On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.gentoo, in article
<1185596103.357107.14860@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>, wiredkiwi wrote:

>New to Linux? Migrating from Windows or OSX?

1855 Netiquette Guidelines. S. Hambridge. October 1995. (Format:
TXT=46185 bytes) (Also FYI0028) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

That RFC (which you can find using the same search engine you are posting
from) recommends reading a news group for a month before posting to it.
Given the capability of that search engine and the fact that it's
archiving this (and the other groups you multi-posted to), it would
take only a few minutes to discover that your post is way off target.

>Firstly, please don't misinterpret this post as spam.

Why not? It may not be banging on the Breidbart Index, but it is
"Excessive Multi-Posting" (EMP) which has the same meaning as the term
"spam" usually carries, but it is more accurate and self-explanatory.
EMP means, essentially, "too many separate copies of a substantively
identical article." "Substantively identical" means that the material
in each article is sufficiently similar to construe the same message.

And if you're wondering where that comes from, perhaps you should read
the article "FAQ: Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" which
is posted every Sunday to the Usenet newsgroups
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins, news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, news.admin.net-abuse.misc,
and news.answers.

>I've been using Linux for a short time only - I was "bumped" in to the
>Linux arena through a promotion at work which required me to service
>Fedora based servers in 50+ locations. I've always been a Windows/OSX
>person myself, but I quickly found Linux to be an amazingly capable
>OS.

And I suppose that means you also posted articles to Fedora newsgroups.
You may want to notice that Gentoo and SuSE are not Fedora. Why did you
post to such a lively group as "alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions"? Did
you even bother to notice what the character of that group is? Or is
it just another newsgroups with the word 'linux' in the name? By the
way why are you posting from google instead of using the news server
your ISP provides?

Old guy