Re: "Test Driving Linux" Released by O'Reilly

From: Brian K. White (brian_at_aljex.com)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: 25 May 2005 16:27:26 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@jpr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: "Test Driving Linux" Released by O'Reilly

> In article <02ea01c55fbc$a62af290$6b00000a@venti>,
> Brian K. White <brian@aljex.com> wrote:
>
>>OK I hate to be a party pooper but think I'm kinda tired of the
>>ads if they are going to be this frequent.
>
>>I don't mind, actually I appreciate, the occasional advertizement
>>showing up here if the product is on topic and not otherwise well
>>known, or _infrequent_ informative updates about products even if
>>they are well known as long as they are topical.
>
>>While many of the O'Reilly books are topical here, and these ads
>>could be called informative updates, they are apparently not
>>going to be infrequent and I think everyone knows for a long time
>>by now that the O'Reilly books exist, where to find them, that
>>new ones are always coming out, and what their average usefulness
>>is.
>
> All the O'Reilly ads I see are in comp.unix.sco.announce.

I'm using an email gateway that I thought was just c.u.s.m, and hitting
reply in my mail client it tries to use c.u.s.m
I see now that merely the Followup-To: has been set to c.u.s.m, probably by
the mail gateway, but it was enough to mislead me.

My Apologies.
I don't normally read .announce, the gateway is apparently collecting
several sco ng's into one mail list. I don't know but I guess I wouldn't
have a problem with such announcements going there. It depends on the
charter for that ng. I can very easily imagine that ng's purpose being for
sco related announcements and if so, then these would be spam there too
unless there was an o'reilly book specifically about sco. 

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