From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com   
      
   In article ,   
   David Carson   wrote:   
   ...   
   >I need to know whether I'm interested in reading it first. News sites   
   >provide a generally awful reading experience. The odds of me reading an   
   >article from a news site based on a headline alone are in the low single   
   >digits. Give me a better idea of what I might see, and they go way up.   
   >   
   >Usenet was not invented so that people can share hyperlinks, and that's   
   >not the reason any of us are here. The magic of this group happens when   
   >discussions get going about a topic where we have a common interest, i.e.   
   >obituaries and related subjects. So far, I don't see that anyone  has   
   >discussed this one; we've just commented on posting protocol.   
   >   
   >Give us something to discuss besides a headline and a URL   
      
   Yes!  To all of the above.   
      
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