Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: harter@westminster.ac.uk (Ed Hart)
Subject: Re: That's enough.
Organization: University of Westminster
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 19:37:24 GMT
Message-ID: <Cz2H6F.2Gn@westminster.ac.uk>

Scott

In reply to yours and to two other complaints about my multiple
postings.

I am sorry if reading my postings has taken up your time
unnecessarily.

Let me explain that I continued posting because I continued to receive
replies.  I received around 2-5 replies to every single posting made,
including the later ones (I haven't kept complete records, and of
course I cannot always tell which reply was due to which posting).  I
believe this indicates a continuing interest in my message and is how I
justified my actions to myself.

Some netters will monitor events more frequently than others, which
means, given the short life span of current postings, that postings
will often be missed.  It is to these occasional users that my repeated
mailings were addressed.  I wished that everybody who wanted to read
the posting had a chance to read it, rather than to bully by repetition
- I assumed that anyone familiar with the message would simply ignore
it on spotting its title.  I fear that my intention in this respect may
have been misunderstood.

I fear also that your own response to my postings may be influenced by
its nature as an advertisement for a commercial product.  To this I can
only point once again to the reasonably high level of replies I have
received, of which the number of positive replies has swamped the
negative.

I also happen personally to especially welcome postings of the type I
have been making, ie references to literature, as it is so hard to keep
up-to-date without them; my book in particular contains a working
design tool - not something so easily obtained.  So many postings are
requests for information that I felt one which actually supplied
information might be useful.

    Ed Hart


