Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from  22.04.2014 00:36
about Some observations.

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 AH> Finland, eh?? Wonderful, wonderful! During the past several months
 AH> we heard from Sweden & the Netherlands for the first time... and I
 AH> was pleased about that because we've borrowed so much of the
 AH> English language from similar sources. Be warned, guys. I may want
 AH> to pick your brains now & then.... ;-)

 AH> We don't always know who's carrying the echo unless somebody posts
 AH> a message from their system. Glad to know we've made it to Finland
 AH> too.... :-)

NNTP is a cool thing. For instance, Facebook or any other social network
can be switched off in one second for all their users. But NNTP network
has a lot of servers, and you can read/write from any of them. If one
server is down for some reason, you always have a possibility to check
your echoes using another server. If an NNTP server doesn't have a
particular echoes you can ask its administrator and he will include it
in the list.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2014

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