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Re: Email postings
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 04:00:18 GMT
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Simon Robinson <simon@simonrobinson.com> wrote:
> The reason I ask is that for those of us without free local phone
> calls (I suspect that's most people outside the US) and who can't
> use lugnet at work, subscribing by email is a lot cheaper because
> of the far smaller time you spend on the net. Apart from occasionally
> if I become aware that a thread I'm interested in has moved onto
> another subject that I'm not subscribed to the only times I actually
> use the web interface are when I'm posting replies - since I generally
> don't want my reply to start a new thread. That adds up to far more
> online time - and a significant financial cost - than reading and
> replying to stuff by email.

If you want the flexibility of downloading the posts to read, then
reply offline, why not just use a news reader?  Any number of them
would let you do exactly what you want to do via your e-mail reader.


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I know this topic has been hinted at before, but Todd - is there any way that the lugnet software could be modified so that it is able to recognise where postings submitted by email form part of a thread, and so put them in the right place in that (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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