In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>
> > Killfiling seems so silly. Isn't it mostly a leftover from the days
> > where even text-only used significant bandwidth?
>
> If nothing else, it saves you the temptation of responding when it is
> difficult to be polite.
>
> > My 2400 baud modem
> > just can't keep up with all these unwanted headers? Is that what it
> > was for?
>
>
> 2400??? You can't be serious. That is almost stone age.

Life *did* used to be different. I started out with a 300 baud modem.
My terminal had no lower case and no "delete" key. If a list took more
than one screen, watch carefully, because once it scrolled off the top,
it was *gone*.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA