Re: Usenapp - A Usenet newsreader for Apple computers

From	"David B." <David@hotmail.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Usenapp - A Usenet newsreader for Apple computers
Date	2026-05-01 22:02 +0100
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On 01/05/2026 20:33, John wrote:
>   You *may* be giving him more credit for wit, wisdom, intelligence,
> skill, expertise and knowledge than he deserves. It is possible that
> his newsreader software is set up to cross-post and that he does not
> know how to correct this. He may not even know what "cross-post" means
> in terms of Usenet newsgroups. He may have set his reader up many
> years ago under the wise advice of you folks without fully
> understanding what each setting is, does or means. I've done that with
> some software when I needed it to work *right* *the* *hell* *now* and
> I didn't have time to investigate it fully. True, I have always gone
> back over what I did and *learned* what all of the triggers and
> switches and flags are doing, once I had time, because I'm unhappy not
> knowing how stuff works, but DB may never have had the opportunity to
> do this. He may not even know that he could.
> 
>   In short, he may not be malicious, just a little ignorant. That's
> something *everyone* is of at least something. :)
> 
>   If we all knew everything there would be no Library, no Usenet, no
> Helpdesk and I would never have had a rather good job. :)
> 
> p.s. "ol' yellowstain"? It's funny and I think it refers back to a
> little doggie, possibly also "tobacco juice" and trouser gussets, but
> I'm not seeing the connection. If it's rude, please feel even more
> free to explain. Also, should "crosspost" be hyphenated? "Cross-post"?
> My speelchucker likes it better with a hyphen. Dividing it into two
> words, "cross post", implies that the post is angry, something that
> I'm sure an abstract collection of transient properties can not be.
> Though I'm not sure how "transient" posts are.

John,

You make a fair point regarding Hanlon’s Razor. It’s entirely possible
that what looks like a deliberate attempt to stir the pot is just a case
of "set it and forget it" software behaving badly. Not everyone treats
their .newsrc or filter rules with the same level of forensic curiosity
that we might.

However, I think you’re being a bit too charitable in this specific
instance. While ignorance is a valid plea for a newcomer, we’ve been
over these tracks many times before. There’s a certain point where "not
knowing" starts to look more like "not caring," especially when the
feedback has been provided repeatedly.

As for the colourful nicknames being tossed around by the likes of
WolfFan — I’d take those with a significant grain of salt. Some posters
here have a long-standing habit of "creative interpretation" regarding
the facts, and WolfFan is rarely one to let the truth get in the way of
a good jab.

Regarding the hyphen: "Cross-post" is definitely the way to go. Without
the hyphen, it does sound like a very irritable piece of mail. And given
the current temperature of the thread, "transient" might be an
optimistic description for these posts; some of these arguments seem to
have a half-life longer than uranium!

Cheers,
-- 
David

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  Re: Usenapp - A Usenet newsreader for Apple computers Norman Dibber <ndibber@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-24 15:41 +0000
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