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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Bandwidth burner
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725692777snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <2934731029.0.p00004@psilink.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 05:19:37 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <2934731029.0.p00004@psilink.com> p00004@psilink.com writes:
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- > May I take the liberty of encouraging a policy of non-response to this
- > poor soul? I ask this as a favor, since I don't have the equivalent of a
- > kill file and no way of prefiltering posts; I have to get all in order
- > to get any, at a clunky 9.6 kb/sec.
- >
- > Believe me, I hate that snippy net-police mentality as much as anybody;
- > this is a cry for mercy.
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- Sorry, but you have to suffer like the rest of us in the name of free
- speech. Hell, why not make the guy feel welcome, part of the group, on
- a substantial learning curve as we all are, and less likely to feel
- like sniping?
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- I mean, if he is out of work he is probably not in too good a mood
- anyway. Kill files are the silliest thing I ever heard of.
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- Gil
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