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From: AJH <>
Subject: Re: Help an uninformed researcher! (Geograhical Questions)
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:55:56 +0100
In article <7t3n4u$>, R. Upton <>
writes
>
>"Patricia Hamilton" () writes:
>> You could have easily found out this information yourself by using a
>> search engine.
>
>Sure I could have, but to do that I'd have to be on the Internet now
>wouldn't I? When I have paid i'net service and web access, I'll look on a
>search engine, but for the meantime, I'll post to newsgroups using my
>text-based interface which has little access to anything outside email/usenet.
>
>consider the circumstances of my post before going off and insulting my
>intelligence and implying that I'm lazy because I ask someone who lives
>there over other options. My map is dated 1977, and is therefore useless
>to finding anything out pre-1974, so the only other way out is to ASK
>because I don't have no damn web access to a search engine.
Erm, hang on a minute, there.
Now, granted I got up your nose by not reading your request properly (for which I _have_
already_ apologised in public), but this latest rant is a little un-called-for.
Simply looking at your email address does not tell me that you only have newsgroup access.
In fact, from the UK this is just about unheard-of - and there are a plethora of free ISPs with
local dial-up facilities. Just a shame we don't all have the luxury of free local phone calls the
way you lot over there do ...
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AJH
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