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In article <0001HW.C4103F4E0000B9B4B01AD9AF@news.btinternet.com>,
Countryman <mail@xxx.co.uk> wrote:

> test

Error: TEST POST FAILURE
Test posts are not accepted in comp.sys.mac.apps news group.
Please use a news group designated for test posts such as
alt.test in the future.

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:32:56 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article
<jollyroger-2EE847.13325626032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net> ):

> In article <0001HW.C4103F4E0000B9B4B01AD9AF@news.btinternet.com>,
>  Countryman <mail@xxx.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>
> Error: TEST POST FAILURE
>        Test posts are not accepted in comp.sys.mac.apps news group.
>        Please use a news group designated for test posts such as
>        alt.test in the future.
>
>

Sorry but I had a specific problem - or so I thought - with this particular
group.

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:55:23 +0000, Countryman <mail@xxx.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Sorry but I had a specific problem - or so I thought - with this particular
>group.

The trick is to think of something useful to say - and nobody knows
it's a test.

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:49:54 +0000, Howard Brazee wrote
(in article <8mdlu35ngf3jsb963u7ck9ndr0l3dk56c1@4ax.com> ):

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:55:23 +0000, Countryman <mail@xxx.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>
> The trick is to think of something useful to say - and nobody knows
> it's a test.

:-) So true.

But is it not a shame that  one has to resort to such measures in order to
avoid........ I'd best leave it there I think!!

In article <0001HW.C4114D4100032CDDB01AD9AF@news.btinternet.com>,
Countryman <mail@xxx.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:49:54 +0000, Howard Brazee wrote
> (in article <8mdlu35ngf3jsb963u7ck9ndr0l3dk56c1@4ax.com> ):
> 
>
> :-) So true.
>
> But is it not a shame that  one has to resort to such measures in order to
> avoid........ I'd best leave it there I think!!

<sarcasm>
Yes, I agree. It's a real shame you should have to avoid posting
off-topic test posts to a Mac system newsgroup. In fact, hell. Why stop
there?  Why not post about Windows issues and dog walking here as well?
In fact, why do we even need more than one news group on Usenet to begin
with?
</sarcasm>

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In article
<jollyroger-B348A5.12390427032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> <sarcasm>
> Yes, I agree. It's a real shame you should have to avoid posting
> off-topic test posts to a Mac system newsgroup. In fact, hell. Why stop
> there?  Why not post about Windows issues and dog walking here as well?
> In fact, why do we even need more than one news group on Usenet to begin
> with?
> </sarcasm>

...waiting to see a horde of people shit all over JR for posting the
above...

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In article < 270320081200352413%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbal
derstone.ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> In article
> <jollyroger-B348A5.12390427032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>
> ...waiting to see a horde of people shit all over JR for posting the
> above...

Actually I was expecting some really interesting dog walking posts.

In article <ringwraith-5F0720.14131827032008@nntp.motzarella.org>,
ringwraith <ringwraith@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> In article < 270320081200352413%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbal
derstone.ca>,
>  Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:
> 
>
> Actually I was expecting some really interesting dog walking posts.

OK,
FROM "THE READER OVER YOUR SHOULDER," BY ROBERT GRAVES
AND ALAN HODGE
From the Minutes of a Borough Council Meeting:

Councilor Trafford took exception to the proposed notice at the entrance
of South Park: 'No dogs must be brought to this Park except on a lead.'
He pointed out that this order would not prevent an owner from releasing
his pets, or pet, from a lead when once safely inside the Park.

The Chairman (Colonel Vine): What alternative wording would you propose,
Councilor?

Councilor Trafford: 'Dogs are not allowed in this Park without leads.'

Councilor Hogg: Mr. Chairman, I object. The order should be addressed to
the owners, not to the dogs.

Councilor Trafford: That is a nice point. Very well then: 'Owners of
dogs are not allowed in this Park unless they keep them on leads.'

Councilor Hogg: Mr. Chairman, I object. Strictly speaking, this would
prevent me as a dog-owner from leaving my dog in the back-garden at home
and walking with Mrs. Hogg across the Park.

Councilor Trafford: Mr. Chairman, I suggest that our legalistic friend
be asked to redraft the notice himself.

Councilor Hogg: Mr. Chairman, since Councilor Trafford finds it so
difficult to improve on my original wording, I accept. 'Nobody without
his dog on a lead is allowed in this Park.'

Councilor Trafford: Mr. Chairman, I object. Strictly speaking, this
notice would prevent me, as a citizen, who owns no dog, from walking in
the Park without first acquiring one.

Councilor Hogg (with some warmth): Very simply, then: 'Dogs must be led
in this Park.'

Councilor Trafford: Mr. Chairman, I object: this reads as if it were a
general injunction to the Borough to lead their dogs into the Park.

Councilor Hogg interposed a remark for which he was called to order;
upon his withdrawing it, it was directed to be expunged from the Minutes.

The Chairman: Councilor Trafford, Councilor Hogg has had three tries;
you have had only two. . .

Councilor Trafford: 'All dogs must be kept on leads in this Park.'

The Chairman: I see Councilor Hogg rising quite rightly to raise another
objection. May I anticipate him with another amendment: 'All dogs in
this Park must be kept on the lead.'

This draft was put to the vote and carried unanimously, with two
abstentions.

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In article <tomstiller-963476.14213227032008@newsgroups.comcast.net>,
Tom Stiller <tomstiller@comcast.net> wrote:

> In article <ringwraith-5F0720.14131827032008@nntp.motzarella.org>,
>  ringwraith <ringwraith@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
>
> OK,
> FROM "THE READER OVER YOUR SHOULDER," BY ROBERT GRAVES
> AND ALAN HODGE
> From the Minutes of a Borough Council Meeting:
(snip)

Now them there's some good read'n!

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