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Re: Why not as a newsgroup?



On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 09:42:13AM -0500, Roger Pittman wrote:

>   Per the source code, the "standard" (oversimplified) sequence is:

Ahhh, yes, what you describe is how it works usually. It's fine if you're 
sitting at a leased line or pay a flat fee for your phone call to your ISP. 
But what we were talking about were newsreaders which grab the headers of your 
selected groups, disconnect and let you mark articles for retrieval at a later 
time. This is not that usual with Unix newsreaders than it is with Windows and 
Mac programs, unfortunately.


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