Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
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from "Philip" contains these words:

Do you ever use Google to read the Usenet, maybe if you were to try
that then you may appreciate why people top post.

No, I never go to an online server for my news: I have an offline
reader, and all the posts to the groups I'm subscribed to since my last
connection are compressed into a packet on the server and downloaded
compressed, then expanded and read at leisure.



The luxury of sitting at the same computer to read your News is indeed a
idyllic position to be in.

Laptop?


Yes please.

But seriously that's not really feasible either.

With the threat of viruses and other nasty things most employers do
not permit the use of '3rd party' computers on their networks. For
most businesses the risk from foreign PC's is not the ingress of
viruses but rather the invalidation of their business continuity
insurance.