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Re: doublespeak (refresh)

From dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject Re: doublespeak (refresh)
Date 2026-08-03 05:23 +0200
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On 02/08/2026 16:39, R.Wieser wrote:
> dillinger,
> 
>> Are you sure it's not a Microsoft Windows problem?
> ...
>> David is on Linux. Or at least he posted from Linux, same setup as you.
> 
> In a lot less words : Yes, you are sure.
> 
>> In Pan press H to check the headers, always a good plan before
>> blaming the OS if it isn't mentioned.
> 
> It wasn't a blame, but a question to a possibility.
> 
> Besides that, when a question  - or in this case : a complaint - is posted
> its upto the poster to supply all the information pertinent to it.
> Assuming that "everyone knows" is not a good starting-point.   Requiring
> that everyone go find the user-agent in the header and from there figure out
> which OS it belongs to isn't a good starting-point either.   Besides that he
> might have posted from a device other than his 'Puter ofcourse.
> 
> Point in case : I was not even sure if that "Refresh" wasn't an external
> program (like RegClean and its ilk).
> 
> Point in case : When I throw the whole user-agent string into DDG and I get
> (lots of) results related to a city, something about "Thermochemical
> Tables", "Furniture And Homeware", "Pan Am Flight 103 - Wikipedia" and some
> other stuff, but none about a newsgroup-client.   And I went down to page
> six - beyond the "I'm desparate" level :-).
> 
> Quoting the whole user-agent string and trying again I get "No results
> found".
> 
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
> 
> 
So you've never seen this, no problem, next time you don't understand 
something just ask. ("What is Refresh?") Without ranting preferably.

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doublespeak (refresh) David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-08-02 04:14 +0000
  Re: doublespeak (refresh) dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-02 07:27 +0200
  Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-02 08:15 +0200
    Re: doublespeak (refresh) Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2026-08-02 09:27 +0100
      Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-02 10:47 +0200
        Re: doublespeak (refresh) Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2026-08-02 10:40 +0100
          Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-02 12:46 +0200
            Re: doublespeak (refresh) Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-02 18:37 -0700
              Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-03 08:22 +0200
      Re: doublespeak (refresh) Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-02 08:44 -0700
      Re: doublespeak (refresh) The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-02 09:19 -0700
    Re: doublespeak (refresh) R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-08-02 22:01 +0200
      Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-03 08:25 +0200
  Re: doublespeak (refresh) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 07:35 +0000
    Re: doublespeak (refresh) dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-02 15:29 +0200
      Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-02 16:39 +0200
        Re: doublespeak (refresh) dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-03 05:23 +0200
          Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-03 08:25 +0200
            Re: doublespeak (refresh) dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-03 08:49 +0200
              Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-03 09:55 +0200
                Re: doublespeak (refresh) dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-03 10:14 +0200
                Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-03 11:05 +0200
                Re: doublespeak (refresh) dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-03 12:11 +0200
                Re: doublespeak (refresh) "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-08-03 15:19 +0200
  Re: doublespeak (refresh) Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-02 08:51 -0700

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