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From: martens@ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Argh!  Bandwidth excess!
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Date: 25 Oct 89 15:10:19 GMT
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In article <8910241832.AA19441@astro.psu.edu> antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes:

	[ stuff deleted ]

>I tend to connect to an account via modem, and since the machine I use
>is sort of a bare-minimum type (a Sun with no 'man'!) when a long message
>comes I just have to wait the five minutes for it to scroll by.  For some
>reason the machine won't interrupt until the end of a message, else it
>disconnects me.  

Either I'm confused, or you meant 'more', not 'man'.  But I can't
imagine a Unix w/o more or page (not Bob, necessarily) or somesuch, so
couldn't either you or your system manager change your newsreader to
pipe through more?

I do understand your frustration, but since you have an extremely
unusual situation on your end, I don't think many people are going to
be too concerned about it on their ends.  I don't post big stuff
myself, but if I did, if I ever forgot to put 'long' in the subject, I
couldn't feel too guilty.  Plus, how about all the short followups
that people haven't removed the 'long' from?
-=-
-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu)

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