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- Path: cup.portal.com!Gemini2
- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Not Having to DL everything first to read
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 00:00:06 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <150472@cup.portal.com>
- References: <DM74yE.65@inter.NL.net> <4fh5vd$i11@ccnet2.ccnet.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: news1.unix.portal.com
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- >-> hguijt@inter.NL.net (Hans Guijt) writes:
- > <SNIP> Stuff not related to my response
- >-
- >-> Were you the guy who send a disk full of GVP stuff? That tripled my downlo
- a
- >d
- >-> and incidentally my phonebill. This adds to irritation too - not everyone
- >-> can pick and choose messages, some of us *must* download first and read an
- d
- >-> select later.
- >
- >If you *must* download everything first then read instead of pick and choose t
- h
- >en you
- >are using a poorly written newsreader. Time to install a reader that can scan
- >only headers
- >and you pick what you want. If you are running on an Amiga/UNIX/PC etc. I can
- >either
- >find one for you or point you in the right direction to obtain one. There is a
- b
- >solutely no
- >reason today why a news reader must download all messages first before you can
- >do anything
- >with them except for poor and sloppy programming or at best beginner programmi
- n
- >g.
- >Let me know what you need.
- > James Vigliotti
- > slider@ccnet.com
- >-> Bye,
- >->
- >-> Hans
-
- This is true, BUT it is still better to upload binaries to the binary
- newsgroups and leave the message bases with messages only.
-
- Gary
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