(...) The junk mail part is true, but I'm not sure how true it is that you need Internet access to read newsgroup. You see, the dialup is regulated by a server computer. This computer has different accessible ports. One of them is the email port. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
(...) Erm... not quite. I much prefer an email based distribution. I don't access the net interactively that often. I just queue up my mail, and my computer autonomously purges each evening while I sleep. If the handyboard list were a newsfeed, I (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)