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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: news reader --- more
Summary: thanks
Keywords: shucks
Message-ID: <349@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 4 Dec 90 07:44:23 GMT
References: <4198@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <11973@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <11973@milton.u.washington.edu> wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) writes:
>It'd be keen if it supported automatically marking some articles as extra
>important.  (For example, I'd like to have everything written by Glenn
>Reid moved to the top of the newsgroup when I enter it.)

That's truly flattering, although I'm a little suspicious that your
trailing .) looks a bit like a :) which looks like a :-)

To tell you the truth, right after I read that, I went back to read as
many of my postings as were still lurking about, and was embarrassed to
note that most of them were the usual dreck.  Sigh.  But, properly
chastised, I'll attempt to keep the truth up and the fiction to a minimum,
although I can't promise to keep rank opinion from creeping in.

Sure is fun, this USENET stuff.  I've been posting half-truths,
overblown opinions, and murky problem solutions for about ten or eleven
years now, and it's amazing to note that "rn" and the network at large
haven't improved one little bit.  Kinda like UNIX, really.

That's one of the reasons I think we all ought to start posting in RTF.
ASCII is ASCII is ASCII, and we've lived with it since 1960-something.
Time to stir the soup, and let people catch up if they have real
computers and the will to do so.

Also, RTF is a great acronym, as acronyms go, since it starts with the
same thing that RTFM does, which about sums it up.

Sorry, a bit of a content-free posting.  But at least I didn't include
the entire text of the quoted article or quote Bob Dylan or flame
anybody :-)

Glenn
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