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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Read this if you're having trouble unpacking Tcl
Message-ID: <3144@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 2 Jan 91 14:41:38 GMT
References: <4044@dah.sub.org> <1990Dec30.151724.20808@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <75110369@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1991Jan1.000829.24209@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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In <1991Jan1.000829.24209@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> I'm having a great deal of trouble imagining
>the person who sits and reads a source posting of several hundred
>kilobytes _while_ in the form of a news article, and from the news
>reader.

I subscribe to all the source groups I can find (since I have an account
on UUNET I can find a lot :-).  Using RN, I read at least the first full
article of any multi-part posting.

I don't it's all that rare.

The only group I dropped is the damn Amiga group, which posts binary
data in a source group.
	/r$
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