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Sorry about my earlier rant
I tried to post to reply to the pcgames and it did not go through so I
was upset that I had not copied and saved the data. I think that Microsoft is a great company and they have supported 98, 98SE and ME for a long time. They also released a security cd for these operating systems which was helpful. In addition, they released Virtual Machine for free. I have noticed this trend in other Microsoft newsgroups that sometimes you cannot reply to a particular post because it is deleted right away. Can anyone comment on this issue, please and thanks in advance. |
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Sorry about my earlier rant
A MS employee deletes posts that are blatantly spam or contain excessive
profanity. Porn (especially if there is a hint of child porn) is not tolerated. I've seen an occasional post that got deleted and should not have been. I think it was merely an error since on occasion, an MVP's answering post was deleted as well. In the 10 years I have posted in these groups, I have never seen a post deleted merely because it was critical of MS or Bill Gates. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Dan" wrote in message ... I tried to post to reply to the pcgames and it did not go through so I was upset that I had not copied and saved the data. I think that Microsoft is a great company and they have supported 98, 98SE and ME for a long time. They also released a security cd for these operating systems which was helpful. In addition, they released Virtual Machine for free. I have noticed this trend in other Microsoft newsgroups that sometimes you cannot reply to a particular post because it is deleted right away. Can anyone comment on this issue, please and thanks in advance. |
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Sorry about my earlier rant
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:14:03 -0600, Dan put finger
to keyboard and composed: I tried to post to reply to the pcgames and it did not go through so I was upset that I had not copied and saved the data. I think that Microsoft is a great company and they have supported 98, 98SE and ME for a long time. They also released a security cd for these operating systems which was helpful. In addition, they released Virtual Machine for free. I have noticed this trend in other Microsoft newsgroups that sometimes you cannot reply to a particular post because it is deleted right away. Can anyone comment on this issue, please and thanks in advance. I've had a post not appear on the MS news server but turn up in Google Groups. IIRC, I was responding to a non-MS security related question. I'm still baffled as to what really happened, but I understand that Usenet is not 100% reliable. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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Sorry about my earlier rant
Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:14:03 -0600, Dan put finger to keyboard and composed: I tried to post to reply to the pcgames and it did not go through so I was upset that I had not copied and saved the data. I think that Microsoft is a great company and they have supported 98, 98SE and ME for a long time. They also released a security cd for these operating systems which was helpful. In addition, they released Virtual Machine for free. I have noticed this trend in other Microsoft newsgroups that sometimes you cannot reply to a particular post because it is deleted right away. Can anyone comment on this issue, please and thanks in advance. I've had a post not appear on the MS news server but turn up in Google Groups. IIRC, I was responding to a non-MS security related question. I'm still baffled as to what really happened, but I understand that Usenet is not 100% reliable. - Franc Zabkar Thanks Franc. It is interesting that my reply to Ron is now gone but fortunately it is in your reply which I find to be puzzling. Is it possible that certain issues are censored on the Microsoft newsgroups but will still turn up in Google Groups since maybe Google Groups do not use censorship or only use it in extreme cases. Thanks in advance for any comments. |
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Sorry about my earlier rant
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:38:41 -0600, Dan put finger
to keyboard and composed: Franc Zabkar wrote: On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:14:03 -0600, Dan put finger to keyboard and composed: I tried to post to reply to the pcgames and it did not go through so I was upset that I had not copied and saved the data. I think that Microsoft is a great company and they have supported 98, 98SE and ME for a long time. They also released a security cd for these operating systems which was helpful. In addition, they released Virtual Machine for free. I have noticed this trend in other Microsoft newsgroups that sometimes you cannot reply to a particular post because it is deleted right away. Can anyone comment on this issue, please and thanks in advance. I've had a post not appear on the MS news server but turn up in Google Groups. IIRC, I was responding to a non-MS security related question. I'm still baffled as to what really happened, but I understand that Usenet is not 100% reliable. - Franc Zabkar Thanks Franc. It is interesting that my reply to Ron is now gone but fortunately it is in your reply which I find to be puzzling. Is it possible that certain issues are censored on the Microsoft newsgroups but will still turn up in Google Groups since maybe Google Groups do not use censorship or only use it in extreme cases. Thanks in advance for any comments. IME Usenet is an unreliable medium. I often see replies to posts without seeing the original post. Like you, I notice that Google seems to catch everything. Although some groups are "moderated" (the Usenet euphemism for "censored") I don't think this was necessarily what happened to your post. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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Sorry about my earlier rant
Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:38:41 -0600, Dan put finger to keyboard and composed: Franc Zabkar wrote: On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:14:03 -0600, Dan put finger to keyboard and composed: I tried to post to reply to the pcgames and it did not go through so I was upset that I had not copied and saved the data. I think that Microsoft is a great company and they have supported 98, 98SE and ME for a long time. They also released a security cd for these operating systems which was helpful. In addition, they released Virtual Machine for free. I have noticed this trend in other Microsoft newsgroups that sometimes you cannot reply to a particular post because it is deleted right away. Can anyone comment on this issue, please and thanks in advance. I've had a post not appear on the MS news server but turn up in Google Groups. IIRC, I was responding to a non-MS security related question. I'm still baffled as to what really happened, but I understand that Usenet is not 100% reliable. - Franc Zabkar Thanks Franc. It is interesting that my reply to Ron is now gone but fortunately it is in your reply which I find to be puzzling. Is it possible that certain issues are censored on the Microsoft newsgroups but will still turn up in Google Groups since maybe Google Groups do not use censorship or only use it in extreme cases. Thanks in advance for any comments. IME Usenet is an unreliable medium. I often see replies to posts without seeing the original post. Like you, I notice that Google seems to catch everything. Although some groups are "moderated" (the Usenet euphemism for "censored") I don't think this was necessarily what happened to your post. - Franc Zabkar Thanks for your thoughts, Franc and your theory makes sense. I would chalk up another point for Google. grin |
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