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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6125 comp.org.eff.talk:8928 comp.unix.bsd:4550 comp.os.mach:2062 news.groups:49674 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,news.groups Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!newsdaemon From: "eddf12::roberts"@frais.enet.dec.com (Nigel Roberts) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Message-ID: <1992Sep4.073005.23019@engage.pko.dec.com> Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon) Organization: IC software a.g. (on contract at DEC) References: <1992Sep1.180222.20077@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Sep1.192349.26133@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Sep3.151657.8362@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Sep03.155500.13026@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:20:36 GMT Lines: 28 > conversation, but anyone who should not want to listen to what Bill has > to say then should have a newsreader that supports kill files and then (Flame. Flame. Flame.) My newsreader doesn't seem to support kill files. In fact I consider myself lucky that my newsreader supports the fact my workstation is outside the mainstream of DEC's internal network. Do I complain to the person who wrote the newsreader? I do not. Why? Because I am using a VMS system, and the the only newsreader available was written by someone out of the goodness of their heart. I am truly grateful to him for that. And for what it does (act as a client for a U*x server elsewhere in the network) it does it remarkably well. But what you are saying is that if I haven't the capability of using kill files, I shouldn't be reading newsgroups with a low signal-to-noise ratio. Bah. Humbug. Who is this Bill person anyway? Nigel Roberts | roberts@frais.enet.dec.com | Tel. +44 206 396610 European Engineer | P O Box 49,Manningtree,CO11 2SZ | & +49 6103 383 489 G4IJF | "Life is but a tale . . . " | FAX +44 206 393148