Bob Fry wrote:
>
> Not a bad idea, I have a home-built PC which I leave on 24x7
> because I run a private proxy server (so I can read my emails
> from work to avoid their stupid blocked sites). I would much
> prefer to have a very low power linux system running stuff like
> that and separate it from my main computer.
What's not a bad idea? You should realize that Usenet traffic,
while fairly reliable, is NOT guaranteed. There is no reason to
assume that your reader will ever see any other article. That is
why reasonable posters always quote enough of previous posts to
make their message stand entirely by itself. The quote level is
indicated by the count of leading '>' on a line, and is one more
than the similar count on the attribution line (Joe wrote: initial
lines). This is also the basic reason for limiting line length to
72 (67 is better) chars.
See the following URLs for further info:
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
<http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>
(taming google)
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