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Original to: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu
On <18.01.00>, a small alien, dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (3:713/602), bleeped :

 d> We're doing the best we can to make it easy for you to skip the
 d> messages you don't like.  We can't create an advocacy newsgroup over
 d> night, and this is the next best thing.  Read your newsreader's manual
 d> for information on how to construct a "kill file" that will
 d> automagically mark as read any messages with "ADVOCACY" in the subject
 d> line.

Unfortunately, Vincent, like myself, is a FidoNet person, so we don't use rn
or anything like that which has a kill file as such. We read our mail at
home from the comfort of GEM and in conjunction with a BBS. It can be done,
but is rather pointless because regardless of whether we had a kill file or
not, we still have to pay money (in terms of phonebills and subscription to
Internet to
FidoNet gateways) to read all your wonderful postings, whether we want to or
not.

There is no method of excluding messages from a newsgroup we receive via the
gateway, so we have no choice but to either receive all or none of the
postings. Not that anyone ever worries about this when they set up these
'ADVOCACY' style thing, because you're got to cater to the majority of
users.

You're one of the lucky ones, Dave, with access to a commodity that most of
us can only dream about... free mail...ftp...kill files...

 d> Dave Baggett

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