🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 03 Feb 1997 13:31:47 +00000, Stephen Way
<Steveway@ways.x.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article: <9702030000.2l9d@pierrot.co.uk>  Terrance Richard Boyes 
><tez@pierrot.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> Dan Glover (dan@dangl.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> > In message <32f0fe0b.262367773@news.prestel.co.uk>, Stephen Milner 
><dustbin@elrick.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>> > 
>> > >Prestel's (who use theplanet) newserver lets me click on post and 
>> > >when I immediately download messages I get the one's I've just 
>> > >posted back.
>> > 
>> > What is it with this "I want to get my messages back" thing anyway? 
>> 
>> It's a reasonable measure of speed, a lot of other news services have 
>> a turnaround that can be measured in minutes not hours.
>>  
>> > current arrangements here mean I get my postings to appear back in 
>> > the group *before* they even get sent to Demon.
>> 
>> And hence you can't be sure that all of them are getting anywhere 
>> apart from your machine...
>
>You mean you all exist outside my PC?

I used to have a buzzword generator (press Ctrl-Alt-B and up
popped some deeply meaningful technobabble), I presumed
Agent was just an upgraded Windows version.

Norman