>Posting
>test messages to non test newsgroups is ignorance at best, foolish at
>worst. That's why we have alt.test and others like it after all.

He could have posted something other than "test." Perhaps "PGP trash troll
delete."

Michael
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SchroedingerzKat wrote:


> He could have posted something other than "test." Perhaps "PGP trash
> troll delete."

Alan's reply was however directed at a reasonable member of this
newsgroup who's enthusiasm some times runs away with him.
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"...hit the squirrel..."

"Alan Hicks" <alan@lizella.netWORK> wrote in message
news:40dcc4d0$1_2@127.0.0.1...

> Rich, some of the things you do are good (the Norman Rockwell Bob Dobbs
> was simply inspired!), but a lot of the things you do are bad.

M'kay. ;-)

> Posting
> test messages to non test newsgroups is ignorance at best, foolish at
> worst. That's why we have alt.test and others like it after all.

Oh, heavens, it's been common knowledge throughout USENET since the
mid-1990's that I'm an ignorant fool. ;-)

And, of course, by the time I had got to looking for it again, I
already had the other newsreader configured.

I tried knode today - I think I'm in love. I've also been putting
k stuff in my fvwm menu. Pretty proud of that one!

Cheers!
Rich

Two Ravens <tworavens$$@eudoramail.$$com> says...
>
>SchroedingerzKat wrote:
>
>> He could have posted something other than "test." Perhaps "PGP trash
>> troll delete."
>
>Alan's reply was however directed at a reasonable member of this
>newsgroup who's enthusiasm some times runs away with him.

It takes one to know one... <big friendly grin>

Rich Grise wrote :

> I wanted to post to, and I wasn't sure if google would post to an
> alt group.

Did you ever read the "Newsreader stats" posted to this group once a
week? If you did you would have noticed that groups.google.com is there
every week:
Message-ID: <2004-06-12T18-36-21@heaney.example.org>
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"Thomas Overgaard" <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote in message
news:lm50r1-dt1.ln1@news.inet.tele.dk...
>
> Rich Grise wrote :
>
> > I wanted to post to, and I wasn't sure if google would post to an
> > alt group.
>
> Did you ever read the "Newsreader stats" posted to this group once a
> week? If you did you would have noticed that groups.google.com is there
> every week:
> Message-ID: <2004-06-12T18-36-21@heaney.example.org>

Well, um, not exactly..

I wonder, is there a tally of how many fsckups I've made so far in
this thread? ;-)

I got one right - I marked it OT:.
Oh! Another one - I've been bottom-posting!

Other than that, of course, I don't deserve to live. May Bob
have mercy on my soul[0].

Thanks,
Rich

[0] for the humour-impaired: ?;-}

Rich Grise wrote :

> I wonder, is there a tally of how many fsckups I've made so far in
> this thread? ;-)

I guess it was just one of those days that you leave your home with your
fly open.
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in alt.os.linux.slackware, on Friday 25 June 2004 04:19 pm, Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:

> Rich Grise <richardgrise@yahoo.com> says...
>
>>But I didn't _want_ to post to alt.test, because a.o.l.s is the group
>>I wanted to post to, and I wasn't sure if google would post to an
>>alt group.
>
>
> I would have tried posting to alt.test (thus gaining knowledge about
> whether google would post to an alt group) and then posted a normal
> reply to something someone posted, thus testing my ability to post
> to a.o.l.s without anyone even knowing that I was testing as well
> as replying.

My next excuse - when you post at groups.google.com, it says it
can take fromd 3 to 9 hours for your post to appear. Admittedly,
by the fact that it got that far, it should be clear that yes,
it works; but I also had an experience some months ago where
it said it couldn't post to the NG, but that may have been a
typo on my part ... - Now I remember! It wouldn't let me post
to alt.binaries.schemats.electronic.

It's the .binaries.

Brain Fart.
Mea Culpa.
Rich

NPN manna faerie ressurect

Two Ravens wrote:

> SchroedingerzKat wrote:
>
>
>> He could have posted something other than "test." Perhaps "PGP trash
>> troll delete."
>
> Alan's reply was however directed at a reasonable member of this
> newsgroup who's enthusiasm some times runs away with him.

>My next excuse - when you post at groups.google.com, it says it
>can take fromd 3 to 9 hours for your post to appear. Admittedly,
>by the fact that it got that far, it should be clear that yes,
>it works; but I also had an experience some months ago where
>it said it couldn't post to the NG, but that may have been a
>typo on my part ... - Now I remember! It wouldn't let me post
>to alt.binaries.schemats.electronic.

I've heard that groups-beta.google.com has less delay. It's Google Groups 2
beta or something like that. Also email address harvesting is harder there.

Michael
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