")
 
(...) To be fair, the original question should be answered here for the record. You must "drill down" to a specific newsgroup in order to post. (Choose from the list of links at the top of the page.) Once you are down in the hierarchy at least one (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
  Re: stupid question
 
(...) ...and even more so because he's actually posting a new thread to ask how to post a new thread, rather silly when you stop to think about it. D'oh! LFB. (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)

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  Re: stupid question
 
(...) Wow, that's violating one of the core rules of behaviour for discussion groups. Here's what it sounds like to us: Hey, I can't figure this out, so I want one of you people to help me. Oh, but don't post it here, because my time is too valuable (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)

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