Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> trolled:
> notbob wrote:

> > ... The only advantage Google can offer is, it's free.

> As are, to the best of my knowledge, Knode, Slrn, Tin, Trn, and any
> number of other news reading clients which normally don't exhibit the
> faults you've pointed out from the OP's post from Google.

> Still, a conscious decision to use Google does suggest that he isn't
> using it out of ignorance, nor is the OP required to justify his
> decision to us here.

True. But if he posts incorrectly he will find that very few will
bother reading his posts in the future. This should be made clear
to him.

Google, OE, and top-posting, are destroying usenet.

cordially, as always,

rm
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Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:

> notbob wrote:
>
> > ... The only advantage Google can offer is, it's free.
>
> As are, to the best of my knowledge, Knode, Slrn, Tin, Trn, and any

Yes, but the the clients aren't the service. Google is both a client
and a service. I should have clarified.

> using it out of ignorance, nor is the OP required to justify his
> decision to us here.

As I acknowledged in the first sentence of my post.

nb

john@wexfordpress.com wrote :

> Thanks for a helpful reply. I am neither as dumb as Dan C alleges nor
> as brilliant as ANC
>
Dan C has an issue with all postings from Google-groups, and it seems
like his having an issue with his newsreader too since he cant filter
out those postings.

And ANC, well, he has an issue with all active users of this group.
--
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This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

notbob wrote:

> Everyone has the right to use the news client of choice, of course,
> but what possible advantages can Google provide that a good news
> client cannot? In the above short paragraph alone, I see two
> problems. You have no attributes to the post you are replying to.
> Who is it? Dan or A-B? Please, if you are going to use Google,
> enable the function that includes text from previous post and trim
> accordingly. And, Google software apparently has poor line wrap
> and/or formating abilities or maybe you just hit the CR too soon. I
> know full well Knode can to better than that. The only advantage
> Google can offer is, it's free.
>
> nb

O my.
Any newsreader that uses the "references" and "in-reply-to"
information to display a threaded view (like this Mozilla Mail/News
client) will show all the attributes you need.
Yes, I write this on Windows. Yes, I have nothing against (people)
using Google Groups. Yes, I have nothing against using Windows. Let
everyone use the best tools for their particular purposes.

And yes, including a little quoted context does not harm readability
:-) Stirred the flames enough?

Eric

Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 08 May 2006 05:29:41 -0700, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with Kmail that is allegedly solved in KDE 3.5.2. Is
>> there a Slack package for KDE 3.5.2?
>> I can't seem to find it. I run Slack Current.
>
> You run -current, but can't use a proper newsreader?
>
> Sorry, I don't help idiots who post from Google Groups.
>

Sorry but that's the last of your posts I will see.

Fran

> notbob wrote:
>
>> Everyone has the right to use the news client of choice, of course,
>> but what possible advantages can Google provide that a good news
>> client cannot? In the above short paragraph alone, I see two
>> problems. You have no attributes to the post you are replying to.
>> Who is it? Dan or A-B? Please, if you are going to use Google,
>> enable the function that includes text from previous post and trim
>> accordingly. And, Google software apparently has poor line wrap
>> and/or formating abilities or maybe you just hit the CR too soon. I
>> know full well Knode can to better than that. The only advantage
>> Google can offer is, it's free.

You can use google groups while on the road to read and post to the
newsgroup. Since my own local ISP only allows me to post from home not on
the road. They authenticate based upon the post coming from one of their
IP addresses (apparently this also applies to email as well).

Scott Cole

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

Scott Cole <haldir@bnin.net> wrote:
: You can use google groups while on the road to read and post to the
: newsgroup. Since my own local ISP only allows me to post from home not on
: the road. They authenticate based upon the post coming from one of their
: IP addresses (apparently this also applies to email as well).

So post from home while on the road... SSH in to your home machine and post
via command line from there. That's the beauty of being networked; you're not
tied to the physical machine that your are using ATM. In fact, the machine I
am posting from right now is 300 miles away from my physical location. I'm
just SSHed into it to check email and Usenet.

Melissa Danforth wrote:

<SNIP>

> So post from home while on the road... SSH in to your home machine and post
> via command line from there. That's the beauty of being networked; you're not
> tied to the physical machine that your are using ATM. In fact, the machine I
> am posting from right now is 300 miles away from my physical location. I'm
> just SSHed into it to check email and Usenet.

There are those of us who are unable to ssh into their home machines
while away for several reasons.

I do know about ssh'ing into the home system, but my home machine is
actually part of another NAT'ed (wireless) subnet of the office subnet
that's NAT'ed from our ISP that is not easily accessible.

Slightly convoluted, but there are some things that are just plain
easier to do from web services like GG.

Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 08 May 2006 05:29:41 -0700, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>
> You run -current, but can't use a proper newsreader?
>
> Sorry, I don't help idiots who post from Google Groups.
>

Nobody asked for your help. Just admit you have no clue what the answer is,
and decided to be a total a** about in instead of just not saying anything.

I was wondering... when will you realize that you are a troll and no one
cares about what you have to say?

You should learn to STFU and get a life... Trust me, one day, when you grow
up, stop touching yourselves and decide to move out of your parent's house,
you and a few other trolls in this place will realize it can be useful.

Sincerely,

A fellow usenet user who's had enough of that crap

On Tue, 09 May 2006 09:02:06 +1200, Fran wrote:

>> Sorry, I don't help idiots who post from Google Groups.

> Sorry but that's the last of your posts I will see.

Oh no!!!

> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 7.10.2600.1158

I've been plonked by a fucking moron using Outhouse Excuse! Whatever will
I do now? I'm so broken up by this!

Run along, win-droid. You're an idiot.

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