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Re: The Apple ][ was crap



On 1 Sep 2001 10:27:26 -0400, The Lord of the Flies (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
wibbled on for an age:

> **spike1@freenet.co.uk ("s1") pecked-out on Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:10:38 +0000:
> 
> s1> Dude! What in hell are you talking about? Do you think he hand crafts
> s1> each individual attribution line? It's fuckin automatic. He set it in
> s1> his newsreasder... Just as I did.
> 
> Well I understand that, but it's not so automatic that it can't be
> changed.  I have a different line for nearly every newsgroup I post to.
> When I move to a different group, I just switch the former out and switch
> a new--e.g., pre-prepared appropriate for the new group--line in.  It's
> not terribly hard.  I'm quite creative: got a slew of 'em.

Erm, and what do you think I do?  Yes: I also have a whole list of
attribution lines attached to newsgroups (I don't even have to
manually switch them out).  I also have a little tag "%g", which gets
replaced by the name of the group I am posting from.  The above
therefore, somewhat predictably, looks like this:

On %d, %r (of %g "fame")
wibbled on for an age:

Yes, I *could* change it for individual messages.  I *could* change
the entire thing.  But I can't be arsed.

Chris
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