Dances With Crows

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:47:11 GMT, who staggered into the Black Sun and
said:

Include context when you post to Usenet. Context restored:

> Jacob Suter wrote:
>>who wrote:
>>> You've always got some self appointed guru that has been named the
>>> grand poopah of the group. Browsing usenet newsgroups is not an
>>> activity that excercizes one's sense of frugality.

Your last sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. What did
you mean?

>>> If I wanted to post a picture that had to do with the problem being
>>> discussed, I would post it and tell the guru to kiss my ***.
>>Its your god given right to clog up a usenet group with your crap
>>because you're too lazy or ignorant to aquire some web hosting?

"who", you don't seem to have ever read anything about basic Usenet
ettiquette. Binary postings are typically not allowed on newsgroups
that don't have "binaries" in their names. Some NNTP admins have set
their servers to automatically discard any message with uu-, base64-, or
yy-encoded parts if that message is posted to a non-binary group. I
definitely didn't see the attached binary that started this tirade
because news.individual.net's admin has blocked binaries completely.
YServerMV.

The best solution is as Jacob said--put the JPEG up on your webspace,
post a URL that points to that JPEG in your Usenet article. This saves
time and bandwidth. Remember that many people read Usenet over dialup,
and many people in Europe pay for their Net access by the minute.

>>Its one thing to be a knowledge leech, its another to be an annoying
>>knowledge leech...
> Partner, I am not as kind as you. you don't really need to take the U
> out of the work to get your point made..
>
> I'll tell you this. I wouldn't want your god-damned help to fix a
> problem. You self righteous son of a bitch.

Jacob is trying to tell you things about basic nettiquette, and you
insult him? (Right, he could have been a bit more tactful, but then
again, so could *you*.) You should go read
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and follow its advice if
you plan on getting good answers from the questions you ask on Usenet.
(If you want to flame people, that's why alt.flame exists.)

> I'd rather go to a Hyundai dealer and pay $300 dollars to change my
> oil as to give you a drop of sweat off my old *****. you and the
> other son of a bitch that first raised hell. If that is not plain
> enough, I'll try and explain it again. I'll bet you are even a
> ing republican too.

I think you should sit down, drink a beer, take a Valium, and not post
again until you can manage to do so without yelling at people. OK?

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Hire me! http://crow202.dyndns.org/~mhgraham/resume/
You have me mixed up with more creative ways of being stupid. --MegaHAL

S25

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:47:11 GMT, "who" <who@what.com> wrote:

>Partner, I am not as kind as you. you don't really need to take the U out
>of the work to get your point made..
>
>I'll tell you this. I wouldn't want your god-damned help to fix a problem.
>You self righteous son of a bitch. I'd rather go to a Hyundai dealer and
>pay $300 dollars to change my oil as to give you a drop of sweat off my old
>*****. you and the other son of a bitch that first raised hell. If
>that is not plain enough, I'll try and explain it again. I'll bet you are
>even a ing republican too.
>===========================

Uh-oh! Looks like someone left the terminal open at the middle
school, again.

nothermark

On 12 Mar 2005 18:07:52 GMT, Dances With Crows
<danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:47:11 GMT, who staggered into the Black Sun and
>said:
>
>Include context when you post to Usenet. Context restored:
>
>> Jacob Suter wrote:
>>>who wrote:
>>>> You've always got some self appointed guru that has been named the
>>>> grand poopah of the group. Browsing usenet newsgroups is not an
>>>> activity that excercizes one's sense of frugality.
>
>Your last sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. What did
>you mean?
>
>>>> If I wanted to post a picture that had to do with the problem being
>>>> discussed, I would post it and tell the guru to kiss my ***.
>>>Its your god given right to clog up a usenet group with your crap
>>>because you're too lazy or ignorant to aquire some web hosting?
>
>"who", you don't seem to have ever read anything about basic Usenet
>ettiquette. Binary postings are typically not allowed on newsgroups
>that don't have "binaries" in their names. Some NNTP admins have set
>their servers to automatically discard any message with uu-, base64-, or
>yy-encoded parts if that message is posted to a non-binary group. I
>definitely didn't see the attached binary that started this tirade
>because news.individual.net's admin has blocked binaries completely.
>YServerMV.
>
>The best solution is as Jacob said--put the JPEG up on your webspace,
>post a URL that points to that JPEG in your Usenet article. This saves
>time and bandwidth. Remember that many people read Usenet over dialup,
>and many people in Europe pay for their Net access by the minute.
>
>>>Its one thing to be a knowledge leech, its another to be an annoying
>>>knowledge leech...
>> Partner, I am not as kind as you. you don't really need to take the U
>> out of the work to get your point made..
>>
>> I'll tell you this. I wouldn't want your god-damned help to fix a
>> problem. You self righteous son of a bitch.
>
>Jacob is trying to tell you things about basic nettiquette, and you
>insult him? (Right, he could have been a bit more tactful, but then
>again, so could *you*.) You should go read
>http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and follow its advice if
>you plan on getting good answers from the questions you ask on Usenet.
>(If you want to flame people, that's why alt.flame exists.)
>
>> I'd rather go to a Hyundai dealer and pay $300 dollars to change my
>> oil as to give you a drop of sweat off my old *****. you and the
>> other son of a bitch that first raised hell. If that is not plain
>> enough, I'll try and explain it again. I'll bet you are even a
>> ing republican too.
>
>I think you should sit down, drink a beer, take a Valium, and not post
>again until you can manage to do so without yelling at people. OK?


It misses the whole point that most people do not know they have web
space if they have it, from their ISP. A very large percentage of
those that know they have it choose not to learn how to use it as they
don't see a need for it.

There is a major difference between the spammers andthe occasional
jpeg to explain a problem or fix. Netminders who can't figure it out
are too far into netiquette to listen to. They need to step back and
check whether they are looking at the forrest or the trees.

a Republican