From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 11:02:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12827 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA12758 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 19378 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Jan 1999 12:34:26 -0000 Message-ID: <19990111123426.19377.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:34:25 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apology for multiple posts (Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition) References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> <3697C1E1.89AA2277@uk.radan.com> In-reply-to: <3697C1E1.89AA2277@uk.radan.com> of Sat, 09 Jan 1999 20:53:53 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Sorry for the multiple posts of my last message. It's generally a sound idea to find out *what* has happened, especially with email, rather than blindly repeating a command which has the capability to annoy a lot of people. > Netscape kept saying it had a problem and couldn't deliver the message. > I kept trying to re-send it. Turns out it had sent it but for some > reason couldn't copy it to my Sent folder. Yet more evidence for my claim that Netscape is the ideal vehicle for the "how not to write software" class. There are real mail programs out there -- why not use one of them? -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message