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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:49:53 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:
-
- >:But think of us poor bystanders to this argument: if you can't be original,
- >:take it to private mail.
- >
- >I'd take it to /dev/null if he'd take his biblical tracts there too.
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- Don't you have a personal kill file in your mailbox? Even Cleveland has one
- of those set up!
-
- >companies that we had last year. I can just about stomach it on usenet
- >where I have / god /:j in my global kill file, but this stuff comes
- >directly into my mailbox and I find unsolicited religious tripe grossly
- >offensive.
- >
- <evil smile> Good - maybe it will inspire some really *good* invective!
- I find unsolicited <various sources> tripe offensive too, but there is a
- *very* simple solution. It's called a delete key; even you, hangovers, SAD
- and general grouchiness nonwithstanding, should be able to figure out how
- that works.
-
- --
- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
- - ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
- Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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