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Posted by Arne on 11/23/27 11:31
Once upon a time *Ed Jay* wrote:
>>> How many people do you think use Google to post from their jobs or other
>>> locale away from home?
>>>
>>> When at home, I use Agent for my email and Usenet. But, I travel quite a
>>> bit and I have little choice but use Google if I want to post a NG
>>> message, or webmail to read my email. I don't think I'm unique.
>>
>>Really?
>>
>>If reading and posting on Usenet would be part of my job, then the
>>company would pay for a subcription to a news server.
>
> I didn't mean to suggest that they were playing with company blessings.
:)
>>If I only would be allowed to "chat" on Usenet on my company paid
>>time, I would be happy to pay less than US$1.00 per month my self for
>>a subscription.
I can even pay my self without company blessings :)
>>When I'm on travel, I have other things to do than sit in front of a
>>computer and post on newsgroups, if the computer owner don't have a
>>subscription. Webmail is a different thing though :)
>
> When I travel, I spend about two hours sitting in the 1st class lounge
> twiddling my thumbs while waiting for my 12-hour flight.
Ouch, two hours! I'm glad I never need that. And I never done any
12-hour flights either. But while waiting, reading and posting
e-mails, reading a newspaper and chat with acquaintances is just fine
for me :)
>>BTW, there are some regular posters on many groups that are filtering
>>out *everything* that comes groups.google.com server, so I guess they
>>don't see your posts from GG :)
>
> I don't miss their non-responses. :-)
What you don't see or know, you don't miss :)
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/Arne
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