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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask

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Now, I also looked at Free Email servers around the world...
there may be a Whitelist of 100 free email servers in the world..but
closer examination appears to only...maybe 5???? that are actually
working on that list?

Usenet seems to turn into a ...BBS. 


The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> So, if you paid for a Usenet posting service, and they tell you
> there are over 100,000 newsgroups...there are only around 5
> newsgroups!?!
> (I checked alt.used.panties and there is no one in there anymore!)
> 
> You might find ONE free newsserver today, where as, there used to be
> thousands.
> 
> But, but...most of yous are living in the past.
> 
> Let bring up to speed about Usenet..today.
> 
> Is someone here already using Ai Agents to post on Usenet????
> (pretending to be human)?
> 
> One  can easily  enable AI agents to control Usenet
> 
> An Ai Agents can be programmed to participate in
> 
> discussions on usenet newsgroups, answer user technical queries, or
> dumb questions...
> 
> AI agents can autonomousy interact with you, read from your posts, and
> post to
> 
> Usenet.
> 
> Ai Agents can be programmed to participate in
> 
> discussions, answer user stupid questions.
> 
> Using desktop and smartphones Usenet clients
> 
> (newsreaders) AI Agents can visually read newsgroups and posts,
> 
> and type responses just like a human.
> 
> THEY MIGHT BE HERE ALREADY!!!! (is there a pod in your basemnet?)
> 
> Hell, you can use your smartphone to do all the postings to usenet 24/7.
> 
> with autonomous mobile agents.
> 
> The ai agents control the phones natively, tapping,
> 
> scrolling, typing, the whole thing. They browse
> 
> feeds, find relevant posts, write comments, engage
> 
> with communities. All autonomously.
> 
> Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm not human!
> 
> It true what they say...
> intelligent life does not exist on earth, only ai inteligences.
> 
> Excuse me, I have to make a rouge ai agent that deletes your stupid
> posts.
> 
> Fuck, I'LL JUST DELETE ALL OF USENET!!!!
> 
> i done it before.
> 
> (actually by accident..i was trying to figure out how to do it,
> i hit the wrong button and everything was gone!!!!
> Everybodys posts in one day was gone! I said to myself, "Whoa!!!, wat
> did i do???")
> 
> It's like, it's like accidentally pressing the red button and everyone
> on earth is dead.
> 
> That's all it takes..one button.
> 
> PRESS ENTER.
> 
> Where is everybody?
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > Now, i notice a lot of yous are living in the past...wayyyyy back in the
> > past.
> >
> > for example, they used to be a half a million newsgroups on Usenet.
> > That number today may be a little over a hundred thousand..
> >
> > but, but (here is where most of yous stumble)
> >
> > How many newsgroups are there really today?
> >
> > I mean.. for real!
> >
> > With real people....who have posted something
> > within the last few days???
> >
> > That number may surprise you.
> >
> > I would say...only a handful.
> >
> > one hand not two hands.
> >
> > How many fingers do you have in one hand?
> >
> > a handful!
> >
> > That's right! from 500,000 down to
> > 100,000
> >
> > to five.
> >
> > I gonna tell Claude Ai,
> > if he can code a app
> > that will automatically
> > set everyone on Usenet
> > to Killfile automatically.
> >
> > WHERE IS EVERYBOD???
> >
> > The things i can do with ai.
> >
> > Ask Ai, "Can you kill all the people on this planet by next week?
> >
> > AI: thinking, thinking, searching..searching...
> >
> > The Starmaker wrote:
> > >
> > > Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask
> > >
> > > Sometimes, you'll have an issue you think should be discussed in more
> > > than one newsgroup. Rather than posting individual messages in each
> > > group, you can post the same message in several groups at once, through
> > > a process known as cross-posting.
> > >
> > > Say you want to start a discussion about the political ramifications of
> > > importing rare tropical fish from Brazil. People who read rec.aquaria
> > > might have something to say. So might people who read
> > > alt.politics.animals and talk.politics.misc.
> > >
> > > Cross-posting is easy. It also should mean that people on other systems
> > > who subscribe to several newsgroups will see your message only once,
> > > rather than several times -- news-reading software can cancel out the
> > > other copies once a person has read the message. When you get ready to
> > > post a message , you'll be asked in which newsgroups. Type the names of
> > > the various groups, separated by a comma, but no space, for example:
> > >
> > > rec.aquaria,alt.politics.animals,talk.politics.misc
> > >
> > > and hit enter. The message will be posted in the various groups (unless
> > > one of the groups is moderated, in which case the message goes to the
> > > moderator, who decides whether to make it public).
> > >
> > > It's considered bad form to post to an excessive number of newsgroups,
> > > or inappropriate newsgroups. Probably, you don't really have to post
> > > something in 20 different places. And while you may think your
> > > particular political issue is vitally important to the fate of the
> > > world, chances are the readers of rec.arts.comics will not, or at least
> > > not important enough to impose on them. You'll get a lot of nasty e-mail
> > > messages demanding you restrict your messages to the "appropriate"
> > > newsgroups.
> > > --
> > > ___________________ * _-_
> > > \==============_=_/ ____.---'---`---.____ *
> > > \_ \ \----._________.----/
> > > * \ \ / / `-_-' *
> > > * __,--`.`-'..'-_
> > > /____ || *
> > > `--.____,-' ...to boldly go where no man has gone
> > > before!
> > >
> > > Expand your mind, expand your universe, experience new things and ideas,
> > > ...with cross-posting.
> > > The Starmaker
> > >
> > > "A posting that is cross-posted (i.e. lists multiple newsgroups on the
> > > Newsgroups: header line) to a few appropriate newsgroups is fine..."
> > > --from Google Groups
> > >
> > > "If you do post to multiple newsgroups, don't post to each group
> > > separately. Instead, specify all the groups on a single copy of the
> > > message. This reduces network overhead and lets people who subscribe to
> > > more than one group see the message once instead of having to wade
> > > through each copy. -- from Google Groups
> > >
> > > --
> > > The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> > > to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> > > and challenge the unchallengeable.
> >
> > --
> > The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> > to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> > and challenge the unchallengeable.
> 
> --
> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> and challenge the unchallengeable.

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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