Subject: Re: Pine (*NOT*) Assuming Mailed Replies are News Articles

From: Rahul Dhesi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 18:25:07 -0800

Aside:

The attached email was unsoliciated, since I posted to Usenet and did
not send any email.  If I now reply to it (as I'm doing now), will I be
accused of sending abusive email?

(I will address the actual issue in comp.mail.pine.)

Rahul

> Date:  Thu, 16 Mar 95 10:16:37 GMT
> From:  Brian Tao <[email-masked]>
> To:    Rahul Dhesi <[email-masked]>
> Cc:    [email-masked]
> Message-Id: <[email-masked]
     ***a.edu.tw>
> Subject: Re: Pine (*NOT*) Assuming Mailed Replies are News Articles

> On 15 Mar 1995, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> > 
> > One incoming newsfeed and 3 megs a day?  A sporadic incoming newsfeed
> > that's rather selective based on my tastes, a couple of hundred
> > kbytes a day?
> > 
> > Just what is meant by offline news reading?
> 
>     If your posted articles are not injected into the news stream ASAP
> after posting, but are spooled to disk for later transmission (e.g.,
> because you do not have a permanent TCP/IP connection), then I would
> say you are reading offline.
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
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