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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: Wed, 14 Feb 96 22:28:51
- Organization: Private node.
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960214.477EF0.14616@am069.du.pipex.com>
- References: <19960211.574770.1008E@al051.du.pipex.com> <4fpi06$5vm@ccnet2.ccnet.com>
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-
- slider@ccnet.com wrote:
- : -> m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- : -> 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.
- : ->
- : -> 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.
-
- : It's exactly the POINT GOD (or so you seem to be with that attitude!)
-
- No it is not. Would you argue with my first point? You appear to have
- completely ignored it.
-
- [deletia]
-
- -- Mat.
-