On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:49:40 GMT, "Roberto Amigo"
<roberto12345abc@yahoo.com> Gave us:

I respect your poise and comments, especially in our democratic society, but
I would bet those dollar figures you quote were based on the value of the
buck in 2000 or so. If we had those dollar amounts in 1969 we would
certainly would have had a different space program.
Roddenberry and others once called space the final frontier, think about
that.
Anyway we are on our way to mars. we will spend billions to get there and
will soon realize that valuable resources lie on the moon and wait for our
use as a stepping stone to the galaxy, if we dont go to war over it first!
It would be less expensive in the longer scheme of things.

  Though quite accurate, and very informative, you don't seem to know
much at all about usenet.  For one thing, you use Outhouse Express.
Bad... Very bad.  Get a REL news client, not billy's abomination.

  Two:  You top post.  Bad... very bad.  See below please.

  Then, you full quoted 450 lines of text from the previous post.

  Extremely bad.

http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

http://www.glowworms.com/cs/rfc1855.html

www.newsreaders.com/guide/netiquette.html

  Some people still pay for their online time by the minute.
Both POTS, and even now with the new data links for cellphone bands.

  I'd like to think that you were in the astro group, and none of the
others.  I'd like to think you smart enough to want to follow the
conventions, once you learn what they are...  See above.