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- From: jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Another question
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 10:57:10 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- References: <1992Nov17.013438.1098@borland.com> <41133@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <41133@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov17.013438.1098@borland.com> daniel@borland.com (Dan Veditz) writes:
- |> >
- |> >And finally, has this group gone completely dead,
- |> >or is it just us? Haven't seen anything since
- |> >Nathan sent out the FAQ and Bibliography.
- |> >
- |> >-Dan Veditz
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- |> To: daniel@borland.com
- |> Subject: Re: Another question
- |>
- |> there is something real funny going on : lots of people are
- |> complaining they only get some of the messages. I get maybe 4
- |> one day, 40 the next day, and lots of replies to threads I never
- |> saw started.....
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- This brings back memories of my FidoNet day, where about 50% of the replies were
- replies to messages you hadn't actually read yet (!!!)
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- You got quite good at storing replies in background until you got to the
- original, then recalling it!! <hehe>
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- Haven't seen that happen here yet though..
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