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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Lar --
> Thank you for those interesting observations and for the documentation.
> I appreciate the "instant education" this list is providing.

But is it >really< necessary to post all the man pages to the list when
all it takes is either a private email or something like:

  please type "man vi" at the promt

Please consider that:

a) people are paying for their bandwidth/internet connection
b) there are >many< places to inform yourself about these things not least
   of which are various linux/unix newbie lists.

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