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Re[2]: Canceling multiple newsgroup postings

Joseph N.
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:15:22 -0700

   On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, Peter Lairo wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>>>If the developers wanted their groups to be closed, they should have
>>>moved them to a closed server and opened up the public servers to
>>>end users.

>>Graham, nicely put.

> Not really. It has been pointed out a nauseating number of times that it 
> is difficult to do, and that it is being worked on.
> How hard is it really to find:
> http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/support.html ? It's linked to from many 
> places by now.
> Get used to it!

Get used to what? To public newsgroups being unlisted and secure,
while the developers' have deliberately abandoned their previous
friendliness in order to adopt an intentionally hostile attitude in
order to discourage non-developers from their public newsgroups? Or to
the same attitude being adopted here? I can sometimes stomach
arrogance coming from someone who's got a decent point to make, but
some have displayed more attitude on this mailing list lately than
helpfulness. For example, your condescending response had little to do
with Graham's or my comment. And, while I'll take your word for the
fact that changing the servers or addresses might be difficult or
might have been addressed a number of times, it hasn't been very
obvious; I'm all over some of these newsgroups, and I've never seen
it; presumably Graham hasn't either. Maybe you and others who have
jumped on the recent nastiness program should just tolerate the
ignorant faithful in your midst. At least we're on the right path,
even if we can't hope to attain your level of enlightenment.

-- 
JN