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   candycanearter07 to snipeco.2@gmail.com   
   Re: If you were to design a netnews prot   
   28 Aug 24 22:40:03   
   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Sn!pe  wrote at 21:04 this Wednesday (GMT):   
   > Mike Spencer  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anton Shepelev  writes:   
   >>   
   >> > Chris Hennessy (chenness@enterprise.powerup.com.au) wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > The brothers Usas and Senda, despairing of the state of UseNet, went   
   >> > unto the mountain at the feet of Net.God.  "Oh Net.God, there is   
   >> > confusion and sorrow in your place of UseNet.  The people worship false   
   >> > gods and knowst not your will."   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> Interesting to note that top-posting wasn't mentioned by Net.God in   
   >> His commandments.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I guess that the Commandments predate the deplorable appearance of   
   > Outlook Excrete.  It was that email prog. being pressed into service on   
   > Usenet that brought the execrable email habit of top posting to Usenet.   
      
      
   Of course it was MS.   
   --   
   user  is generated from /dev/urandom   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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