Re: Free Custom News Service Delivers Via Screen Saver

Tim Byars (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 14:12:13 -0800


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->From: Rohit Khare <khare@pest.w3.org>
->Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 16:51:52 -0500
->To: tbyars@earthlink.net (Tim Byars)
->Subject: Re: Free Custom News Service Delivers Via Screen Saver
->Reply-To: khare@w3.org
->X-Url: http://www.xent.w3.org/
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->Ha! Real well put...
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->Rohit
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->PS. You might want to cc: it to the list, too...
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->Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:31:46 -0800
->To: khare@w3.org
->From: tbyars@earthlink.net (Tim Byars)
->Subject: Re: Free Custom News Service Delivers Via Screen Saver
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->At 3:34 PM 2/14/96, Rohit Khare wrote:
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->>"Trotted out" is damned right!
->>
->>I don't want hyperactive content, I want MY content, at MY speed. Anyone who
->>gets their news from a screensaver deserves to have it reamed into him or her
->>by Rush, Donaldson, or some other fleeting prick.
->>
->>Jeez, as if MTV weren't a lower bound.
->>
->>Rohit Khare
->>
->>) Free Custom News Service Delivers Via Screen Saver
->>
->>PointCast Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., unveiled a new concept in Internet news
->>delivery yesterday--a free, advertiser-supported service that delivers
->>customized news headlines and stories over the Web to your PC at idle times
->>when you'd otherwise be watching a screen saver.
->
->I'm sorry, I'm a loser. Now I know what my problem is. I don't "watch" my
->screen saver. Shit! And the fact that I have my monitor to Energy Save
->after 15 minutes, again clearly spells out what a fuckin' loser I am.
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->Tim
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