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Was Re: test... ignore; Now: Usenet Guidelines history rant.

Richard Brooks

2006-12-14, 9:58 pm

Norman Peelman said the following on 15/12/06 00:40:
> "Jonathan" <jonathan@heelal.nl> wrote in message
> news:4581d24f$0$2019$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl...
>
> Well, then i'll be more specific... my isp seems to be having problems
> with certain groups. I'm getting hundreds of old messages in some groups and
> no messages in others. This test post and your reply are the only messages
> i've received in this newsgroup since around midnight, Dec 13th. But thank
> you for the info anyway.
>
> Norm
>
Ignore the ignorant XXXXers!

I'm sick of all this shite and remember full well, the time when the
Usenet Gods finally agreed that the fact that a test post gets to
alt.test does not mean that it propogates to alt.comp.land.php and it
was felt that so long as the subject header stated the fact that it was
a test post and to please ignore should be sufficient. Then again,
there are people who have to touch something that has a 'wet paint' sign
on it and something that would have nothing to do with their daily lives
but they have to touch it anyway!

The Usenet Guidelines were updated at the point when DejaNews took to
archiving everything, which, if you know recent history, Google dropped
the ball and lost a lot of the archives.

Another of the updated guidelines pointed out that people should use the
"'was' <original subject> 'now'<new meandering topic>" subject line to
let people know where the thread is heading, to save others wasting time
reading something that started well but ended up as a flame war.

Richard.

--
"Naturally the common people don't want war, but they can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being
attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
endangering the country. It works the same in every country."
Reichsmarshall Herman Goering, Nuremberg, 1946

Ric

2006-12-15, 3:58 am

Richard Brooks schrieb:
> Norman Peelman said the following on 15/12/06 00:40:
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> Ignore the ignorant XXXXers!
>
> I'm sick of all this shite and remember full well, the time when the

I usually don't care about test messages and people that drop in and
sending replys to those test messages to discuss if this is good or bad.

But I don't find it amusing if people start using bad language.

@all, just ignore those test messages. If no one replys we have one test
message, if people think they need to tell the original tester to go
test somewehere else we have 10 useless replys or more

Richard Brooks

2006-12-15, 7:59 am

Ric said the following on 15/12/06 08:29:
> Richard Brooks schrieb:
>
>
>
> I usually don't care about test messages and people that drop in and
> sending replys to those test messages to discuss if this is good or bad.
>
> But I don't find it amusing if people start using bad language.

You could always join the Yahoo or Google groups or read points 1
through to 12 of the 'What Is Usenet' article.

I don't give a rat's arse, BTW! It annoys me when others who have
probably got their account from some computer magazine cover disk and
have dived into Usenet with the only tiny mistaken thing they remember
is the old alt.test that they'd heard from a mate or read from other
useless posts.

>
> @all, just ignore those test messages. If no one replys we have one test
> message, if people think they need to tell the original tester to go
> test somewehere else we have 10 useless replys or more

Hmm, don't know why there's an '@all' in there but the point is, if the
person is told not to do the obvious and that was to put a 'please
ignore' then the others telling the original poster off will feel that
they are right and that the original poster was doing wrong.

Richard.

--
"Naturally the common people don't want war, but they can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being
attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
endangering the country. It works the same in every country."
Reichsmarshall Herman Goering, Nuremberg, 1946

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