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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SSBootFile - ssboot~1.lha (09/26):FIX yer reader mr PAYING for IT
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 17:49:30
- Organization: Private node.
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960211.574770.1008E@al051.du.pipex.com>
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-
- slider wrote:
- : It's not that hard to set your news reader to download just the header or topic
- : Why you feel you are FORCED to read anything is beyond me unless you are just not
- : informed enough or bothered to read the documentation of or just have a really cheap newsreader
- : when full featured ones are available for free.
- :
- : You do not have to download the whole newsgroup and if you are doing thaat at once to read it later
- : then you get what you get..SPAMS often jump in there from people just tacking on "YEAH i see that"
- : but i haven't read about you jumping up and down about that....Set you newsreader to download the headers
- : then pick what you want. Keeps you from paying for what you don't want.
- : James Vigliotti
-
- That's not the point, you idiot. This is a discussion group, not a binaries
- group.
-
- And many people do _not_ have control of what postings they download, whatever
- you may think.
-
- -- Mat.
-