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From: bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: re the 100 lines postings..
Message-ID: <1991May11.144445.4241@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 11 May 91 14:44:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.195515.21052@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1991May8.090859.21756@dhw68k.cts.com> <1991May9.015611.5560@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1991May9.015611.5560@midway.uchicago.edu> Lawrence Reed Miller writes:
>If you really don't like them, you could put them in your kill file.

I was questioning their usefulnes, given that someone in a position to FTP a
file could just as easily FTP an index first.  There are a number of FTP sites
archiving various things on intest to various people.  If everyone was to post
a blow-by-blow listing of what was being added to their archives, there'd be
room for little else on the net.  Additionally, each article costs each site
some amount of money, even if they have no intest in the index.  Let those
who are interested pay for the FTP access to an index at the archive site.
-- 
	Roger L. Long
	bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com