From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The mail archives
Date: 3 Sep 1997 05:50:03 GMT
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kifox (kifox AT hotmail DOT com) writes:
> I don't think it really matters, because if you are posting in a newsgroup 
> like comp.os.msdos.djgpp which lets you know from the start that it's being 
> archived,and you still post to the group, you are giving permission for it 
> to archive your postings,as opposed to "services" like deja news which are 
> basically "stealing" the postings then archiving them without informing 
> anyone of the fact.

Comp.os.msdos.djgpp lets you know from the start? I assume the weekly mini-faq
says something about it buried in the labyrinthine monolithic structure
somewhere :-) One in seven new people will see the mini-FAQ posted within 24
hours of their first showing up, and might not have posted yet by then.

Someone else wrote:
> ...no news service at my ISP

What about WWW??? What kind of ISP is it, North Mongolian E-mail Services
or something? :-) No ISP worth their connection charges doesn't provide a
decent news feed, mail, www, irc, ftp, telnet, gopher (obsolete but still
used), and spam-filtration. I'm on a FREEnet and they provide all of the
above, with limited connect time per day (30 minutes of full access to
binaries and stuff, plus 2 hours in day and unlimited in the wee hours ;-)
of text news, mail, web, gopher, and irc.)


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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh