Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Heeeeere's Johnny!

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At a penny a minute for phone calls (which was considered cheap at the time!) it was really easy to rack up silly phone bills in the early days of the internet here! Hence every mail reader was set to “download headers and disconnect” so you could mark things of interest then reconnect and download just the content you were genuinely interested in.

Like choosing nice food from a menu instead of gorging at the endless conveyor belt of an all-you-can-eat fast food joint 😉