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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Atari binaries postings. A comment...
- Message-ID: <JV76qB1w165w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 18:19:42 PDT
- References: <1992Sep8.222144.12712@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- rfunk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert M Funk) writes:
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- > just an annoyance to those who are not interested in it. When
- > there is a text message that seems uninteresting, at least it is readable.
- > With a binary newsgroup, one could just read the titles, then go back and
- > save those messages/files that were desired.
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- Why not just do this?: Here is my blurb about a file:
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- blah blah blah blah...
- blah blah.. that's all I got to say...
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- abort message now if you don't want it!!
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- begin somefile.uue part 1/1
- Table:
- ABCDEFG
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- etc.etc.etc.... and if you don't want it.. skip it.
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- simple enough. When I read other groups, I always scan what I want to
- read, but here, i read all messages no matter WHAT (unLESS they have to
- do with...say...IBM->8-bit xfer or something extremely technical that I
- don't need to know (yet)).
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- Is this sufficient?
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