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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: houston.general
- Subject: Re: News Feed (LONG)
- Message-ID: <7901@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:46:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.162237.12065@tamsun.tamu.edu> wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu (Rick Russell) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.054616.23917@buster.stafford.tx.us> rli@buster.stafford.tx.us writes:
- >>1. I have a small system (486/25 with 900MB). When I first
- >This is obviously some strange usage of the word 'small' that I wasn't
- >previously aware of.
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- On the scale of Usenet, especially as bloated as SysVR4 is getting, this is
- getting to be towards the small end. Once upon a time, the 120 MB drive I
- dedicated to news on splut would have held a couple of weeks' worth of data;
- now it's a couple of days if I'm lucky.
-
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Cat: Four legs and an attitude." -- Jim Reese
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