Re: Question for Agent (and other news reader) users

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:00:23 +0000, Peter Duncanson
<mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:47:51 GMT, Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:33:50 +0000, Peter Duncanson
> ><mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> >Agent will search on content
> >(called "Global Search"). For example, you can search for
> >all postings that contain the word "pronunciation", display
> >a list of hits, then delete all of them without ever having
> >brought any of them up for reading.

> Yes. However as mentioned by Lars Eighner this will require the
> downloading of the bodies of all messages, with attendant costs.

"Attendant costs"? I pay a flat monthly fee for my Internet
Service Provider. Are there people who pay according to how
much they download?
.

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