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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Long messages
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 09:42:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 09:42:07 1983
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Excuse me, but that's a crock; some of us have to work for a living.
If I were to read EVERY article that goes over this net every day
(and maybe reply or followup to 10% of them), I could easily spend
ALL of my time with news.  I firmly believe that most messages could
be kept short - to approximately one page on a display terminal -
without diminishing their content whatsoever.

I use vnews, and if the first page of an article does not REALLY pique
my interest, I usually skip the rest of the article. (the 'n' key works
ANYTIME in vnews!)