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William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> This message was posted on Usenet, NOT JLAforums, & on Sun, 10 Sep 2006
> 13:44:41 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Sunday 10 September 2006 13:28 \__
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>>> This message was posted on Usenet, NOT JLAforums, & on Sun, 10 Sep 2006
>>> 02:58:20 +0200, Roy Culley wrote:
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>>> <snip>
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>>>>> He is also, by virtue of the sheer number of posts, driving
>>>>> informative messages right off the news servers.
>>>>
>>>> Utter unsubstantiated bullshit.
>>>
>>> I wonder, if this "...driving informative messages right off the news
>>> servers." is referring to the tolls crap (maybe "informative" to them,
>>> but crap to us) being drowned by Roy S's newsposts. And is this another
>>> way of flatfarce saying that the trolls posts are being shunted off the
>>> newsservers.. GREAT! Keep it going Roy! :-)
>>
>> They lie, yet again.
>
> There's a surprise. ;-)
>
>> Gary does not killfile news items and neither does Erik.
>
> Because they'd sooner whine.
They're becoming more of the landscape here, now. Several [News]
threads have made it into Roy C's top threads list - how things change.
>
>> They have proven it before. And yet, if I dare to have a typo in the
>> tag, they loudly nag. When that line of attack fails, they mention
>> server retention. But newsgroups servers retain by the post, not by the
>> thread. So the effect of my news posting is minute. But that's not what
>> they would have you believe. Other lies, off the top of my head: no
>> followups as an implication of no interest, Windows/MS-related being
>> utterly irrelevant, etc.
Server retention is one of the daftest arguments I've heard; we get
those guys posting several hundred messages each a month, but they
complain about server retention... if they were really worried about
that, they could stop posting :-)
The storage required for text-only groups is miniscule compared with
the binaries groups, too.
>>
>> Seems as though I'll be getting in contact with some viruses (Windows)
>> next week. My activity in this newsgroup will be affected. Inevitably,
>> not all problems can be resolved remotely. No worries. I'll loosen that
>> Windows chastity belt. it's been accumulating dust for many months.
>
> Good luck with the "Freshers", Roy. :-)
Ah, yes, it's that time of the year, isn't it?
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>>>>> [snip]
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