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Article #628Re: aus.politics cancelled
From: Gregory Bond
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <1995Dec22.143737.25042@levels.unisa.edu.au> xtdn@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
As you point out, it is _trivial_ to set up your news reader to ignore
the posts of people who, in your opinion, are likely to post uninteresting
news.
That is NOT what I said, and the problem is NOT fixable with
kill-files, unless EMACS suddenly gets a time-travel module.
Go away and think about the problem some more. Consider the multitude
of various newsreaders, especially the PC or Mac based offline readers
that have to download atricles beore deciding to kill them.
Greg, who remembers when USENET was a megabyte a day.
--
Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia
``Efforts to maintain the "purity" of a language only succeed in establishing an
elite class of people who know the shibboleths. Ordinary folks know better,
even if they don't know what "shibboleth" means.'' - Larry Wall
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