On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:44:36 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I
>> just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few
>> days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks
>> interesting, then I read a few messages.  Stopping every once in a
>> while to see if the topic has changed.
> 
> I used to do that on these newsgroups while offline, a few years ago.
> 
> I looked for interesting subjects, marked them for download, and
> connected to my dialup ISP for a few minutes at night (when phone is
> cheaper) to get them :)

Yeah, that was really common for me on CompuServe as well, until I got a 
sponsored account.  :-)

Jim

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