Re: F*** Off All Microsoft Users

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From: Testy (fraudbuster_at_canoemail.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:17:44 -0400

How about not posting at all?
You boys please go outside and play.

Testy
"Sendu Bala" <sendu@sendu.me.uk> wrote in message
news:2c4a45c44c.Sendu@sendu.me.uk...
> On 24 Jun, Noel Paton wrote:
>
> > [crosspost reset (you fibbed)
>
> I meant that I hadn't reduced the crossposting /more/. Ideally I would
> do no crossposting.
>
> > , since SOME people may be interested in your thought-police
> > attitudes]
>
> On comp.sys.acorn, no, they really wouldn't be:
> http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Archives/Welcome.html
>
>
> > The reason I didn't remove the cross-post in the first place was that
the
> > subject matter was relevant to the group, since it appeared to originate
> > from it.
>
> The subject matter of the posts was personal chit-chat between yourself
> and others you knew - pure noise of no relevence to the topic or any of
> the groups being posted to. No doubt that is fine on the group you
> subscribe to, but readers of the other groups are requesting that you
> don't do this. Please act considerately. If you won't take our advice,
> take the advice contained in the guide to posting you include in your
> own signature.
>
>
> The remainder of your reply doesn't seem to have anything to do with my
> post, so I'm not sure why you chose to include it, but FYI...
>
> > The reason I top-post is because I like to read from the top down,
rather
> > than stand on my head. :)
>
> http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html , but more importantly in your
> particular case, you actually put the quote beneath your signature.
> This means that in well behaving clients (
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-evaluations.html ) the quote is
> automatically stripped when replying, because signatures are
> automatically stripped.
>
>
> > I do NOT appreciate thought-police emails to my addy - if you want to
say
> > something, say it in public, where people have the opportunity to
comment
>
> Quoting from the first link I've given above, '... failure to check on
> the appropriateness of your post generally results in you being
> reminded, frequently politely, of your mistake - both publicly and
> privately'. Again, this is not something you shouldn't have expected.
> Indeed, these sorts of messages are best sent privately by email, since
> their whole purpose is to reduce the amount of noise on the newsgroup.
>
> Apologies again to everyone, especially if this gets sent back to
> csa.misc, but I'll end my part in the thread here. 

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