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Old October 29th 15, 03:47 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:28:25 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:09:27 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be

parsing
any header lines.


A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.


A home-made cobbled together excuse which I doubt you could write and which
allows me to search hundreds of articles from dozens of groups in milliseconds
using regular expressions via the unix command line and filter out the crap
and the good stuff in a far more complex way than any reader program can manage.

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