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Article #140Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale
From: Nicholas Buenk
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
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So he one of those people who still use a black & white tv and analog mobile phone. He would be bying a diligtal tv any time soon. >Robin Harrison wrote: > >> >>Usenet is a strictly text based medium > > ^^^^^^who says? > > >> >>and HTML only increases >> >>bandwidth to no good effect. >> > >I don't believe what I'm reading! A sci-fi buff advocating that we >should all remain in the dark ages because change makes him >uncomfortable!! > >> >People who have no clue that this is a shared resource, but see >> >it as anything else on their PC, something they can do what >> >they want with. >> > >yes, I quite agree - you can't have people doing whatever they want with >their own PC. It'll be all out anarchy! </sarcasm> > >> >Same as pirate software really. >> >you really hit the nail on the head that time! Using your PC to mail >hypertext is EXACTLY like illegally copying software. EXACTLY! > >> > >> >Those who do own the resources will eventually have to get rather >> >more agressive.. I hope. > >The easy solution is, I guess that you get yourselves a decent HTML >reader. Netscape is quite adequate for the job. Reading plain text does >not make you a more hardcore user than anyone else. > >CC. > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107319,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gid107319,public X-Google-Thread: 101ee4,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gid101ee4,public X-Google-Thread: fc53d,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gidfc53d,public X-Google-Thread: f6172,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gidf6172,public X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,public From: "Nicholas Buenk" <nospam@nospam.com> Subject: Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale Date: 1998/03/25 Message-ID: <6f9k5i$5gc$1@toto.tig.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 337384154 References: <35152718.7E4B3B51@tower.emu.net.au> <6f4fnc$13h$1@reader.omen.com.au> <6f4tgp$fjj$1@toto.tig.com.au> <352b5305.9619940@news.latrobe.edu.au> <slrn6hdgsd.g8d.zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <3518e463.5834764@news.latrobe.edu.au> <slrn6he6vq.qhk.zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <3519ad9d.6624177@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au> <3516BA08.4FDB8D56@pompeii.mpce.mq.edu.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: The Internet Group Ltd Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.books,aus.sf,aus.sf.babylon5,aus.sf.star-trek