Article View: wa.general
Article #144Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale
From: Robin Harrison
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
33 lines
2270 bytes
2270 bytes
Dave Nagle <dnagle@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>claw@ozemail.com.au (Chris Lawson) wrote:
>
>> Go and read about the Tragedy of the Commons, and see how your
>> sarcasm goes there.
>
>[snip]
>
>> Netscape and Explorer are crap newsreaders.
>
>[snip]
>
>> I like Ferraris, but I wouldn't drive one across the Simpson Desert.
what about the Cannonball Run? Huh? Across the centre of Australia, in
really fast cars...
... that go splat when crashed ...
>All of which is terribly relevant to most (all?) of these groups,
>but at least it wasn't in html, so the common isn't being abused.
>
>Anyway, what _does_ Free Agent have that NS / Microsoft don't? <g>.
a decent newsreader?
--
adios Robin Harrison <*> Merlin Corey
Xander: "That's okay. I don't wanna' go. I'm just gonna' go home,
lie down, and listen to country music: the music of pain."
< http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~merlinc > The Courts of Chaos
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<35211f28.16848698@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<35152718.7E4B3B51@tower.emu.net.au> <6f4fnc$13h$1@reader.omen.com.au> <6f4tgp$fjj$1@toto.tig.com.au> <352b5305.9619940@news.latrobe.edu.au> <slrn6hdgsd.g8d.zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <3518e463.5834764@news.latrobe.edu.au> <slrn6he6vq.qhk.zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <3519ad9d.6624177@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au> <3516BA08.4FDB8D56@pompeii.mpce.mq.edu.au> <6f8etc$tlg$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <6f9q45$50j$0@dosa.alt.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6172,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gidf6172,public X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,public X-Google-Thread: 101ee4,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gid101ee4,public X-Google-Thread: 107319,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gid107319,public X-Google-Thread: fc53d,8813eee968f8667b X-Google-Attributes: gidfc53d,public From: rahar8@student.monash.edu.au (Robin Harrison) Subject: Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale Date: 1998/03/25 Message-ID: <35211f28.16848698@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 337585076 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35152718.7E4B3B51@tower.emu.net.au> <6f4fnc$13h$1@reader.omen.com.au> <6f4tgp$fjj$1@toto.tig.com.au> <352b5305.9619940@news.latrobe.edu.au> <slrn6hdgsd.g8d.zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <3518e463.5834764@news.latrobe.edu.au> <slrn6he6vq.qhk.zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <3519ad9d.6624177@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au> <3516BA08.4FDB8D56@pompeii.mpce.mq.edu.au> <6f8etc$tlg$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <6f9q45$50j$0@dosa.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Monash Uni Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.books,aus.sf,aus.sf.babylon5,aus.sf.star-trek