Re: Small C "Puzzle"

From: Minti (mintiSPAMBLOCK_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 31 Aug 2004 04:49:48 -0700

Keith Thompson wrote:
> "Minti" <mintispamblock@yahoo.com> writes:
> > "Keith Thompson" <kst-u@mib.org> wrote in message
> > news:lnr7ppi4vx.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org...
> > > Minti:
> > >
> > > You e-mailed me a question in response to something I posted on
this
> > > thread. Please post any questions to the newsgroup. If you must
send
> > > me e-mail, don't use a spam-blocked return address. (If
kissmyass.com
> > > is meant to be a spam trap, you should pick a different one; it
> > > happens to be a real domain, and you could be subjecting its
owner to
> > > spam that was meant for you.)
> >
> > Thanks, my mail program is configured to send both mail and post it
to the
> > newsgroup, however as a I later checked up after disconnecting that
it had
> > failed to upload the message. Ooops.
>
> Please reconfigure your mail program so it *doesn't* send your both
> messages both by e-mail and to the newsgroup.
>
> More precisely, it's your mail program, so you can configure it any
> way you like, but please don't send *me* e-mail messages that
> duplicate what you post to Usenet. I'm sure that most other people
> here feel the same way (I've seen plenty of complaints about the
> practice). My complaint wasn't that your message didn't show up on
> the newsgroup, it was that it did show up in my mailbox.

Thanks, even I dislike posts coming up to my mail. I will do so ASAP.

>
> And please seriously consider what I wrote above about kissmyass.com.

YMMV. But you mention that you could not mail me because of this
address. However/FYI I do sometimes care to add my mail address in my
sig..

HAND 

-- 
Imanpreet Singh Arora
isingh AT acm DOT org

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