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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:54:50 GMT
From: druck <n...@druck.freeuk.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject: Re: How to curtail top posting !!
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On 18 Jan 2006 "Dave Braine" <d...@pilot.pprune.com> wrote:
> druck wrote:
>> You do realise that google is just a viewer and archiver of news postings,
>> and has absolutely no effect on actual usenet news system, in which posts
>> are propagated to hundreds of thousands of servers world wide.
>> 
> Yes, I have started to realise that. So how do you see/recieve these
> postings then? Are they sent by email?

As you are using google, why not search for "How Newsgroups Work".

---druck

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