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no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort...
|$^) -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... (Paul L. Sears) wrote: Test use alt.test -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort...
|$^) -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... (Paul L. Sears) wrote: Test use alt.test -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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"RedForeman ©®" wrote:
use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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"RedForeman ©®" wrote:
use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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we've all done it, and I tested the usefullness of alt.test and
alt.binaries.test once... and here was the problem.... For someone who doesn't know, there are over 100k posts a month at alt.test, and even more at the binaries.... If you did a test, (in OE for example) and download the max # of headers, 1000, you'd not see your post until you retrieved another 20-25,000 more posts... because the spammers, mass mailings, marketers, warez posters, etc, are posting with broadband, and multipart files, broken down at 600kb or so, and spanning up to, but not limited to 100 or more posts... So the average joe TRYING to do it the right way, will give up before they ever see their original test post... I did it once, trying powerpost for a binaries group.... I ended up downloading over 245,000 posts before mine ever came up, and by then it had several replies like "someone just learned how to use OE, or PP" or "someone just learned where usenet is.... go get it, it's over there...." etc Nowadays, I just tell them (because 99.999995% of them are a blank post, "Test failed, your message didn't make it, but your post did... maybe you didn't attach it right??? Contact your system administrator or ISP and ask them if their web servers are working, or if there is work being done" I've actually had ppl reply back and say, "What group did this post show up in, I sent it to my brother" I'll have to see if google has that article... it was kinda "you had to be there" funny... -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... "RedForeman ©®" wrote: use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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we've all done it, and I tested the usefullness of alt.test and
alt.binaries.test once... and here was the problem.... For someone who doesn't know, there are over 100k posts a month at alt.test, and even more at the binaries.... If you did a test, (in OE for example) and download the max # of headers, 1000, you'd not see your post until you retrieved another 20-25,000 more posts... because the spammers, mass mailings, marketers, warez posters, etc, are posting with broadband, and multipart files, broken down at 600kb or so, and spanning up to, but not limited to 100 or more posts... So the average joe TRYING to do it the right way, will give up before they ever see their original test post... I did it once, trying powerpost for a binaries group.... I ended up downloading over 245,000 posts before mine ever came up, and by then it had several replies like "someone just learned how to use OE, or PP" or "someone just learned where usenet is.... go get it, it's over there...." etc Nowadays, I just tell them (because 99.999995% of them are a blank post, "Test failed, your message didn't make it, but your post did... maybe you didn't attach it right??? Contact your system administrator or ISP and ask them if their web servers are working, or if there is work being done" I've actually had ppl reply back and say, "What group did this post show up in, I sent it to my brother" I'll have to see if google has that article... it was kinda "you had to be there" funny... -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... "RedForeman ©®" wrote: use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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My apologies. The last time I used usenet, I was using telnet to a UNIX box
and tin (I think) to look at the newsgroups. That's a few years ago. I'm just finding out how to use Outlook for newsgroups. Paul Sears "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ... we've all done it, and I tested the usefullness of alt.test and (snip) I'll have to see if google has that article... it was kinda "you had to be there" funny... -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... "RedForeman ©®" wrote: use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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My apologies. The last time I used usenet, I was using telnet to a UNIX box
and tin (I think) to look at the newsgroups. That's a few years ago. I'm just finding out how to use Outlook for newsgroups. Paul Sears "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ... we've all done it, and I tested the usefullness of alt.test and (snip) I'll have to see if google has that article... it was kinda "you had to be there" funny... -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... "RedForeman ©®" wrote: use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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My apologies. The last time I used usenet, I was using telnet to a UNIX box
and tin (I think) to look at the newsgroups. That's a few years ago. I'm just finding out how to use Outlook for newsgroups. Paul Sears "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ... we've all done it, and I tested the usefullness of alt.test and (snip) I'll have to see if google has that article... it was kinda "you had to be there" funny... -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... "RedForeman ©®" wrote: use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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no apologies necessary... this is a great group, we've all got some humor...
-- RedForeman ©® "Paul L. Sears" wrote in message ... My apologies. The last time I used usenet, I was using telnet to a UNIX box and tin (I think) to look at the newsgroups. That's a few years ago. I'm just finding out how to use Outlook for newsgroups. Paul Sears "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ... we've all done it, and I tested the usefullness of alt.test and (snip) I'll have to see if google has that article... it was kinda "you had to be there" funny... -- RedForeman ©® "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... "RedForeman ©®" wrote: use alt.test no way man, that would cause actual thought processing, and effort... Hehe. This 'test' problem I chalk up to simple ignorance rather than laziness. When one hits Usenet for the first time, one doesn't know about that sort of thing. I certainly didn't, and dumped a couple of inappropriate test messages out too. Luckily, someone corrected me. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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