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From: Tom Willett on 5 May 2010 15:26 : : : What *will* you do with all that extra time, Peter? ;-) He'll be able to spend more time having you committed.
From: ~BD~ on 5 May 2010 15:52 Tom Willett wrote: > : > : > : What *will* you do with all that extra time, Peter? ;-) > > He'll be able to spend more time having you committed. > > *plonk*
From: "FromTheRafters" erratic on 5 May 2010 18:09 "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message news:MPG.264b3fd75a6c7dd598a32f(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > In article <0212B956-BEC3-42D5-B423-36BA244B7A86(a)microsoft.com>, hot- > text(a)hotmail.com says... >> in time MS will move to Forums provide a healthy community >> environment with >> less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and a PV Chat >> for >> community discussions groups Too! >> > > From all I've seen of the forums, they are harder to use, contain less > users, have a terrible interface... > > Usenet has been plagued by trolls and spammers for decades, in fact, I > think the first troll started about 4 years after Usenet went public, > if > I can remember back that far. Trolls are easy to deal with, it's the > idiots that use Usenet like they are using email and that use web > interfaces to Usenet that cause the most problems. I agree! NNTP is difficult to police, "Big Brother" is trying to exert control over users and wants NNTP to disappear. :-( Long live NNTP!!
From: David H. Lipman on 5 May 2010 18:47 From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic @nomail.afraid.org> | "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message | news:MPG.264b3fd75a6c7dd598a32f(a)us.news.astraweb.com... >> In article <0212B956-BEC3-42D5-B423-36BA244B7A86(a)microsoft.com>, hot- >> text(a)hotmail.com says... >>> in time MS will move to Forums provide a healthy community >>> environment with >>> less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and a PV Chat >>> for >>> community discussions groups Too! >> From all I've seen of the forums, they are harder to use, contain less >> users, have a terrible interface... >> Usenet has been plagued by trolls and spammers for decades, in fact, I >> think the first troll started about 4 years after Usenet went public, >> if >> I can remember back that far. Trolls are easy to deal with, it's the >> idiots that use Usenet like they are using email and that use web >> interfaces to Usenet that cause the most problems. | I agree! | NNTP is difficult to police, "Big Brother" is trying to exert control | over users and wants NNTP to disappear. :-( | Long live NNTP!! Like NY AG Andy Cuomo. He's the reason why *many* US ISPs have dropped providing Usenet. Too much CP in the binaries. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: "FromTheRafters" erratic on 5 May 2010 19:13
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message news:eelviTK7KHA.2220(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic @nomail.afraid.org> > > | "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message > | news:MPG.264b3fd75a6c7dd598a32f(a)us.news.astraweb.com... >>> In article <0212B956-BEC3-42D5-B423-36BA244B7A86(a)microsoft.com>, >>> hot- >>> text(a)hotmail.com says... >>>> in time MS will move to Forums provide a healthy community >>>> environment with >>>> less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and a PV >>>> Chat >>>> for >>>> community discussions groups Too! > > >>> From all I've seen of the forums, they are harder to use, contain >>> less >>> users, have a terrible interface... > >>> Usenet has been plagued by trolls and spammers for decades, in fact, >>> I >>> think the first troll started about 4 years after Usenet went >>> public, >>> if >>> I can remember back that far. Trolls are easy to deal with, it's the >>> idiots that use Usenet like they are using email and that use web >>> interfaces to Usenet that cause the most problems. > > | I agree! > > | NNTP is difficult to police, "Big Brother" is trying to exert > control > | over users and wants NNTP to disappear. :-( > > | Long live NNTP!! > > Like NY AG Andy Cuomo. > > He's the reason why *many* US ISPs have dropped providing Usenet. > > Too much CP in the binaries. Can't say that I'd miss the binaries much if that became an equitable halfway measure. I like the discussion aspect (especially unmoderated) and the fact that it *isn't* (or at least *wasn't*) the web. |