Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.news-service.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Steve Erwin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: OT names/nyms/etc. (was Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects?) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:41:48 +1000 Message-ID: <4ble171f06d7p27rja2d419146saqa4hgk@4ax.com> References: <4e14ef70$0$1580$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> <97mg3pFpbhU1@mid.individual.net> <97oshlF2ohU1@mid.individual.net> X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 148 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: a5e4c532.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=40Y8LZhD?WSW]I=Ra]NaiPL?0kYOcDh@Z[oXeHOh\O5^eXkH\?:lM0^FeK=h[\Ra]TYQi18^Ea@8US@=ee4nVeB]]Zn:mT4Z_9Uo6=`7NFW;DW Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5994 comp.lang.lisp:4601 blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: >In article , >Steve Erwin wrote: [cut] >> Today it maybe a tad foolish to be publishing a valid >> email addy in a "From". > >I set it up that way initially because the news server >I use required a valid address. > ... many factors feed into which server to use where. Seems you came, sat, and are happy, right? >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I think they've changed >their policy, but since the e-mail address I use here is >basically a spamcatcher, I'm not strongly motivated to >try to disguise it. > mmm.. as a programmer have you ever studied any network influences resulting from, let's say, 'poor' practices of software, any software, like? I see any influence over html as "software". Just so as you might see my thrust :-) >> Spam might not worry you >> yourself (many peeps are setup very well to deny Spam >> to their boxen) but it does contribute to "network >> overload/stress" when the spamBots start searching for >> a home for something that appears valid. >> Adding "SPAM" anywhere in an email address no longer >> works as a "deSpam", the bots are onto it. >> AFAIK.. "invalid" or "null" are the only 'tags' that >> render a modern email address useless to spamBots. > >Eh, that's a good point. Hm. On the minus side, it does >somewhat inconvenience anyone who wants to reply by mail. >Then again, so few people have done so over the years (at >least, as far as I know) .... > Maybe your posts only attract the blind? /grin I do not do brail yet I could get mail to you in a flash were your "From" to read; "Massingill" .. not that I would mail a gMail address.. jes sayin' like, I could :-) >Yes, quite. And that's okay with me -- since as best >I can tell your suggestion would result in just the >"blmblm@myrealbox.com" displaying, which I don't want. > Interesting. Cos it i s now... look at the scr.sht. What is the difference? errr. [thinking] .. the double quotes do not "list" only the text. I think you guys call quotes "switches". To me they are "wrapping tags".. but we live in different worlds,, I think.. mheh heh >> It will not appear in the list of poster's names. >> This is how it *should* be. > >Maybe so. But in the case of my rather peculiar "name" >I think it would result in something that might mislead >people. > crikey.. heh.. you got problems, lady! 8-> They call me "latzferfukendinner"... or "Hey You" and I don't see that harming none! Mum knows when I am hungry, no misleading there :-> >Of course I could pick a "name" that wasn't a now-obsolete >e-mail address, but I started out using the address >because I couldn't come up with a name I liked, and all >these years later I still can't -- not to mention that >there's the continuity issue. > oH there is that!! It is sssooo important folks knows who we is on the InnteeeNetz,, eh, muriel? >> Even the most skilled troll makes mistakes.. mheh heh >> >> An' you aint no newbie :-) > >Eh. I think I'll leave it alone for now. I suppose if >there was a rash of posts agreeing with you I might change >my mind. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > You think anyone around here knows this stuff? Really!? Tell you what.. i f they did, not only would your name have been changed/corrected waaaay back, but "we"Joe Public types would have integrated seamless surfing of pages like RS.com without having to jump through a dozen friken hoops to get stuff working. Take THAT to the bank! :-D >Thanks for the info anyway -- it *is* interesting > .. no worries. btw... You know how I got onto Seamus's tail? The guy could not find a +h sys file on his computer. I can still hear him wailing to this day. "I am telling you there is no such fucking file on my computer. It may well be on your fucking computer but it isn't on my fucking computer and my fucking computer works, thank you so very fucking much for your fucking no-help!" Yeh, true! This from a guy with a BSc in computer science, so he says, and a whole list of languages under his belt. Didn't even have a CLUE about +rash nup.. sorry, got no time for the education of those who believe a whole bunch of leaping flashing icons is great for the networks. BuuuT I guess someone has to keep the unemployable employed.. might as well be the likes of Gates/Turner etal :-D The fact you are bothered to break thread, creating a new topic, yet fixing your nym display isn't a big deal to you... is very interesting. But I aint got the time .. cya 'roun /0ff -- Steve