Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Where do you get your desktop artwork? Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: solani.org 1400882498 3320 eJwFwYEBABAMA7CXVrQ4B1v/P0HCLujNIWrQtHqRxdxeRTzcc/eSC4F003ExHKFITKnxAyV1EQI= (23 May 2014 22:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:01:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXBpZWznEC/59gEovGKzCImBjclmNpKrKSKeyveLw5YXAejbJl2O2Dvx4PzxDH Cancel-Lock: sha1:CVzyIlrvDmVYvauBmTeDKmGVAVU= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBADAEA7CXjOq8w/D/CUvcePgu6ISvb3Lmztpra0ijN6yEGqkD1B6hKFET6wn0BzKTEYg= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3048 On 2014-05-23, Johny B Good wrote: > Apology accepted. :-) Quite possibly the first time I've ever seen those words printed on the Internet. Has the Rapture happened? > I see _far_ worse sins being committed than the one of _merely_ top > posting since Microsoft's latest Livemail versions started to fuck up > the quoting (bottom posted replies that look like part of the reply > text and hence make it look as though the poster is parroting the > previous poster). > > Google and Microsoft between them are doing their damnedest to > destroy usenet as an effective medium of discussion. People that really dislike posts from those clients have put in simple killfile rules that automatically filter them out. I have killfiled google groups posts and don't find I miss them. Funnily enough, I tested it on alt.astronomy, and immediately lost about 90% of the conversation on that NG (and was better off for it - no better NG on earth serves as witness to the worst of Usenet behavior).