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From: Michael Naylor <mnaylor@math.fsu.edu>
Subject: Re: gif2ascii - gifa.exe (0/1)
Date: 1997/07/01
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To: wildwing@darkside.demon.co.uk
Organization: Florida State University
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On Monday, June 30th, Edward Farrow rants:

>Shouldn't this have been posted in a binaries group? Thanks for a piece of
>crap, not everyone is using a PC you know! Do you want to pay my phone bill?
>no, I suspect you don't and my sysop (runs darkside bbs) has to download all of
>the messages, which cost him and me money.


Lighten up Edward, not everyone is almighty powerful like you!  Remember what 
it's like to be new?  True, newbies should lurk a long time before posting, but 
with the flood of new people to the web every day, not everyone knows.  Why not 
gently encourage newcomers, instead of making everyone feel like shit?

:(

mn
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