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Re: PC.GAMES.RPG IS THE RIGHT GROUP FOR DIABLO!

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From: tot... C.M.Toth
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <33060abc...@news.earthlink.net> cro...@earthlink.net (Silverlock) writes:

>>What the hell?  Cluttering up news servers?  How much hard drive space does
>>text take up?  I could probably fit this entire group on a single floppy. 
>>I can download the entire list of newsgroups (all 9000 of them) in under a
>>second.  I mean I know its fun to act like an idiot occassionally, but
>>really, grow up.
>>
>>This is worse bullshit than all that talk about scaleability.  Ever hear of
>>Moore's Law?
>>
>>-- 
>>Joe Hendrix


>When I download the 'entire' list of newsgroups I get somwhere in the
>neighborhood of 24000.  Where did the rest of yours go to?
>--
>Silverlock                      

	ISPs, universities, companies, ect can choose which newsgroups to feed in and 
which ones to block out. So not everyone is going to have the same number of 
newsgroups.

Chris
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From: tot...@osu.edu (C.M.Toth)
Subject: Re: PC.GAMES.RPG IS THE RIGHT GROUP FOR DIABLO!
Date: 1997/02/18
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