Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale

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From: Ian Galbraith
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:00

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On 23 Mar 1998 20:18:22 GMT, zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU (Zebee
Johnstone) wrote:

:On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:20:26 GMT, Ian Galbraith wrote:
:>The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. 

:But the mountain is voting.  
:
:Sysadmins of news servers don;t like HTML in posts for the same
:reason they don;t like binaries - they take up too much space.
:
[snip]

I think you've misunderstood me. The quote is from the TV series B5, and I
was referring to the fact that we're obviously seeing all the new Uni
students come onto the Usenet without a clue and behaving like idiots. I
know Usenet is a strictly text based medium and HTML only increases
bandwidth to no good effect.

Be Seeing You
--
Ian Galbraith
igalbraith@ozonline.com.audelete_this
(To email me remove delete_this from my address)

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could 
produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the 
Internet, we know this is not true."
- Robert Wilensky

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From: igalbraith@ozonline.com.audeletethis (Ian Galbraith)
Subject: Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale
Date: 1998/03/24
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