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From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: bandwidth abuse
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References: <930401055547_70530.1226_CHV37-1@CompuServe.COM>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 12:15:14 GMT

In article <930401055547_70530.1226_CHV37-1@CompuServe.COM> Mike Kent <70530.1226@CompuServe.COM> writes:
>Mmmm, well, I think I got a bit carried away.  So this is an apology to
>Christopher Browne for the ad hominem elements in my "bandwidth abuse"
>posting.  But I stand by the substantive point:  84K of reference material
>(most of which is formatting instructions) just doesn't belong in the
>newsgroup; a pointer suffices for this kind of material.  

It was a tradeoff which I may have been wrong on; there IS a mistake
in that the posting that claimed to be page 1 of the ref. card. is
actually an extra copy of page 2.

I'm out of town for a few days, (and may wind up being AT the APL
-- 
Christopher Browne                |     PGP 2.0 key available
cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca           |======================================
University of Ottawa              | Genius may have its limitations, but
Master of System Science Program  | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
