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Goodbye with mixed feelings
Once upon a time on usenet Brooklyn1 wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. My decision is to not. I will probably stop reading here within a month when my old PC gets retired. Most will not care which is fine. To those who have shared their knowledge, experience and goodwill, thanks and fare thee well. May your seed always germinate, your tomatoes be tasty and your flowers waft their perfume over your life. For someone who claims to be subsribed for as long as you claim you are demonstating an exceptionately shallow intellect... usenet is no different now from how it's always been. All anyone can hope to get from any Newsgroup is as much as they contribute. Perhaps you are simply too full of yourself because over the years you've contributed very little, nothing meaningful other than your self absorbed claptrap. Adios and don't let the door hit your ignorant ass. He may well post less than you but quantiity is certainly no substitute for quality. I always read Davids post entirely but with 95% of yours I don't persevere past the first line. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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Once upon a time on usenet Brooklyn1 wrote:
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:16:22 -0600, adule wrote: On 11/15/2015 4:58 PM, SG1 wrote: "adule" wrote in message ... On 11/13/2015 5:46 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: I have been using usenet for decades now ...snip...] I've been on usenet for many years. I usually post in the group alt.narcissists.text. BTW, are you leaving because of something I said? ADule It is what you did not say... I knew that. Not to worry, people leave Newsgroups, and have to announce it yet, because they have very thin skin... usenet is much better off without them. As it's always been - the wrong ones leave. What you call thin skin I call not being an arsehole or wanting to deal with them. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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Once upon a time on usenet SG1 wrote:
"Fran Farmer" wrote in message ... On 16/11/2015 9:58 AM, SG1 wrote: It is what you did not say... Hello SG1! Good to see you again :-))) Unlike many I post only when I have something to say. Amen! -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) (Oh the irony!) |
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Once upon a time on usenet Fran Farmer wrote:
On 17/11/2015 7:13 AM, Drew Lawson wrote: I still think it is a medium superior to web forums, and for exactly the same reasons that Facebook and such don't like it -- no one owns Usenet. Agreed. FB is a PITA. I'm with you there. Signed up years ago at the insistance of overseas family who prefer to post there than write emails and now only visit once a month or less for maybe five minutes just to see who's hatched, been matched or dispatched. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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On 11/22/2015 8:09 PM, ~misfit~ wrote:
Once upon a time on usenet Fran Farmer wrote: On 17/11/2015 7:13 AM, Drew Lawson wrote: I still think it is a medium superior to web forums, and for exactly the same reasons that Facebook and such don't like it -- no one owns Usenet. Agreed. FB is a PITA. I'm with you there. Signed up years ago at the insistance of overseas family who prefer to post there than write emails and now only visit once a month or less for maybe five minutes just to see who's hatched, been matched or dispatched. Yeah, I have kids and grands after me to sign up for Facebook but it isn't going to happen. I ride a gardening group that is mastered out of the U of Kentucky, been on it since around 1990. Otherwise UseNet for me is rec.food.preserving, very low volume nowadays, and rec.gardens.edible, which until lately, has also been low volume. Used to run a gardening group on Yahoo Groups but people just kept leaving it so I left too. I think a large part of the internet population has no idea what gardening and talking about gardening is all about. Supposed to be a light freeze tomorrow morning so we picked sweet chiles and eggplant, probably for the last time this winter. Winter garden is coming along nicely, looks like the broccoli is starting make heads and the cabbage is heading. Lots of salad mix and Swiss chard out there, that was our dinner tonight. We're trying to eat better and lighter at dinner time. |
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Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... |
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On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:02:08 +1300, "~misfit~"
wrote: Once upon a time on usenet SG1 wrote: "Fran Farmer" wrote in message ... On 16/11/2015 9:58 AM, SG1 wrote: Hello SG1! Good to see you again :-))) Unlike many I post only when I have something to say. Amen! I'll now forever think of Mr Ed when I think of SG1. |
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"Jeßus" wrote in message ... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:02:08 +1300, "~misfit~" wrote: Once upon a time on usenet SG1 wrote: "Fran Farmer" wrote in message ... On 16/11/2015 9:58 AM, SG1 wrote: Hello SG1! Good to see you again :-))) Unlike many I post only when I have something to say. Amen! I'll now forever think of Mr Ed when I think of SG1. No horsing around or I will nag U. |
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Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:22:55 +1000, "SG1" wrote:
"Jeßus" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:02:08 +1300, "~misfit~" wrote: Once upon a time on usenet SG1 wrote: "Fran Farmer" wrote in message ... On 16/11/2015 9:58 AM, SG1 wrote: Hello SG1! Good to see you again :-))) Unlike many I post only when I have something to say. Amen! I'll now forever think of Mr Ed when I think of SG1. No horsing around or I will nag U. You've been taking lessons from my ex? |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 16:23:18 -0500, Brooklyn1
wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 07:36:10 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:46:37 +1100, "David Hare-Scott" wrote: I have been using usenet for decades now and regularly on these two NGs for about 12 years as far as I recall. I have learned much and I hope sometimes taught something useful. At times it has been real fun and I felt a comradeship with people who I will never meet in the flesh. There has always been some noise, a background of posts that were a waste of time and some posters who were always or nearly always a waste of time. On the whole it was worthwhile. But usenet is dying. The number of posters reduces every year. It seems there are too few good ones left to maintain critical mass. There has always been the ignorant the foolish and the arrogant but now the proportion has grown in the population and so the signal to noise ratio has declined. For those who say you can always plonk the idiots and the terminally toxic, the problem is by the time you do that there isn't much left. I have been reading and posting less and less. Aside from the general decline in numbers the core problem is those who want to abuse the system for fun or profit. Spammers and the selfish are with us in every medium and you need to cope with that somehow. In this respect interfaces where users must be identified and can be banned by administrators for either reason have an advantage but clearly this winnowing is never completely effective. Nonetheless most NGs survived a long time without resorting to moderation - but no more. Smaller groups (eg aus.gardens) have shrunk to the point where they are pretty much useless and the energy isn't there to amalgamate or reorganise to groups with sufficient mass to continue. The medium has had its day, Sadly. The sad, the sick, the crazy and the selfish are sometimes amusing but often just annoying and time wasting. Their common characteristic is they have no appreciation of their own behaviour. In real life there are consequences to bad behaviour in society, nobody will talk to you if you go far enough. The medium to some extent enables the socially ill by providing real-life anonymity, allowing nymshifting and seeming like people are not actually real, they are just streams of electrons out in the ether. If you are sick enough to spend all your efforts getting attention by being a turd then usenet will make it possible. If (however well meaning you may be) you feel it your bounden duty to jam your politics, religion or wackiness down the throats of an international audience then you can do it here. If you are 15 years old (in years or attitude) you can perversely get an ego massage wasting the time of good people who just want to talk about plants. It no longer seems possible to agree to disagree, you must have the last word and go over the same ground again and again. The dead horse is no longer getting beaten but a hole in the ground where the dust of the horse used to be must be assailed daily. The extremists of the left and right of US politics are both blind the fact that around the world NOBODY ****ING CARES about your sectarian poison. You are both safe and warm in your respective blankets ( red and blue to be sure) of national, social and moral insularity - a plaque on both your houses. I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. My decision is to not. I will probably stop reading here within a month when my old PC gets retired. Most will not care which is fine. To those who have shared their knowledge, experience and goodwill, thanks and fare thee well. May your seed always germinate, your tomatoes be tasty and your flowers waft their perfume over your life. That's one of the more cogent comments on the current situation that I've seen. I'm rapidly losing interest as well, there's very few groups with posters that are worth reading or communicating with any more. Of course, this has been going on for years now, but lately... for me Usenet hasn't never been at such a low point as it is right now. When you think about it, there isn't a better venue on the Internet for those purely into conflict, trolling or just plain arguing. So as long time genuine posters bail, the signal to noise ratio has deteriorated. And any new blood finding their way onto Usenet is coming from technically inept google group users... enough said there. It ain't looking terribly good at this stage. That's because most of the dimwitted/non contributers are now facebooking. I've always found it ironic when some say they have learned here but those are the information takers who rarely if ever have contributed. They flap their gums about gardening but seem to have nothing to contribute, not even a single photo of their garden. LOL Sheldon, you say the same thing in rfc... Perhaps it's best they depart and create a vaccuum that will suck in real gardeners, who talk less but demonstrate more. Imagine, someone types over a thousand words about why they are leaving because it's other's fault but hasn't spent nearly that much effort in meaningful contributions. The truth is facebooking requires much of ones time, facebookers don't have time for usenet... facebookers really enjoy that inane soap opera. I spent a day looking around at facebook, all BSing morons out lying each other. I'm currently using a friend's Faecebook account to sell a car, it's even worse now than when I last looked a year ago. |
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Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... |
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote:
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. |
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On 12/13/2015 12:22 AM, Je�us wrote:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) I only use IMDB for research and generally don't have to sign in. I like it better for that than I do Wicki. I've had an Amazon Prime account for many years, seldom ever have a problem other than the USPS losing shipped items. But, then, they lose my prescription drugs on a regular basis. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:15:29 -0600, George Shirley
wrote: On 12/13/2015 12:22 AM, Je?us wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) I only use IMDB for research and generally don't have to sign in. Same here, a bit of research and that's about it. I like it better for that than I do Wicki. I've had an Amazon Prime account for many years, seldom ever have a problem other than the USPS losing shipped items. But, then, they lose my prescription drugs on a regular basis. I'm in Australia and have never bought pharmaceuticals online. I seldom buy much from Amazon these days, but used to buy a lot of music and DVDs from there 15 years ago. Can't recall losing any shipments from Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter, come to think of it). Better go and touch some wood, now that I've said that... |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On 12/15/2015 10:55 PM, Je�us wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:15:29 -0600, George Shirley wrote: On 12/13/2015 12:22 AM, Je?us wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) I only use IMDB for research and generally don't have to sign in. Same here, a bit of research and that's about it. I like it better for that than I do Wicki. I've had an Amazon Prime account for many years, seldom ever have a problem other than the USPS losing shipped items. But, then, they lose my prescription drugs on a regular basis. I'm in Australia and have never bought pharmaceuticals online. I seldom buy much from Amazon these days, but used to buy a lot of music and DVDs from there 15 years ago. Can't recall losing any shipments from Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter, come to think of it). Better go and touch some wood, now that I've said that... My Medicare provider is ten miles away, generally the meds they send me make it here. Insulin is delivered by courier and I have to sign for it. Kelsey-Seybold Medicare Advantage Plan is very good at what they do. The only five star Medicare Plan in the US of A. The problem with the U.S. Postal Service is that it is heavily unionized and the post masters are afraid of the union. I have lived in other states where the post masters do a good job but the ones here in Harris County, Texas are a bunch of fraidy cats. I generally have to call the post mistress about once every three or four months looking for my mail that I knew was coming. We have learned to ship Christmas presents to relatives in other states by United Parcel Service, UPS does a good job of getting things where they're supposed to be. If we ship them USPS they seem to disappear easily. I suspect there are a lot of postal carriers that have sticky fingers. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:10:17 -0600, George Shirley
wrote: On 12/15/2015 10:55 PM, Je?us wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:15:29 -0600, George Shirley wrote: On 12/13/2015 12:22 AM, Je?us wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) I only use IMDB for research and generally don't have to sign in. Same here, a bit of research and that's about it. I like it better for that than I do Wicki. I've had an Amazon Prime account for many years, seldom ever have a problem other than the USPS losing shipped items. But, then, they lose my prescription drugs on a regular basis. I'm in Australia and have never bought pharmaceuticals online. I seldom buy much from Amazon these days, but used to buy a lot of music and DVDs from there 15 years ago. Can't recall losing any shipments from Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter, come to think of it). Better go and touch some wood, now that I've said that... My Medicare provider is ten miles away, generally the meds they send me make it here. Insulin is delivered by courier and I have to sign for it. Kelsey-Seybold Medicare Advantage Plan is very good at what they do. The only five star Medicare Plan in the US of A. The problem with the U.S. Postal Service is that it is heavily unionized and the post masters are afraid of the union. I have lived in other states where the post masters do a good job but the ones here in Harris County, Texas are a bunch of fraidy cats. I generally have to call the post mistress about once every three or four months looking for my mail that I knew was coming. We have learned to ship Christmas presents to relatives in other states by United Parcel Service, UPS does a good job of getting things where they're supposed to be. If we ship them USPS they seem to disappear easily. I suspect there are a lot of postal carriers that have sticky fingers. Sheesh. In Australia there is only one real carrier of mail, that being Australia Post, which is government owned but a large portion of the business is run by contractors. Aus Post is in it's death throes and will be privatised soon. I can only imagine the problems that will bring... Aus Post is far from perfect but I can honestly say I cannot recall a missing letter or parcel from them in more than 30 years. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On 12/20/2015 2:06 PM, Je�us wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:10:17 -0600, George Shirley wrote: On 12/15/2015 10:55 PM, Je?us wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:15:29 -0600, George Shirley wrote: On 12/13/2015 12:22 AM, Je?us wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) I only use IMDB for research and generally don't have to sign in. Same here, a bit of research and that's about it. I like it better for that than I do Wicki. I've had an Amazon Prime account for many years, seldom ever have a problem other than the USPS losing shipped items. But, then, they lose my prescription drugs on a regular basis. I'm in Australia and have never bought pharmaceuticals online. I seldom buy much from Amazon these days, but used to buy a lot of music and DVDs from there 15 years ago. Can't recall losing any shipments from Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter, come to think of it). Better go and touch some wood, now that I've said that... My Medicare provider is ten miles away, generally the meds they send me make it here. Insulin is delivered by courier and I have to sign for it. Kelsey-Seybold Medicare Advantage Plan is very good at what they do. The only five star Medicare Plan in the US of A. The problem with the U.S. Postal Service is that it is heavily unionized and the post masters are afraid of the union. I have lived in other states where the post masters do a good job but the ones here in Harris County, Texas are a bunch of fraidy cats. I generally have to call the post mistress about once every three or four months looking for my mail that I knew was coming. We have learned to ship Christmas presents to relatives in other states by United Parcel Service, UPS does a good job of getting things where they're supposed to be. If we ship them USPS they seem to disappear easily. I suspect there are a lot of postal carriers that have sticky fingers. Sheesh. In Australia there is only one real carrier of mail, that being Australia Post, which is government owned but a large portion of the business is run by contractors. Aus Post is in it's death throes and will be privatised soon. I can only imagine the problems that will bring... Aus Post is far from perfect but I can honestly say I cannot recall a missing letter or parcel from them in more than 30 years. I've lived in five states of the US and two foreign countries, only have had a problem with mail here in Harris County, Texas. I can only hope that the gubmint will sell USPS to someone who knows what they're doing. Have been to Australia a couple of times when I was flight crew in the Navy back in late fifties. Some really good beer and pretty women is about all I can remember except for the accent. G The Aussies I met thought I spoke funny too. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:46:30 -0600, George Shirley
wrote: On 12/20/2015 2:06 PM, Je?us wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:10:17 -0600, George Shirley wrote: On 12/15/2015 10:55 PM, Je?us wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:15:29 -0600, George Shirley wrote: On 12/13/2015 12:22 AM, Je?us wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:45:16 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:14:22 +1100, Jeßus wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:13:57 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:28:59 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: IMDB.com has an ignore list, which is pretty much the same except you see a spot in the thread that says "this post ignored" or words to that effect. IMDB is now another site that wants either your credit card or phone details to sign up, as I discovered the other day. No thanks... If you've ever bought anything off of Amazon then they already have that information. Does IMDB have account details from Amazon? That sounds rather unethical... Yes, Amazon owns IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database I would not expect them to share personal account details between the two though. You can sign in using an amazon account, a gmail account, a facebook account, or an account specific to IMDB. I would be very surprised if there was any internal isolation between the different kinds of accounts. Yes, you're most likley right about that. Presumably they have some sort of disclosure somewhere (not that I am all *that* concerned). In future I'll use my Amazon login details - not that I really need to login very often as I rarely post there. Thanks very much for the great info :) I only use IMDB for research and generally don't have to sign in. Same here, a bit of research and that's about it. I like it better for that than I do Wicki. I've had an Amazon Prime account for many years, seldom ever have a problem other than the USPS losing shipped items. But, then, they lose my prescription drugs on a regular basis. I'm in Australia and have never bought pharmaceuticals online. I seldom buy much from Amazon these days, but used to buy a lot of music and DVDs from there 15 years ago. Can't recall losing any shipments from Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter, come to think of it). Better go and touch some wood, now that I've said that... My Medicare provider is ten miles away, generally the meds they send me make it here. Insulin is delivered by courier and I have to sign for it. Kelsey-Seybold Medicare Advantage Plan is very good at what they do. The only five star Medicare Plan in the US of A. The problem with the U.S. Postal Service is that it is heavily unionized and the post masters are afraid of the union. I have lived in other states where the post masters do a good job but the ones here in Harris County, Texas are a bunch of fraidy cats. I generally have to call the post mistress about once every three or four months looking for my mail that I knew was coming. We have learned to ship Christmas presents to relatives in other states by United Parcel Service, UPS does a good job of getting things where they're supposed to be. If we ship them USPS they seem to disappear easily. I suspect there are a lot of postal carriers that have sticky fingers. Sheesh. In Australia there is only one real carrier of mail, that being Australia Post, which is government owned but a large portion of the business is run by contractors. Aus Post is in it's death throes and will be privatised soon. I can only imagine the problems that will bring... Aus Post is far from perfect but I can honestly say I cannot recall a missing letter or parcel from them in more than 30 years. I've lived in five states of the US and two foreign countries, only have had a problem with mail here in Harris County, Texas. I can only hope that the gubmint will sell USPS to someone who knows what they're doing. Have been to Australia a couple of times when I was flight crew in the Navy back in late fifties. Some really good beer and pretty women is about all I can remember except for the accent. G The Aussies I met thought I spoke funny too. It's a very different place now, but we still talk funny ;) Have a great time over xmas/new years. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
Dan Espen wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" writes: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. As other posters have already mentioned, there are plenty of free Usenet clients. I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs). There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client, but it will get you here. Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never disappoint. If you find something online that you like better, please come back and tell us about it. Sorry, that kill files are all that we have. I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots. I very rarely use killfiles, even spammers are sometimes amusing, the only ones I use killfiles on are those with interminable pages of muslim rubbish. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:30:33 +1100, F Murtz
wrote: Dan Espen wrote: "David Hare-Scott" writes: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. As other posters have already mentioned, there are plenty of free Usenet clients. I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs). There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client, but it will get you here. Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never disappoint. If you find something online that you like better, please come back and tell us about it. Sorry, that kill files are all that we have. I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots. I very rarely use killfiles, even spammers are sometimes amusing, the only ones I use killfiles on are those with interminable pages of muslim rubbish. I've been using mine more and more in the past year, previously it was limited to serial spammers/kooks but it almost seems like the less ppl on Usenet over time, the greater the proportion of nutcases, trolls and google spammers. |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
Once upon a time on usenet Jeßus wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:30:33 +1100, F Murtz wrote: Dan Espen wrote: "David Hare-Scott" writes: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. As other posters have already mentioned, there are plenty of free Usenet clients. I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs). There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client, but it will get you here. Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never disappoint. If you find something online that you like better, please come back and tell us about it. Sorry, that kill files are all that we have. I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots. I very rarely use killfiles, even spammers are sometimes amusing, the only ones I use killfiles on are those with interminable pages of muslim rubbish. I've been using mine more and more in the past year, previously it was limited to serial spammers/kooks but it almost seems like the less ppl on Usenet over time, the greater the proportion of nutcases, trolls and google spammers. Yep. IMO the other people likely left *because* of the arseholes. Ergo higher arsehole : decent person ratio. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:43:09 +1300, "~misfit~"
wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Jeßus wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:30:33 +1100, F Murtz wrote: Dan Espen wrote: "David Hare-Scott" writes: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. As other posters have already mentioned, there are plenty of free Usenet clients. I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs). There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client, but it will get you here. Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never disappoint. If you find something online that you like better, please come back and tell us about it. Sorry, that kill files are all that we have. I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots. I very rarely use killfiles, even spammers are sometimes amusing, the only ones I use killfiles on are those with interminable pages of muslim rubbish. I've been using mine more and more in the past year, previously it was limited to serial spammers/kooks but it almost seems like the less ppl on Usenet over time, the greater the proportion of nutcases, trolls and google spammers. Yep. IMO the other people likely left *because* of the arseholes. Ergo higher arsehole : decent person ratio. A lot of ppl also seemed to have moved to 'social media' in place of Usenet. To me, that's not even remotely a replacement for Usenet. I like the fact that Usenet is lean and mean, no window dressing or bloat... and no moderation*. And no one controls it. *yes, I know there are moderated groups... but who uses them? |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
Once upon a time on usenet Jeßus wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:43:09 +1300, "~misfit~" wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Jeßus wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:30:33 +1100, F Murtz wrote: Dan Espen wrote: "David Hare-Scott" writes: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. As other posters have already mentioned, there are plenty of free Usenet clients. I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs). There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client, but it will get you here. Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never disappoint. If you find something online that you like better, please come back and tell us about it. Sorry, that kill files are all that we have. I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots. I very rarely use killfiles, even spammers are sometimes amusing, the only ones I use killfiles on are those with interminable pages of muslim rubbish. I've been using mine more and more in the past year, previously it was limited to serial spammers/kooks but it almost seems like the less ppl on Usenet over time, the greater the proportion of nutcases, trolls and google spammers. Yep. IMO the other people likely left *because* of the arseholes. Ergo higher arsehole : decent person ratio. A lot of ppl also seemed to have moved to 'social media' in place of Usenet. To me, that's not even remotely a replacement for Usenet. I like the fact that Usenet is lean and mean, no window dressing or bloat... and no moderation*. And no one controls it. *yes, I know there are moderated groups... but who uses them? Agree on all fronts. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
Goodbye with mixed feelings
Jeßus wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:43:09 +1300, "~misfit~" wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Jeßus wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:30:33 +1100, F Murtz wrote: Dan Espen wrote: "David Hare-Scott" writes: I have just got a new machine that doesn't natively come with a news client so I am faced with buying and setting one up on it, or not. As other posters have already mentioned, there are plenty of free Usenet clients. I'm using GNUS, (part of Emacs). There's even "Google Groups". Not really a Usenet client, but it will get you here. Anyway, I've always looked forward to your posts and you never disappoint. If you find something online that you like better, please come back and tell us about it. Sorry, that kill files are all that we have. I'm sure the guys at Bell Labs that dreamed this up never anticipated the spammers and trolls, or the idiots. I very rarely use killfiles, even spammers are sometimes amusing, the only ones I use killfiles on are those with interminable pages of muslim rubbish. I've been using mine more and more in the past year, previously it was limited to serial spammers/kooks but it almost seems like the less ppl on Usenet over time, the greater the proportion of nutcases, trolls and google spammers. Yep. IMO the other people likely left *because* of the arseholes. Ergo higher arsehole : decent person ratio. A lot of ppl also seemed to have moved to 'social media' in place of Usenet. To me, that's not even remotely a replacement for Usenet. I like the fact that Usenet is lean and mean, no window dressing or bloat... and no moderation*. And no one controls it. *yes, I know there are moderated groups... but who uses them? Pommes and other countries do,we do not look at uk.legal.moderated, lots of users and has some professional legal posters, we tried aus.legal.moderated and it flopped. Suppose it could be part explained by size of population. |
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