Re: Stupid reposting service

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From: Andrew Cowie
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 18:23

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In article <1989Dec19.015853.18002@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> trier@shasta.UUCP (Stephen Trier) writes:
>in digest format, giving only the critical information?  (Critical information
>being: What is it?  Why is it worthwhile?  What is its message ID?)
>
>Something like this, on a weekly basis, could make it easier to find the
>sources, while avoiding the network bandwidth being gobbled by the reposts.

How about an extention to the weekly posting to alt.sources.index?
BTW, It would be nice if alt.sources.index had a brief description of what
     the programs do, IMHO.

--
Andrew F. Cowie at TVC Enterprises, Toronto, Canada.
uunet!mnetor!lethe!tvcent!andrew  andrew@tvcent.uucp

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<10282@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <5343@omepd.UUCP> <1989Dec17.041155.11834@sq.sq.com> <3dXJ028z75s201@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <BOB.89Dec18162114@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <1989Dec19.015853.18002@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!tvcent!andrew
From: andrew@tvcent.uucp (Andrew Cowie)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Stupid reposting service
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.182349.8291@tvcent.uucp>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:23:49 GMT
References: <10282@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <5343@omepd.UUCP> <1989Dec17.041155.11834@sq.sq.com> <3dXJ028z75s201@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <BOB.89Dec18162114@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <1989Dec19.015853.18002@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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