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Re: Boycott News



dski@ms17.hinet.net

>By the way, I can't figure out these people at The Register. On the one
>hand, for their daily e-mail headline updates, they use an outfit called
>ListBot that now adds the following to each mailing (the paragraph,
>unlike the Register material that precedes it, is completely unwrapped,
>a hallmark of Microsoft programs):

   A while back I contacted the editor there, and he said they know 
ListBot is a Microsoft owned company and they have plans to move to their 
own mailing list system as soon as the site programmers get finished with 
other projects and can work on a way to do it. The Register is apparently 
a small budget operation, so it may be a while yet before that happens.


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