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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DBW 2.0!!!!!!
Summary: Not too many big postings
Keywords: ftp, bandwidth, overseas access, posting
Message-ID: <891@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 89 01:32:45 GMT
References: <399@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> <40@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <40@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Ian Farquhar) writes:
>I hold no respect
>for those people who whine every time a large article is posted, they remind
>me of those laboratory administrators who like their lovely equipment
>unsullied by actual use.  The net is there, let's use it!

You mean, "The net is there, let's abuse it!  I don't have to pay for it!!!"

Big postings: 1) time up the modem, 2) increase my phone bill, and 3) fill
up my /usenet partition so that NOTHING ELSE CAN BE RECEIVED.  If you were
to send me money to cover items 2 and 3, then I wouldn't mind item 1. :-)
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