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  #21  
Old May 10th 10, 02:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_4_]
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

He wouldn't dare vbg

--
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http://crossstitcher.webs.com/

"Heather" wrote in message
...

Are you calling our Joanie a *tart*??? Gasp!!

Figgeroni

"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote in
message ...
I think you must mean 'pop toaster'. But really the correct term is 'pop
tart'.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Full-quoter and top-poaster Joan Archer wrote:

So that's why 98 Guy can't leave his newsgroup, hope he's got a
big enough hanky when the time comes and he loses it g

I guess you don't realize that the microsoft.public set of newsgroups
will continue on the world-wide usenet - even after microsoft shuts down
it's NNTP server.


Which isn't quite the same as 'acid queen'. But then you never did acid,
did you.

Walter Konkrite



  #22  
Old May 10th 10, 02:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_4_]
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Can you remember what jam it is they put in those I can't g

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Joan Archer
http://crossstitcher.webs.com/

"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote in message
...
I think you must mean 'pop toaster'. But really the correct term is 'pop
tart'.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Full-quoter and top-poaster Joan Archer wrote:

So that's why 98 Guy can't leave his newsgroup, hope he's got a
big enough hanky when the time comes and he loses it g


I guess you don't realize that the microsoft.public set of newsgroups
will continue on the world-wide usenet - even after microsoft shuts down
it's NNTP server.


Which isn't quite the same as 'acid queen'. But then you never did acid,
did you.

Walter Konkrite


  #23  
Old May 10th 10, 02:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
98 Guy
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Noel Paton wrote:

I suggest that you learn to read lawyerese


I suggest you quote specific statements that I make and refute
them directly, instead of sweeping them under the carpet.


- which is EXACTLY what you just did.


But you did it first. It was you that didn't respond to the material
and points that I made in my previous post.

And I did not sweep your statements under the carpet:

There is a world of difference between "made it available to
anyone on the Usenet." and actually being 'part of Usenet'.


The continuance of discussing that point is, well, pointless, because
it's a matter of opinion how to interpret Microsoft's wording and
intention, and discussing that takes away from the more relavent points
such as whether or not Microsoft was operating a true NNTP server, and
if posts made to that server were being "leeched" by usenet at large.
That is the point that you don't want to discuss, because I've posted
overwhelming evidence that your point of view or your understanding is
wrong.

I only have so much breath to waste on morons - you just exhausted
it for a month or two.


If you choose to surrender this argument over to me, that's ok, I
understand. It's hard to argue when you've been proven wrong.

I will again post your thesis, and my counter-argument which you have
not responded to:

To be part of Usenet, it would have had to acknowledged the UseNet
protocols - which it never has done, AFAIK. It would also have
needed to host other groups, which it certainly never has done.


In order for posts made via the Microsoft servers to appear on other
news servers world-wide, Microsoft *must* arrange for peering with other
servers. If such an arrangement was not in place, then I would not be
able to see your post on the NNTP server I use (aioe.org).

And you would not be able to see my reply to you, the one you are
reading right now, unless the peering was bi-directional. And none of
this could happen unless microsoft operated their own NNTP server, that
fully impliments usenet NNTP message transport protocals. Further more,
you can use any newsreader to access microsoft's nntp server directly,
to read and post messages.

It would also have needed to host other groups, which it certainly
never has done.


Anyone operating a usenet server can choose which newsgroups he will
carry on his server. It's not uncommon for smaller operators to not
carry the binary groups, for example, because of the bandwidth those
groups consume, and the hard drive space needed for decent retention.
  #24  
Old May 10th 10, 02:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
HRH The Example John Smith
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Since I'm about to go to Sainsburys and Tescos (it seems) I expect I'll
check it out (assuming they still do them. And I remember).

Raskasivyitch!

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Can you remember what jam it is they put in those I can't g

--
Joan Archer
http://crossstitcher.webs.com/

"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote in
message ...
I think you must mean 'pop toaster'. But really the correct term is 'pop
tart'.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Full-quoter and top-poaster Joan Archer wrote:

So that's why 98 Guy can't leave his newsgroup, hope he's got a
big enough hanky when the time comes and he loses it g

I guess you don't realize that the microsoft.public set of newsgroups
will continue on the world-wide usenet - even after microsoft shuts down
it's NNTP server.


Which isn't quite the same as 'acid queen'. But then you never did acid,
did you.

Walter Konkrite


  #25  
Old May 10th 10, 08:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Heather[_3_]
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Posts: 58
Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Plastic jam.......(eg)

Hey......just spent Friday night in Emergency for no damn good reason. And
sleeping on a gurney sux. But the doctors were amazingly good.

I totally baffled these docs and I finally figured it out by googling. (2
days later).......it was, ta da.......a particular flavour of Maalox, not
internal bleeding. I shall leave you to figure out what the symptoms were,
seeing as this is a *family news group*, lol.

Figgs



"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Can you remember what jam it is they put in those I can't g

--
Joan Archer
http://crossstitcher.webs.com/

"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote in
message ...
I think you must mean 'pop toaster'. But really the correct term is 'pop
tart'.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Full-quoter and top-poaster Joan Archer wrote:

So that's why 98 Guy can't leave his newsgroup, hope he's got a
big enough hanky when the time comes and he loses it g

I guess you don't realize that the microsoft.public set of newsgroups
will continue on the world-wide usenet - even after microsoft shuts down
it's NNTP server.


Which isn't quite the same as 'acid queen'. But then you never did acid,
did you.

Walter Konkrite




  #26  
Old May 10th 10, 08:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
HRH The Example John Smith
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Posts: 16
Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

So, is this Life imitating Art, or something?

Then we could segue into Pop Art and start playing with Warhol (poss. with
the assistance of the Thin White Streak or whatever he is this decade).

Anyway I forgot to check them out, but I'll take this as answered.

Hiram Thunderbox



"Heather" wrote in message
...
Plastic jam.......(eg)

Hey......just spent Friday night in Emergency for no damn good reason.
And sleeping on a gurney sux. But the doctors were amazingly good.

I totally baffled these docs and I finally figured it out by googling. (2
days later).......it was, ta da.......a particular flavour of Maalox, not
internal bleeding. I shall leave you to figure out what the symptoms
were, seeing as this is a *family news group*, lol.

Figgs



"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Can you remember what jam it is they put in those I can't g

--
Joan Archer
http://crossstitcher.webs.com/

"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote in
message ...
I think you must mean 'pop toaster'. But really the correct term is 'pop
tart'.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Full-quoter and top-poaster Joan Archer wrote:

So that's why 98 Guy can't leave his newsgroup, hope he's got a
big enough hanky when the time comes and he loses it g

I guess you don't realize that the microsoft.public set of newsgroups
will continue on the world-wide usenet - even after microsoft shuts
down
it's NNTP server.

Which isn't quite the same as 'acid queen'. But then you never did acid,
did you.

Walter Konkrite




  #27  
Old May 10th 10, 09:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Noel Paton[_3_]
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote in message
...
You know what they say Figgs 'if the cap fits, pop it in the toaster and
see if it flys!'



You've been eating too many pop-tarts again!
g

--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk

  #28  
Old May 10th 10, 10:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
HRH The Example John Smith
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Posts: 16
Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Ever hear of Jed Connors?

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
wrote:

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.


Ah hah!

You ME lusers!

Microsoft did *not* post a similar message in win98.gen_discussion.

You people will soon be toast!

Long live Windows 98.

  #29  
Old May 11th 10, 09:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Corday[_3_]
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Jed's asylum now limits computer use to five minutes per decade.
--
Fortune favors the bold.


"HRH The Example John Smith" wrote:

Ever hear of Jed Connors?


  #30  
Old May 12th 10, 09:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Dave Lee Travis Bickle
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Ha ha!

Corday wrote:
Jed's asylum now limits computer use to five minutes per decade.

Ever hear of Jed Connors?



 




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