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- From: annmarie.scott@p2.f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (AnnMarie Scott)
- Message-ID: <3_800_842.2_fidonet2b60fab0@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: I *LIKE* Malibu
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
- Date: 23 Jan 93 08:50:42 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- Original to: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu
- On <18.01.00>, a small alien, dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (3:713/602), bleeped :
-
- d> We're doing the best we can to make it easy for you to skip the
- d> messages you don't like. We can't create an advocacy newsgroup over
- d> night, and this is the next best thing. Read your newsreader's manual
- d> for information on how to construct a "kill file" that will
- d> automagically mark as read any messages with "ADVOCACY" in the subject
- d> line.
-
- Unfortunately, Vincent, like myself, is a FidoNet person, so we don't use rn
- or anything like that which has a kill file as such. We read our mail at
- home from the comfort of GEM and in conjunction with a BBS. It can be done,
- but is rather pointless because regardless of whether we had a kill file or
- not, we still have to pay money (in terms of phonebills and subscription to
- Internet to
- FidoNet gateways) to read all your wonderful postings, whether we want to or
- not.
-
- There is no method of excluding messages from a newsgroup we receive via the
- gateway, so we have no choice but to either receive all or none of the
- postings. Not that anyone ever worries about this when they set up these
- 'ADVOCACY' style thing, because you're got to cater to the majority of
- users.
-
- You're one of the lucky ones, Dave, with access to a commodity that most of
- us can only dream about... free mail...ftp...kill files...
-
- d> Dave Baggett
-
- ~/Kerick
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