From: "Colin Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:05:11AM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> > Also just a short paragraph included from the article would help 
> > sluggers here to decide if they wanted to click on it - especially if 
> > they are on a dialup from home. These news sites are notorious for 
> > bandwidth sucking.
> 
> The title and a short paragraph is usually enough to quickly find a
> link from news.google.com to the article that doesn't require
> registering. (Or somewhere else that has the same article, I see
> according to the url, that this has a reuters source, so is probably
> available in quite a few places)
> -- 

Simple idea but truly brilliant. I learn one more trick today.

Thanks.


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