Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading

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From: Henry Mensch
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 20:52

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richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) wrote: 
->It seems to be conventional wisdom that users actually _want_ to
->do a shell-escape to grep a spool directory for something.

actually, i think it is something that the individuals posting to this
space want to do ... but i don't think this is what the general
population wants.

->Personally, I'd much rather have a newsreader and news transport which has
->this kind of capability built in.  ...

much better.

--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>

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From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Subject: Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading
Message-ID: <1992Oct4.063823.8036@ads.com>
Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
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