From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 16:13:07 GMT
In article <8etONsm00VohMRqmFq@andrew.cmu.edu> sward+@CMU.EDU (David Reeve Sward) writes:
>I'm already paying $~25+K to come to this school. I don't have the
>money to pay for another site where I can use a newsreader which filters
>out crossposts.
You don't have to pay money for an account on GNU or Cleveland
Freenet. And they're not the only places that volunteer accounts.
>I can't just ftp, compile
>and run another newsreader either, since CMU has some
>highly-non-standard news setup (AMS - Andrew Mail System) which would
>require some major hacks on the existing newsreaders to get them to
>function properly.
(How does the Andrew Mail System affect your newsfeed?) Ever heard of
NNTP, anyway?
>I simply don't have the skill/time to do that.
GNUS is pitifully easy to install, and it's small, besides.
>You claim I have choices -
>name 'em.
There you go.
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