At 8:37 PM -0700 on 5/8/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Alain : Yes, I know. What I meant to convey is : why should one use the
>news protocol if one already has electronic mail ? What advantages does
>one gain by using news instead of Email ?
Anthony: The ability to quickly and effortlessly loose massive quantities
of messages to the Gremlins thereby disrupting communications
as some people are left in the dark from an important message.
Anthony: You get, without any effort or want on your part, in excess of
300 messages pleding for your to stare at some pornography, or,
if you're lucky, to participate in a "100% legal" illegal
pyramid money scheme.
Anthony: You also get nice threading.
>Alain : By the way, I have come across several methods of testing CGI
>programs WITHOUT being connected to the Internet. Interested?
Send your copy of NetScape to the local machine -- IP address 127.0.0.1
<http://127.0.0.1/> will connect to your machine 100% of the time.
