Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today... Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 01:34:12 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <1qyz5z0.kcoobeasj0vdN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <87plpt8myv.fsf@tilde.institute> <1qyzc5j.1pwngw9hewu6mN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <20240828194149.1ee1e5962b93f8aa70f60d23@g{oogle}mail.com> <874j749xk4.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:34:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="68210053b61215c41df1735cbf5c265b"; logging-data="60168"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18F7boq0f67N/6rSRw2qlbd" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ne75eRAaNT8I7yzb1Iw5T6vvlgA= Bytes: 1974 On 28 Aug 2024 17:55:55 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote: > Interesting to note that top-posting wasn't mentioned by Net.God in His > commandments. I like to repurpose lawyer jokes for this. ---- The man responded: “No, I’m an asshole!” The first guy said, “Are you a top-poster?” A man in the back of the newsgroup stood up and shouted back at him: “I take exception to that statement and I resent it greatly!” This guy walked into a newsgroup and posted for all to hear: “Top-posters are ASSHOLES!”