Re: The Tao Of Backup: End of postings.

From: Wayne Brown (fwbrown_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 07/04/03 

Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 23:13:00 GMT

SW <abanab@ab.com> wrote:
> Wayne Brown wrote:
>>
>> Here's a quote from one of the USENET pioneers, Chuq Von Rospach:
>>
>> " Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up
>>

> Might you be able to put a date on that quote? I could see one of those
> "pioneers" making such a statement in the days when the Usenet population
> was alot smaller, spam didn't exist yet, and posters always used their real
> address in postings.

My article contained the following attribution after the quoted material:

| (Excerpt taken from "A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community,"
| by Chuq Von Rospach, posted 21 May 1991 by Gene Spafford.) 

-- 
Wayne Brown                | "When your tail's in a crack, you improvise
fwbrown@bellsouth.net      |  if you're good enough.  Otherwise you give
                           |  your pelt to the trapper."
"e^(i*pi) = -1"  -- Euler  |           -- John Myers Myers, "Silverlock"

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