Poor manners on network (was Re: [braindamaged?] use of access(2) -- long note)

[Systems Programmer]

     In UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V4#186 Stephen J. Friedl (friedl at vsi.uucp)
writes:

	From: "Stephen J. Friedl" <friedl at vsi.uucp>
	Subject: Re: [braindamaged?] use of access(2) -- long note
	Date: 15 Mar 88 05:55:09 GMT
	Keywords: access(2), permissions, setuid/setgid
	To:       unix-wizards at SEM.BRL.MIL
	
	In article <305 at wsccs.UUCP>, terry at wsccs.UUCP (terry) writes:
	> Obviously, you have not heard of the link function,
	> which allows you to link a file to another file.
	
	Saying thinks like "obviously you have not heard of xxx" only
	irritates people, especially when they have indeed heard of it as
	I have.  Surely you can find a more constructive/pleasant way of
	offering your $.02.
	
I fully agree.  In fact, one of the primary reasons I so rarely
participate in the UWD conversations is that, while the majority
of persons posting items *do* maintain cordiality (or at least 
civility :-D ), there is an unfortunately large minority who are
apparently not thusly encumbered :-< and who thereby reduce the
usefulness of the Digest.  My continuing thanks go out to all
those on the net to whom the former rather than the latter applies 
because they have done so much to further my education.


                                       Scott Bennett
                                       Systems Programming
                                       Northern Illinois University
                                       DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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