On Nov 26, 7:42 am, nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> The good thing about newsgroups back in the day, was that it didn't
> require a constant or fast online connection. You could batch
> download headers, flag them for body download offline, and then
> download the bodies, read and reply off line. In the days of 300 baud
> connections this was great. There was also a software some BBSs with
> newsgroup access would use that would zip (or PKARC back then), the
> bodies and send it via zmodem - great stuff.
That was great stuff? More like it was a good thing we *could* do
that, otherwise with as slow a connection as many had, many would not
have been reasonably been *able* to read and post to newsgroups!!
John Kuthe...
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