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From: Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
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Subject: Re: making posts unreadable for google groupers?
Date: 22 Sep 2007 00:45:24 GMT
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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 in
> <slrnff8g90.n7t.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,...:
>
>> Hey, I just put two and two together.  Perhaps you missed my comments
>> *against* that kind of fuckery by a day or two because you *just*
>> subscribed to this group.
>
> Yup.  I should have lurked longer before jumping into what is
> obviously part of a long running debate.

Not a problem.  Good plan, but I'm not bagging you for not.  I was just
rolling with what I though was unfolding in front of me once the light
bulb came on above my sleek and salt-watery head.  :)

>>  Perhaps you're the Jeffrey that a couple days ago left a nice
>>  comment at the UIP, which is now on the Feedback page.  And perhaps
>>  you dropped by here because of the UIP recommendation of the group.
>
> Correct on almost all counts.  You personally recommended to me that I
> subscribe to this group.  It may have come up after I mentioned that I
> actually switched clients (Thunderbird to alpine) to have the
> necessary filtering ability.

Ah!  Right...in my reply.  I didn't see a response to my question about
which clients you moved from or to; my "from" guess was Thunderbird
since you were in search of decent filtering.  I've never heard of
alpine.  And I notice it's not setting a User-Agent (or X-Newsreader, or
similar) header, so not many other people are going to know of it,
either.

> Anyway, the UIP and XNA have been actively discussed on
> comp.sys.mac.apps 

Ah!  Alpine must be for Mac; without the User-Agent (or similar header)
your operating system is not shown, either.  <clickety>  Wait -- I see
both in your Message-ID header.  That's better, but not optimal; I think
many people do what I do and include User-Agent and equivalent headers
in their normal, partial headers view, but not Message-ID; we won't see
your UA and OS in your MID header unless we go looking for it.

> where many of the regulars have become fed up with GG.  At least among
> the 

Great!  Always glad to hear when the folks in other groups are waking
up.  And being not a Mac-head myself, that's a place I'd not reach
myself.  Keep the faith; spread the faith.  :)

> vocal people in that crowd, their rationale for XNA is part of
> general, and IMO poorly focused, hostility to Google.  So your
> explanation of "it 

XNA just diminishes the archive, and the archive itself is not the
problem.  GG posting is.  Well, and the archive's user interface just
keeps going downhill.  http://blinkynet.net/comp/gggui.html

> bugs them" as the reason behind talk of borking Google is something I 

Remember, the "it" there was about Google Groupers, not about Google
itself.

> should have understood properly, without misattributing that sentiment
> to you.

No problem.  We've cleared it up.

And welcome to n.s.r -- I hope you like the group enough to stick
around, even though I doubt you're going to get any alpine action here.


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Blinky                                                   RLU 297263 
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