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Re: easier way to receive newsgroup replies?

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From: Bane of the Spammerz
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
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Solutions:
1) quit spamming 20 newsgroups at once, dildo.
2) quit using anything made by microsuck.

Adrian Webb wrote:
> 
> I've just recently got on to the internet and spent some time leaning how
> to use atlantis mail as well as MS internet news. But with neither of these
> can i just log on and automatically receive news messages to the article
> that i posted in several newsgroups. It took me about ten minutes to go to
> each
> newsgroup and look for my subject and then look for Re:subject because
> sometimes it seems some people don't quite reply properly to the newsgroup.
> Then i have to expand the thread and select any replies. Then i have to do
> this with all the other newsgroups i have sent to for each message! Luckily
> with MS internet mail you can go to a newsgroup just by clicking on the
> hyperlink which is a lot easier than having to remember all the newsgroups
> (and subjects) that you have sent out to. Is this what everybody does or is
> there some different software that everybody else is using?
> 
> Many times people reply to *all* the newsgroups i sent to so i get a lot of
> spam. I'd like also to be able to automatically save newsgroup replies to
> me but after i log off i have to select all my messages to save them
> (although i suppose i could do that online) but still i then have go to my
> saved messages folder and delete all the spam.
> 
> If i want to check to next day to see if i have received any more newsgroup
> replies then i have to do this all again, although i can tell which
> messages i have already downloaded but i have to do this within the number
> of days i've selected in the options before downloaded messages are
> deleted. Going to check to see if i've received any newsgroup replies is
> some thing which i'd rather do every few days rather than every few hours
> which is a hassle if your in a hurry to receive a messages.
> 
> I have used the BBS network fidonet. Atleast with fidonet people replied to
> you and not your subject. Receiving email replies is easy because its sent
> to you unlike newsgroup replies. Why can't we have an option to see if
> there have been any replies to a subject which you have sent out to the
> newsgroups?
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From: Bane of the Spammerz <beemer@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: easier way to receive newsgroup replies?
Date: 1997/12/15
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