Re: Don't click on RLBs post unless you wanna clog your newsreader sea

[Nomen Nescio <nobody@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bass said:

>Before clicking on any post you should note the number of lines
>in the post.  That's a holdover from the old days when 300-Baud
>modems were considered fast.
>
>Several of the major search engines, including Google, spider
>USENET posts as well as the WWW, looking for links to various
>websites.  These are catalogued and can affect a website's
>placement within "content match" search results.

Well, you've got to give the man credit.  It isn't often that someone not
only admits to being a selfish, inconsiderate asshole, and then brags about
it.

- badenov