I realise it's one of the more inoffensive crimes, but it regularly
causes me to desire punching the monitor, as if it were [insert
preferred bugbear]'s face.
I'm thinking in terms of adding something to the FAQ. Shabang.
Just realised that having installed my new computer in haste, the email address for newsgroupy stuff has been incorrectly set to petergaley@etc instead of...
Can we do something about this, as well? I realise it's one of the more inoffensive crimes, but it regularly causes me to desire punching the monitor, as if it...
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:53:45 -0500, Siobahn Morgan <morgans@...> wrote: Annoying. ... Richard Daniel Henry danhenry@......
R. Dan Henry
danhenry@...
Sep 24, 2004 8:01 pm
This is ... From: "Siobahn Morgan" <morgans@...> To: <modish@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [modish] Top Posting...
So when you put your comments (new text) at the top of a quoted message rather than in the middle or nearer where the text is that you are responding to, that...
... Dats der bunny. I'm surprised you've not come across this before - I still consider myself a relative newbie to Usenet, and I've seen more top/bottom ...
... I like that quote/instruction - should I include it into the FAQ? I don't see it as a huge crime whether someone puts their info at the top/bottom/middle...
... Couldn't hurt - I don't know if you might need permission from the original author, but I doubt they'd refuse it. ... Personally that's the problem I have...
... Yes. It's annoying as all get-out because it totally disrupts the natural flow of conversation. The CORRECT way to quote is the way I'm doing here. ... A:...
... Up to a point, Lord Copper.... The difficulty being that you can't make requests of this type on radwm as it would be a meta issue and thus off-topic. I...
... Personally I have an issue with the concept of posters picking up other posters on the way they structure contributions to a thread. I've seen these (on...
... That's fair enough, and I can see why you wouldn't want that on the NG. ... To a far lesser extent, for the same reason you don't want flames, trolls and...
... Indeed but it's also impolite IMO to comment on people's styles and standards of written communication (please see below). I'm pretty sure that used to be...
... express ... A while ago, I wrote this to J2Rider: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W34325C69 Did I do wrong? He seemed to take it well enough (which is more...
... I don't know if it's "wrong" and if it turns out to be what a majority of folk want I'll go along with it. I just have issues about this because I have...
... Point taken. I would not, as a rule, comment on spelling/grammar errors - unless - and this is important- the level of them was such that it was impossible...
... sure ... Politely suggesting that someone might want to spellcheck, or follow standard posting conventions (and despite my contention that many tools...
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:10:32 -0000, "martyse5" <martin@...> ... I would recommend that they create a Doctor Who group in a French-language hierarchy...
R. Dan Henry
danhenry@...
Oct 2, 2004 5:42 am
... over ... Force majeure. This is how things are being handled over on the land of the insane: http://brass.cream.org/archive/oct2004/msg00014.html Blessed...
... for ... Ah, but we're not aiming for that. I'm not about to go around saying, "Oi, you, stop crossposting!", or reporting people to the moderators every 5...
... Well, stop using Outhouse Excuse then! :-) But seriously, how difficult is it to move a cursor? (Provided of course that you know to do so, which where a...
... I don't use it, at least not for newsgroups. I use Google for my postings to usenet. However, I *do* use Outlook (pro) for work, as it's our standard. The...
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 06:41:37 -0000, "Jim Vowles" <jvowles@...> ... Which isn't a real newsreader, either. ... There is no such thing as "defaulting to...
R. Dan Henry
danhenry@...
Sep 26, 2004 7:05 am
... I thought I remembered you being a Mac user - hence the smiley... ... By choice? I tried reading with google once when my computer was poorly and found the...
... makes ... Yup. I use Mac Mail, though Entourage is pretty decent. ... to ... No, my past two ISPs have offered feeble newsgroup support. Usenet is, I fear,...
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