🚀 go-pugleaf

Gregory Bond (gnb@bby.com.au) wrote:
: 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.

It has one, surely ?-)

: 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.

Shouting at David will get you no-where in a hurry, trust me ;-)

: Greg, who remembers when USENET was a megabyte a day.

Mark, who remembers the day TCP/IP became 'official', when the IBM PC
was released, when munnari went on-line for the first time and when
a skinny computer geek helped him install UNIX V.3.2 on a _very_
mis-used Stride 440...

White hair <damnit>, at least it's in season. Merry whatever.


: --
: 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