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My 2 cents and a little pond stuff
First, one must remember that a posting (to whatever newsgroup) is not
something to be engraved in stone. Oh yeah, I know that people like Google (and others) keep archives and that some folks actually store years and years worth of stuff from their favorite newsgroups, but it isn't really like being published or anything. B. Missing posts. If you wrote the post you probably have a copy, and it shouldn't be a whole lot of problem to re-post the copy if you don't see your post in a few days. If you don't have a copy (or just can't remember what you said), well, as my dear departed mother used to say: "That'll teach you." III. Advice you get on a newsgroup may not always be good advice. Some people may actually be stunned by this, but there are actual, recorded instances of replies being sarcastic, in poor taste, or just plain wrong. 4. None of the above will be addressed at all in a moderated newsgroup. I've been around Usenet for a few years, though I've never been a moderator or anything. The closest I've been to that was when I used to manage the email list for hang gliders. I'd generally forward a message from one person to everybody on the list, but some folks wanted it in "digest" form, or one email with a whole bunch of messages inside. So we did it that way too. Most of the heavy lifting was done by the folks at UVa's Academic Computing Center, but every now and then I'd have to weed out some of the messages. Mostly stuff like "I don't want to be on this list anymore," never any real spam. Anyhow, I digress. Over the years I've come to know some folks in other newsgroups, not in real life, I don't even know where a lot of them live, but I see the names and have seen these folks post over the years, some of them I've "chatted" with in email. Personally, I don't know much about Usenet (and what I do know is related to the days when we had steam-powered terminals), but I know some folks who do know. They seem to think this whole "george" thing sounds pretty legit. If I have things correct, we wait until something gets posted in news.groups.proposals and then we yap our silly heads off about it there. I've subscribed to news.groups.proposals and I know I'm waiting for the posting with virtual ants in my pants. Now for the promised pond stuff. We don't freeze real hard here in northern Florida (I'm right near where I-10 and I-75 cross), so I don't do anything for the pond. I don't have any fish or neat plants in it either, so I guess it wouldn't matter if the pond did freeze, which it doesn't. It freezes here, just not for very long and not very often. I went to grade school and junior high in San Antonio, and although I know we're north of there by latitude, it actually seems warmer here. Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA We'll cross that bridge when it rears its ugly head |
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My 2 cents and a little pond stuff
"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... Now for the promised pond stuff. We don't freeze real hard here in northern Florida (I'm right near where I-10 and I-75 cross), so I don't do anything for the pond. I don't have any fish or neat plants in it either, so I guess it wouldn't matter if the pond did freeze, which it doesn't. It freezes here, just not for very long and not very often. I went to grade school and junior high in San Antonio, and although I know we're north of there by latitude, it actually seems warmer here. ============================== We get some hard freezes here and sometimes the ponds get a covering of ice. I leave either an aerator running a bit under the surface or a small water pump to keep an opening in the ice. Both the GF and koi do well through the winter. If anything fails to make it, it's usually the small thin young fish and an occasional frog. -- KL.... Frugal ponding since 1995. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö ~~~~ }((((({* |
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