Re: Is this considered acceptable in the railway industry ?

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Walter Mann wrote:

> For what it's worth, I never bother to click a link unless the
> poster has summarised the content so as to give me a clue on whether
> it's of interest.

I'm distinctly inclined that way too, but, after seeing several
followups discussing some unknown incident, I was intrigued, and tried
to read the original URL after all. It happened to be at a time when
the server had been "visited by the 404 fairy" (as I saw it described
recently, LOL), but it seems the problem has been resolved later.

> After all, one of the design-features of old-fashioned news-reading
> is that you read and digest offline.

Well, yes; I started reading Usenet over a decade ago, and started out
with the customs as they prevailed then, which IIRC sometimes included
a 1200/75 modem - but things change. Nowadays, I don't even *have* a
way to read news that doesn't also include access to a web browser if
I choose to use it, no matter whether I'm in the office, at home on
ADSL, or out and about with dialup.

regards.
.

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