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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Ping Agent Users
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 01:56:58 +1100
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On 23/12/2024 9:54 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:22:08 +0000, Brian Howie
> <Brian@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:19:44 +0000, Brian Howie <Brian@nospam.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:09:54 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>> wrote:

<snip>

> Yes, indeed. That does work and I did actually thank legg for
> suggesting it but for some reason the post doesn't seem to have
> appeared. Not the only recent post I've made that simply disappeared
> into the ether. Probably something to do with Bill Sloman. ;->

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality does seem to be fading away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup

makes it clear that posts to one instance of a user-group get passed on 
to all the others. It's one more application of the original Arpanet idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

If Cursitor Doom's posts "disappear into the ether", he didn't put them 
in properly in the first place. Once the data packet has been launched 
into the internet you don't know how it will get to it's intended 
destination which makes it pretty much impossible to block it.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney