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| Started by | Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> |
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| First post | 2014-02-06 22:38 -0800 |
| Last post | 2014-02-26 17:30 +0000 |
| Articles | 20 on this page of 102 — 44 participants |
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Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-06 22:38 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! xyzzy <stalkers-suck@grr.la> - 2014-02-07 00:16 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! "I'm Batman, Dammit" <batman@thecave.invalid> - 2014-02-07 09:44 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 03:39 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 22:46 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 23:14 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-10 01:55 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 21:12 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-09 18:28 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 23:35 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 12:39 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-11 04:05 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 09:25 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:11 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-26 22:20 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-02 23:40 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 17:14 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-05 10:05 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:03 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-07 10:47 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! CoolHand <coolhnd28@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 21:40 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! JJ <jjdane@nospamgmail.com> - 2014-02-08 08:51 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Austin Wolfe <aewolfe@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2014-03-05 01:58 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-05 09:37 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-03-05 14:25 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-03-05 07:02 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-06 10:55 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-06 12:09 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-06 14:13 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-06 16:56 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-06 17:05 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 14:39 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-16 17:25 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-19 22:47 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-03-17 08:20 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-19 22:55 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-06 21:18 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-06 23:00 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-07 00:53 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-07 04:58 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 10:11 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-07 21:04 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-07 10:52 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-07 13:02 +0200
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-07 12:26 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-07 15:15 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-07 20:55 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-03-06 14:03 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-06 17:55 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-06 13:43 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-03-06 10:48 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-06 19:45 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 13:15 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 20:25 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-03-10 14:07 -0700
Usenet Archive (was. Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees!) Christian <chris_news@arcor.de> - 2014-03-22 09:40 +0100
Re: Usenet Archive (was. Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees!) "voyager529" <voyager529@live.com> - 2015-03-27 10:14 -0400
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-10 21:55 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-10 22:25 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 06:14 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 07:55 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 08:38 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 08:08 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-11 10:31 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-10 22:26 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-03-11 10:42 +0100
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-03-10 22:05 -0700
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Chris Elvidge <chris@raspberrypi.mshome.net> - 2014-03-11 10:48 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 09:48 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-05 15:22 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! nobody@nowhere.invalid (natp) - 2014-03-06 02:42 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-06 06:08 -0600
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-06 14:10 +0200
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-06 13:26 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-03-06 16:56 +0200
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-06 18:25 +0200
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-07 11:55 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-07 19:30 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 03:35 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 12:37 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-25 23:50 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 14:23 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 00:15 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 16:41 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 10:09 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 15:44 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Brian Burns <spamcan@tannasg.tk> - 2014-02-08 17:18 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-08 18:34 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 19:52 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 10:25 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 03:20 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 09:36 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! junkmailid1@gmail.com - 2014-02-09 13:27 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-02-10 00:31 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! AnonymousCoward <florian.doyon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 04:50 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! gm_stack <gm@stackunderflow.com> - 2014-02-10 05:04 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! arcfide@sacrideo.us (Aaron W. Hsu) - 2014-02-23 03:02 -0500
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 09:34 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-23 07:31 -0800
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 17:36 +0000
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-23 12:23 +0200
Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-02-26 17:30 +0000
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| From | CoolHand <coolhnd28@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2014-02-07 21:40 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <ld45ei$la$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #77 |
John Brownalt wrote: > On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hello all Slashdot refugees. Let me be the first to inagurate a new >> era of Dice-free Slashdotters reveling in the freedom of Usenet, the >> grand-daddy of Internet discussion forums. >> >> Plus this thing supports Unicode! すごい！ >> > > OMG Poniez!!! I think it must have been a decade since I've > "followed up" on a usenet post. > > Rock On Refugees!!! I know, right?? I totally forgot how to use a news client..
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| From | JJ <jjdane@nospamgmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-02-08 08:51 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <vaobf91dpk5t3mtffvk3rc48af94bdpq2k@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #101 |
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:40:18 -0500, CoolHand <coolhnd28@yahoo.com> wrote: >John Brownalt wrote: > >> On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hello all Slashdot refugees. Let me be the first to inagurate a new >>> era of Dice-free Slashdotters reveling in the freedom of Usenet, the >>> grand-daddy of Internet discussion forums. >>> >>> Plus this thing supports Unicode! ???? >>> >> >> OMG Poniez!!! I think it must have been a decade since I've >> "followed up" on a usenet post. >> >> Rock On Refugees!!! > >I know, right?? I totally forgot how to use a news client.. Happily, Agent doesn't seem to have changed much since the turn of the century :-) -- Regards, Jayjay
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| From | Austin Wolfe <aewolfe@sdf.lonestar.org> |
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| Date | 2014-03-05 01:58 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <lf60cv$rbv$1@odin.sdf-eu.org> |
| In reply to | #77 |
John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> wrote: > On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hello all Slashdot refugees. Let me be the first to inagurate a new >> era of Dice-free Slashdotters reveling in the freedom of Usenet, the >> grand-daddy of Internet discussion forums. >> >> Plus this thing supports Unicode! ???? >> > > OMG Poniez!!! I think it must have been a decade since I've > "followed up" on a usenet post. > > Rock On Refugees!!! It has been a very long time since I have been on Usenet and it has been at least a decade since I have followed up on a post also. Austin -- aewolfe@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
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| Date | 2014-03-05 09:37 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <bno9i8FjltkU2@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #1252 |
On 2014-03-05, Austin Wolfe <aewolfe@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> wrote: >> On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hello all Slashdot refugees. Let me be the first to inagurate a new >>> era of Dice-free Slashdotters reveling in the freedom of Usenet, the >>> grand-daddy of Internet discussion forums. >>> >>> Plus this thing supports Unicode! ???? >>> >> >> OMG Poniez!!! I think it must have been a decade since I've >> "followed up" on a usenet post. >> >> Rock On Refugees!!! > > It has been a very long time since I have been on Usenet and it > has been at least a decade since I have followed up on a post also. OTOH, some of us never left. Web forums are vile. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 64th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3180 "Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath"
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| From | "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> |
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| Date | 2014-03-05 14:25 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <531725d9$0$2949$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> |
| In reply to | #1256 |
op 05-03-14 10:37 schreef Huge: > On 2014-03-05, Austin Wolfe <aewolfe@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: >> John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> wrote: >>> On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> Hello all Slashdot refugees. Let me be the first to inagurate a new >>>> era of Dice-free Slashdotters reveling in the freedom of Usenet, the >>>> grand-daddy of Internet discussion forums. >>>> >>>> Plus this thing supports Unicode! ???? >>>> >>> >>> OMG Poniez!!! I think it must have been a decade since I've >>> "followed up" on a usenet post. >>> >>> Rock On Refugees!!! >> >> It has been a very long time since I have been on Usenet and it >> has been at least a decade since I have followed up on a post also. > > OTOH, some of us never left. Web forums are vile. > > Amen! Usenet is Useful :)
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| From | Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> |
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| Date | 2014-03-05 07:02 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <FdqdnXNx6NMMoYrOnZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #1264 |
On 3/5/2014 5:25 AM PT, Dirk T. Verbeek typed:
...
> Usenet is Useful :)
Ditto. I will use it forever! :)
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| From | greymausg <maus@mail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 10:55 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnlhgi0v.3ag.maus@gmaus.org> |
| In reply to | #1268 |
On 2014-03-05, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote: > On 3/5/2014 5:25 AM PT, Dirk T. Verbeek typed: > ... >> Usenet is Useful :) > > Ditto. I will use it forever! :) some Agents used on this group: 11 Mozilla 9 G2 5 slrn 4 Forte 3 tin 2 Gnus 1 Thoth 1 Pan 1 NewsTap 1 NewsgroupsRT 1 Microsoft 1 Claws 1 Alpine (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups). There are other agents but they do not include agent headers, I think) -- maus . . ...
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| From | RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 12:09 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <lf9ohn$4fv$1@solani.org> |
| In reply to | #1284 |
On 2014-03-06, greymausg <maus@mail.com> wrote: > some Agents used on this group: > > 11 Mozilla > 9 G2 > 5 slrn > 4 Forte > 3 tin > 2 Gnus > 1 Thoth > 1 Pan > 1 NewsTap > 1 NewsgroupsRT > 1 Microsoft > 1 Claws > 1 Alpine > > (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups). There are other agents but they do > not include agent headers, I think) G2 is Gravity, I think, a Win app. I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit. I also use on a daily basis depending on what machine I'm in front of: Newswatcher MT (Mac OSX) Unison (Mac OSX) NNTP Reader (Android) Phonews (Android) Knode (Linux/KDE) Seamonkey (several OSes) (guess that's Mozilla on the above list)
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| From | Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 14:13 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <lf9sa4$auu$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #1286 |
On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to
comp.misc...
> On 2014-03-06, greymausg <maus@mail.com> wrote:
>> some Agents used on this group:
>>
>> 11 Mozilla
>> 9 G2
>> 5 slrn
>> 4 Forte
>> 3 tin
>> 2 Gnus
>> 1 Thoth
>> 1 Pan
>> 1 NewsTap
>> 1 NewsgroupsRT
>> 1 Microsoft
>> 1 Claws
>> 1 Alpine
>>
>> (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups). There are other agents but they do
>> not include agent headers, I think)
I use KNode, and it does include headers. :p
> G2 is Gravity, I think, a Win app.
Nope, G2 is Google Gropes. :p Gravity identifies itself by its name in
the User-Agent header - or at least, insofar as I've seen it being used.
> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit.
Better get yourself a bucket then. :p
--
= Aragorn =
http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157
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| From | Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 16:56 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <4g9hh9hrch0p1b7gd6vabfhsndkm08bemp@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1288 |
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:13:31 +0100, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to >comp.misc... > >> On 2014-03-06, greymausg <maus@mail.com> wrote: >>> some Agents used on this group: >>> >>> 11 Mozilla >>> 9 G2 >>> 5 slrn >>> 4 Forte >>> 3 tin >>> 2 Gnus >>> 1 Thoth >>> 1 Pan >>> 1 NewsTap >>> 1 NewsgroupsRT >>> 1 Microsoft >>> 1 Claws >>> 1 Alpine >>> >>> (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups). There are other agents but they do >>> not include agent headers, I think) > >I use KNode, and it does include headers. :p > >> G2 is Gravity, I think, a Win app. > >Nope, G2 is Google Gropes. :p Gravity identifies itself by its name in >the User-Agent header - or at least, insofar as I've seen it being used. > >> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit. > >Better get yourself a bucket then. :p I take it that this a reference to the famous "Bit Bucket" I've seen frequent mentions of, which I have yet to clap eyes upon. Mind you, I've never seen any actual 'write only memory' chips either - they're invisible, you can see right through them to the sockets they're plugged into. 'Bit Buckets' and WOM chips are, to my knowledge (and IME), in the device class described as 'Mythical'. A very useful metaphorical construct to help visualise 'data flow' in some data processing systems (notably email and news client software). -- Regards, J B Good
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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 17:05 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnlhhanm.2njt.g.kreme@amelia.local> |
| In reply to | #1303 |
In message <4g9hh9hrch0p1b7gd6vabfhsndkm08bemp@4ax.com> Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:13:31 +0100, Aragorn > <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >>On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to >>comp.misc... >> >>> On 2014-03-06, greymausg <maus@mail.com> wrote: >>>> some Agents used on this group: >>>> >>>> 11 Mozilla >>>> 9 G2 >>>> 5 slrn >>>> 4 Forte >>>> 3 tin >>>> 2 Gnus >>>> 1 Thoth >>>> 1 Pan >>>> 1 NewsTap >>>> 1 NewsgroupsRT >>>> 1 Microsoft >>>> 1 Claws >>>> 1 Alpine >>>> >>>> (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups). There are other agents but they do >>>> not include agent headers, I think) >> >>I use KNode, and it does include headers. :p >> >>> G2 is Gravity, I think, a Win app. >> >>Nope, G2 is Google Gropes. :p Gravity identifies itself by its name in >>the User-Agent header - or at least, insofar as I've seen it being used. >> >>> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit. >> >>Better get yourself a bucket then. :p > I take it that this a reference to the famous "Bit Bucket" I've seen > frequent mentions of, which I have yet to clap eyes upon. > Mind you, I've never seen any actual 'write only memory' chips either > - they're invisible, you can see right through them to the sockets > they're plugged into. > 'Bit Buckets' and WOM chips are, to my knowledge (and IME), in the > device class described as 'Mythical'. A very useful metaphorical > construct to help visualise 'data flow' in some data processing > systems (notably email and news client software). Every real computer has write-only memory at /dev/null. Coincidentally, this doubles as the bit bucket. -- YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME? --Hogfather
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| From | Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> |
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| Date | 2014-03-16 14:39 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <a5mgva-c7n1.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
| In reply to | #1304 |
On 2014-03-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > In message <4g9hh9hrch0p1b7gd6vabfhsndkm08bemp@4ax.com> > Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> wrote: >> >> Mind you, I've never seen any actual 'write only memory' chips either >> - they're invisible, you can see right through them to the sockets >> they're plugged into. > >> 'Bit Buckets' and WOM chips are, to my knowledge (and IME), in the >> device class described as 'Mythical'. A very useful metaphorical >> construct to help visualise 'data flow' in some data processing >> systems (notably email and news client software). > > Every real computer has write-only memory at /dev/null. Coincidentally, > this doubles as the bit bucket. I've come across write-only backup tapes too, aka DAT. :-( -- Paul Sture "In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."
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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
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| Date | 2014-03-16 17:25 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnlibnji.1f49.g.kreme@amelia.local> |
| In reply to | #1680 |
In message <a5mgva-c7n1.ln1@news.chingola.ch> Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote: > On 2014-03-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >> In message <4g9hh9hrch0p1b7gd6vabfhsndkm08bemp@4ax.com> >> Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> wrote: >>> >>> Mind you, I've never seen any actual 'write only memory' chips either >>> - they're invisible, you can see right through them to the sockets >>> they're plugged into. >> >>> 'Bit Buckets' and WOM chips are, to my knowledge (and IME), in the >>> device class described as 'Mythical'. A very useful metaphorical >>> construct to help visualise 'data flow' in some data processing >>> systems (notably email and news client software). >> >> Every real computer has write-only memory at /dev/null. Coincidentally, >> this doubles as the bit bucket. > I've come across write-only backup tapes too, aka DAT. :-( Yep. And yet, I never had a 9-track fail on me. -- U is for UNA who slipped down a drain V is for VICTOR squashed by a train
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| From | Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> |
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| Date | 2014-03-19 22:47 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <fsfpva-5mp.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
| In reply to | #1684 |
On 2014-03-16, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > In message <a5mgva-c7n1.ln1@news.chingola.ch> > Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote: >> On 2014-03-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >>> In message <4g9hh9hrch0p1b7gd6vabfhsndkm08bemp@4ax.com> >>> Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Mind you, I've never seen any actual 'write only memory' chips either >>>> - they're invisible, you can see right through them to the sockets >>>> they're plugged into. >>> >>>> 'Bit Buckets' and WOM chips are, to my knowledge (and IME), in the >>>> device class described as 'Mythical'. A very useful metaphorical >>>> construct to help visualise 'data flow' in some data processing >>>> systems (notably email and news client software). >>> >>> Every real computer has write-only memory at /dev/null. Coincidentally, >>> this doubles as the bit bucket. > >> I've come across write-only backup tapes too, aka DAT. :-( > > Yep. And yet, I never had a 9-track fail on me. I recall many hassles reading 9-track tapes but it was usually down to folks claiming they'd sent it at one density when in fact it was another. Patience usually won. -- Paul Sture "In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."
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| From | Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> |
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| Date | 2014-03-17 08:20 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <vkbdi9h22koh9sf5p867cmllkqj7cjq3sc@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1680 |
Paul Sture wrote: >I've come across write-only backup tapes too, aka DAT. :-( On my first PC I used tape backup, but the drives all failed (and were replaced FOC) after 6 months of light domestic use, rendering irretrievable anything on the tape it failed with. The failure mode appeared to leave it trying fruitlessly to do some sort of error recovery, but it just spent hours shuffling the tape to and fro, until I had to put it out of its misery. After the fourth, which was a completely new design, I lost all faith in a backup system which was far less reliable than the system it was supposedly protecting. My next system used what was then rather expensive DVD-RAM, though it worked well, at a time when its capacity was (just) sufficient. Chris -- Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK chris@cdixon.me.uk Plant amazing Acers.
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| From | Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> |
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| Date | 2014-03-19 22:55 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <fbgpva-5mp.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
| In reply to | #1704 |
On 2014-03-17, Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> wrote: > Paul Sture wrote: > >>I've come across write-only backup tapes too, aka DAT. :-( > > On my first PC I used tape backup, but the drives all failed (and > were replaced FOC) after 6 months of light domestic use, > rendering irretrievable anything on the tape it failed with. I used to work in a place with lots of tape drives and fortunately the DLT-IV drives were very reliable. The few DAT drives were under maintenance contract and always getting replaced - I couldn't help but think most of the replacements were refurbished. > The failure mode appeared to leave it trying fruitlessly to do > some sort of error recovery, but it just spent hours shuffling > the tape to and fro, until I had to put it out of its misery. That's know as "shoe shining" and is definitely going to wear the heads. > After the fourth, which was a completely new design, I lost all > faith in a backup system which was far less reliable than the > system it was supposedly protecting. I don't blame you. > My next system used what was then rather expensive DVD-RAM, > though it worked well, at a time when its capacity was (just) > sufficient. When my home DAT drive died DVDs were still expensive so I survived on CDs until DVD prices dropped. -- Paul Sture "In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."
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| From | Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 21:18 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <lfal6c$gi6$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #1303 |
On Thursday 06 March 2014 17:56, Johny B Good conveyed the following to
comp.misc...
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:13:31 +0100, Aragorn
> <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to
>> comp.misc...
>>
>>> On 2014-03-06, greymausg <maus@mail.com> wrote:
>>>> some Agents used on this group:
>>>>
>>>> 11 Mozilla
>>>> 9 G2
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups).
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> G2 is Gravity, I think, a Win app.
>>
>> Nope, G2 is Google Gropes. :p Gravity identifies itself by its name
>> in the User-Agent header - or at least, insofar as I've seen it being
>> used.
>>
>>> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit.
>>
>> Better get yourself a bucket then. :p
>
> I take it that this a reference to the famous "Bit Bucket" I've seen
> frequent mentions of, which I have yet to clap eyes upon. [...]
No, I meant a real bucket. He said he was going to vomit, see. :p
--
= Aragorn =
http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157
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| From | Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> |
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| Date | 2014-03-06 23:00 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <tavhh91n8i4lfj8a7u0fjf6p1om07jlmna@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1310 |
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:18:20 +0100, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >On Thursday 06 March 2014 17:56, Johny B Good conveyed the following to >comp.misc... > >> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:13:31 +0100, Aragorn >> <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to >>> comp.misc... >>> >>>> On 2014-03-06, greymausg <maus@mail.com> wrote: >>>>> some Agents used on this group: >>>>> >>>>> 11 Mozilla >>>>> 9 G2 >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> (G2 is, I think, GooGleGroups). >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>> >>>> G2 is Gravity, I think, a Win app. >>> >>> Nope, G2 is Google Gropes. :p Gravity identifies itself by its name >>> in the User-Agent header - or at least, insofar as I've seen it being >>> used. >>> >>>> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit. >>> >>> Better get yourself a bucket then. :p >> >> I take it that this a reference to the famous "Bit Bucket" I've seen >> frequent mentions of, which I have yet to clap eyes upon. [...] > >No, I meant a real bucket. He said he was going to vomit, see. :p Oops! My bad. I find it's all too easy to get those two mixed up whenever GoogleGroups is mentioned. -- Regards, J B Good
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| From | Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> |
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| Date | 2014-03-07 00:53 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <lfb1pu$j06$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #1316 |
On Friday 07 March 2014 00:00, Johny B Good conveyed the following to
comp.misc...
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:18:20 +0100, Aragorn
> <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 06 March 2014 17:56, Johny B Good conveyed the following
>> to comp.misc...
>>
>>> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:13:31 +0100, Aragorn
>>> <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to
>>>> comp.misc...
>>>>
>>>>> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit.
>>>>
>>>> Better get yourself a bucket then. :p
>>>
>>> I take it that this a reference to the famous "Bit Bucket" I've
>>> seen frequent mentions of, which I have yet to clap eyes upon. [...]
>>
>> No, I meant a real bucket. He said he was going to vomit, see. :p
>
> Oops! My bad. I find it's all too easy to get those two mixed up
> whenever GoogleGroups is mentioned.
I hear you. Because of the low quality content - read: posters who
persist in maintaining an uncooperative attitude - in combination with
the repulsive mangling of Usenet posts by Google Groups, I have by now
added most of the newsgroups I'm subscribed to to my Google Groups
filter.
Of course, you do get people who reply to them, and some of them are too
lazy to clean up the ugly mess of empty lines - and they don't trim
anything else either! - and those will then still be visible in my
newsreader, but I generally skip those posts unread.
If they can't be bothered getting a real newsreader and one of the many
available free or affordable news servers, and if their responders can't
be bothered cleaning up the mess they reply to and even further
contribute to that mess, then I myself can't be bothered reading their
stuff. I have my own eyes to take care of, and I'm already susceptible
to ocular migraines from staring at my computer screen as it is.
There's this guy on alt.os.linux who posts via Google Groups and never
cleans up his mess, and refuses to set up a proper newsreader. He
claims that nobody's ever complained about that to him before, even
though we've been complaining about his behavior for over a year
already. Now, earlier today, I saw in one of the quotes in a response
to him - from yet another poster who was vainly trying to convince him
to use a proper newsreader - that the guy announced that he had no
intention whatsoever to start using a real newsreader and that he
intents to continue posting through Google Groups.
I call that extreme egotism, or possibly narcissism. And if a person
like that openly and ostensibly demonstrate an uncooperative
personality, then I see no reason why any other advice given to the guy
would not be wasted on him. So why bother in the first place? The
lurking newbies aren't going to wade through that mess without getting a
headache either, so I rather give my advice to people on whom it won't
be wasted, and I skip the rest.
Sounds harsh, perhaps - and I am normally not a hostile or cynical
person - but there is just such a great amount of utter assholes around
that one has to draw the line somewhere sometimes out of sheer self-
preservation, and I for one have been extending too many people too much
credit already over the years. So I'm drawing my lines now. ;-)
--
= Aragorn =
http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157
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| From | Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> |
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| Date | 2014-03-07 04:58 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <gsjih95fhinmv2i03qau9r7ra5pt3vejel@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1320 |
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:53:34 +0100, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >On Friday 07 March 2014 00:00, Johny B Good conveyed the following to >comp.misc... > >> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:18:20 +0100, Aragorn >> <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 06 March 2014 17:56, Johny B Good conveyed the following >>> to comp.misc... >>> >>>> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:13:31 +0100, Aragorn >>>> <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thursday 06 March 2014 13:09, RS Wood conveyed the following to >>>>> comp.misc... >>>>> >>>>>> I hope to God no one is posting from GG here - vomit. >>>>> >>>>> Better get yourself a bucket then. :p >>>> >>>> I take it that this a reference to the famous "Bit Bucket" I've >>>> seen frequent mentions of, which I have yet to clap eyes upon. [...] >>> >>> No, I meant a real bucket. He said he was going to vomit, see. :p >> >> Oops! My bad. I find it's all too easy to get those two mixed up >> whenever GoogleGroups is mentioned. > >I hear you. Because of the low quality content - read: posters who >persist in maintaining an uncooperative attitude - in combination with >the repulsive mangling of Usenet posts by Google Groups, I have by now >added most of the newsgroups I'm subscribed to to my Google Groups >filter. > >Of course, you do get people who reply to them, and some of them are too >lazy to clean up the ugly mess of empty lines - and they don't trim >anything else either! - and those will then still be visible in my >newsreader, but I generally skip those posts unread. > >If they can't be bothered getting a real newsreader and one of the many >available free or affordable news servers, and if their responders can't >be bothered cleaning up the mess they reply to and even further >contribute to that mess, then I myself can't be bothered reading their >stuff. I have my own eyes to take care of, and I'm already susceptible >to ocular migraines from staring at my computer screen as it is. > >There's this guy on alt.os.linux who posts via Google Groups and never >cleans up his mess, and refuses to set up a proper newsreader. He >claims that nobody's ever complained about that to him before, even >though we've been complaining about his behavior for over a year >already. Now, earlier today, I saw in one of the quotes in a response >to him - from yet another poster who was vainly trying to convince him >to use a proper newsreader - that the guy announced that he had no >intention whatsoever to start using a real newsreader and that he >intents to continue posting through Google Groups. > >I call that extreme egotism, or possibly narcissism. And if a person >like that openly and ostensibly demonstrate an uncooperative >personality, then I see no reason why any other advice given to the guy >would not be wasted on him. So why bother in the first place? The >lurking newbies aren't going to wade through that mess without getting a >headache either, so I rather give my advice to people on whom it won't >be wasted, and I skip the rest. > >Sounds harsh, perhaps - and I am normally not a hostile or cynical >person - but there is just such a great amount of utter assholes around >that one has to draw the line somewhere sometimes out of sheer self- >preservation, and I for one have been extending too many people too much >credit already over the years. So I'm drawing my lines now. ;-) I take a more relaxed attitude with that type of poster. After some 16 years or so of posting to usenet, I've long since learned that it's a waste of time telling a fuckwit that he's a fuckwit (which is what I feel like saying after they've taken umbridge when I've bothered to gently set them straight). If 'Softly Softly' gets you nowhere, there's just no point in arguing the toss any further. There's plenty of self absorbed "You can't tell me what do!" types around, and not all of them are GGers. Life's just to short to take this shit too seriously afaIac. -- Regards, J B Good
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