Re: Most irrelevant query

Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu)
Tue, 26 Jul 94 0:42:25 EDT

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> I'm sure every FAQ maintainer occasionally gets a query in which the
> reader includes the entire FAQ and a tiny little question at the end (or even
> no question at all). I get these about 5-6 times a month.

Same here. I feel sure that the majority of these responses
result from someone unfamiliar with their system failing to
save their message before exiting.

> However, the enclosed message strikes me as being the most irrelevant
> question I've received in 5+ years of maintaining FAQs. (I've deleted
> the contents of the Lisp FAQ which were included in the message.)

I get an occasional query which has nothing to do whatsoever
with erotica. The last had something to do with SCSI
controllers, I think. They seem to come from systems where
the software does not tell the user too loudly which group
he is posting to, and so users can easily post to adjacent
groups in their .newsrc by accident.

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