There's been an increase in people posting non-SSH PuTTY-related questions

to comp.security.ssh, posting queries that are clearly about PuTTY to
newsgroups without actually mentioning PuTTY, and so on. They may have been
directed there by this document :( Add a futile attempt to instil a sense of
etiquette.

[originally from svn r6895]

diff --git a/doc/feedback.but b/doc/feedback.but
index 0949fb202167d948b9955f2e19d61bc55a365e1f..fe6492720e53d976238a0a10d881fde1a7575ed1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/feedback.but
+++ b/doc/feedback.but
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ specific to using the SSH protocol;
 \b \W{news:comp.terminals}\c{comp.terminals}, for issues relating to
 terminal emulation (for instance, keyboard problems).
 
+Please use the newsgroup most appropriate to your query, and remember
+that these are general newsgroups, not specifically about PuTTY.
+
 If you don't have direct access to Usenet, you can access these
 newsgroups through Google Groups
 (\W{http://groups.google.com/}\cw{groups.google.com}).