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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 3 Feb 1997.
Re: Offline Readers

Re: Offline Readers

Angele Ryan wrote in alt.ascii-art 02-Feb-97 19:04:31:

>On (27 Jan 97) Tom-Remi Flygel wrote to All...

 TF>> what on earth is the point in posting html-codes in newsgroups???
 TF>> Most people *DON'T* use their web-browser to read/write in
 TF>> newsgroups!! The most common are offline readers

>May I ask which readers have you used for newsgroups? Obviously, something
>that allows the importation of ascii art files (without the continuous cut
>and paste) would be quite useful? Right now I'm using my fido point system,
>but something that works with Netscape would be great.

I'm using an offline reader called Thor for the Amiga. And I'm positively
sure that most people do use an offliner for newsgroups, and HTML-codes
looks like shit in pure ascii-text. Therefore my protest against the
guy who posted 1��pages of pure HTML-code.. What's the point??
Any1 have opinions?? (I might be wrong y'know:)

>Angele


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From: Tom-Remi Flygel <tom...@online.no>
Subject: Re: Offline Readers
Date: 1997/02/03
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