Re: Discussion Group Posting Protocol

If you take the advice and choose a newsreader, make sure that it also works with pop3 ['Pop free'] accounts.

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Jon



I have it on good authority that "antioch" <antioch@xxxxxxxx> said in news:ubshdpMBHHA.4212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I will make an exception - this time.
Then stop using that old/tired/clunky/slow/error prone discussion group in the web interface and learn to use newsgroups, into which, alas, your thread has fallen.
If you want info re newsgroups then ask.
Rgds
Antioch

"hkeycurrentuser" <hkeycurrentuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:698AA2FA-3B59-44B6-85F9-A188E5FBAAEC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I put this "rant" in another thread because--after having received three
nasty replies in twelve replies altogether (to other TECHNICAL posts)--I
thought it was appropriate; and I was unaware that any of you would be FORCED
to view it more than once. I receive email notification of replies to my
posts (or others I'm interested in) and I only browse ones that I WANT to
read. I don't HAVE TO read any that I'm not interested in, and I don't have
to "delete" ANY of them. If anyone else is confined to some other
arrangement that I am unaware of then I apologize for the inconvenience but,
like a web designer who can't know how a site will render on all platforms: I
don't know what you're seeing. And because "Pop" wasn't the only person to
be terse and rude with me I wanted to convey these observations to more than
just him and I thought that starting a new thread was the only way to do
this. If I was wrong, I apologize...for THAT and THAT ALONE.

Proficiency requires experience, which will inevitably entail mistakes along
the way--but it's unnecessary for discussion group users to be caustic in
"straightening out" novice subscribers. There's enough strife in the world
already.

"Antioch" wrote:


"hkeycurrentuser" <hkeycurrentuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:B7A32C46-DBA0-4874-8940-9D73F89A2D45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Gee willikers mister "Pop," sir...is that right? Golly! What's it > like
> to
> be so smart?
>
> While I'm new to discussion groups (I can usually find all the answers > I
> need in KB articles or elsewhere online) since I've been a
> programmer/analyst, hardware technician and helpline specialist for > over
> thirty years I've got more advice to offer than I do questions, and > here's
> some for you: GET SOME MANNERS!
>
> Out of a dozen replies to some half-dozen posts I've made in the last
> couple
> of days THREE of them have been rude and disrespectful, like > yours--one of
> them calling me "stupid"...and ONLY because he couldn't wrap his tiny
> brain
> around what I was saying.
>
> IF YA CAN'T SAY SUMTHIN' NICE, DON'T SAY NUTHIN' AT ALL!
>
> Since you make no apologies for your sarcasm I'm not going to > apologize
> for
> my inadvertent breach of discussion group protocol, and after reading > "How
> can I post a message to more than one Usenet newsgroup?" what I'm
> "getting"
> is that such breaches primarily inconvenience the poster himself > rather
> than
> the reader--so how difficult is it to JUST NOT READ the same post > twice in
> two different groups?
>
> I realize that since they took Star Trek and "Zena, Warrior Princess" > off
> TV
> prima donna computer geeks haven't had much besides PDAs and Bluetooth
> technology to keep them company, but really: GET A LIFE! A great > deal of
> the acerbic sniping that goes on in these "professional" discussion > groups
> is
> tantamount to the prattle exchanged by adolescents in teen chat rooms.
> GROW
> UP!
>


Why have you put this rant in another thread - you already have it in your
original thread - unless of course it is your intention to pizz everybody
off by having to read/delete all over again.
This will be my only response to you on this subject.
Antioch.






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