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Re: New Usenapp user

From David <David@home.today>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: New Usenapp user
Date 2025-02-20 13:02 +0000
Message-ID <m1onftFl1urU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 20/02/2025 12:17, John wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2025 11:40:22 GMT, Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 19. Feb 2025 at 11:54:18 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>>
>>> Please? For me? To be nice?
>>
>> Could you (and anyone else) please just stop responding to him?
>>
>> Pretty please?
> 
>   I generally don't respond to the 'nymshifter but I thought that the
> making of one small request in twenty years or so would not be
> considered excessive and would not really be thought to be feeding him
> oxygen.
> 
>   So, I was wrong and apparently I did a Really Bad Thing(TM). My
> mistake. I won't do it again.
> 
>   Thank you ever so much for the lovely, polite response, I will
> treasure it forever. I am sure that the 'nymshifter will also be very
> happy with it as he has seen many, many requests not to respond to him
> over the decades and knows that they are universally ignored by
> everyone. Still, surely *your* impassioned, reasonable plea for us not
> to engage him will no doubt be completely effective.
> 
>   I am fairly sure that my plea that he stop changing his pseudonym,
> email addresses and other identifying marks, that he never again
> 'nymshift, will, in the name of decency, compassion and politeness be
> accepted in the gentle spirit in which it was offered and will be
> immediately and forever respected by him.
> 
>   I just know that he has done his last shift.
> 
>   Still, as per the above, I won't ask him again. I will respect your
> wishes, for I am really ever so nice.

He's just pissed that his lot lost the war! ;-)

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New Usenapp user Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-02-18 14:12 +0000
  Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-18 14:25 +0000
    Re: New Usenapp user Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-02-18 14:34 +0000
      Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-18 14:37 +0000
    New Usenapp user David <BD@invalid.email> - 2025-02-18 15:40 +0000
      Re: New Usenapp user Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-02-18 16:40 +0000
        Re: New Usenapp user David <BD@invalid.email> - 2025-02-18 17:08 +0000
          Re: New Usenapp user Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-02-18 21:33 +0000
          Re: New Usenapp user Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-02-19 05:07 +0000
            Re: New Usenapp user David <BD@changed.today> - 2025-02-19 08:54 +0000
              Re: New Usenapp user David <David@home.today> - 2025-02-19 09:03 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-19 10:54 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2025-02-19 11:40 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-20 12:17 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user David <David@home.today> - 2025-02-20 13:02 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 03:06 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 03:06 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 03:06 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user David <David@home.today> - 2025-02-19 14:42 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 03:25 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 04:39 +0000
              Re: New Usenapp user % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-02-19 06:03 -0700
              Re: New Usenapp user Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-02-19 13:43 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user David <David@home.today> - 2025-02-19 22:37 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-02-20 00:13 +0000
              Re: New Usenapp user Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-02-19 15:51 +0000
                Re: New Usenapp user % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-02-19 09:09 -0700
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            Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 03:38 +0000
          Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-19 07:40 +0000
            Re: New Usenapp user John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-26 04:00 +0000
    Re: New Usenapp user Frederick <fred@ypical.demon.invalid> - 2025-02-18 18:25 +0000
      Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-18 18:38 +0000
      Re: New Usenapp user David <BD@changed.today> - 2025-02-18 21:22 +0000
  Re: New Usenapp user snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-02-18 20:45 +0000
    Re: New Usenapp user David <BD@changed.today> - 2025-02-18 21:10 +0000
    Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-19 09:16 +0000
  Re: New Usenapp user nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-02-18 22:38 +0100
  Re: New Usenapp user Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2025-02-19 07:50 +0000
  Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-20 12:57 +0000
    Re: New Usenapp user Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-02-21 18:21 +0000
      Re: New Usenapp user Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-01 10:20 +0000

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