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

Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> spake thusly:

> 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?

Not the ISP, but the newsgroup server provider - some of these offer
staged costs depending on your monthly download. Although you would
be unlikely to break through the basic package if you only read text
groups, even if you fetch all the bodies.

--
David
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