Re: how to view all tables?

It might be satisfying after a long hard day to flame those who don't follow the rules of news, but it is infinitely more productive to remind people that there are rules and to point them to where to find them.

Read my rest below.

Malcolm Dew-Jones wrote:
> Scott Mattes (Scott_at_TheMattesFamily.ws) wrote:
> : DA Morgan wrote:
> (snip)
> : > Please do. And please also read the FAQ and usenet rules. I will help
> : > the entire community.
> : >
>
> : Sad refrain "and where is the FAQ?" or the "usenet rules"
>
> How about looking for them? It's not too hard.

My ISP has over 10k worth of newsgroups (closer to 20k), and N* is way down the list, and IF a newbie even knew to start looking there, it would take awhile to find it, or to overlook it during an IEBEYEBALL scan. I didn't count, but there are very many NEWS.* groups, not to mention the *NEWS.* groups.

> Places like
> news.announce.newusers
> would be a good start.

Thank you, I knew if I mentioned it someone would put out the useful information for all to see.

> news.* has all the details for every aspect of usenet, including how to
> start new groups, fake groups for testing your reader program, etc etc
> etc.
>
> There are also RFC's on the topic - if you care to look for them.
>
> It's all right there waiting to be read, some of it has been sitting there

it just isn't intuitively obvious to the casual observer where to start, what to look for or how to recognize it when it bites them.

> for a decade or more, and guess what, even messages posted years ago on
> obscure topics - but which followed the long suggested rules on posting
> (such as not top posting and quoting in context) - are all still useful
> documents to those who have a reason to read them.
>
> You may find it useful to get "your" reply at the top of "your" question,
> but it makes little sense to anyone else later on.
>
>
> --
>
> This space not for rent.
Received on Fri Apr 15 2005 - 14:28:42 CDT