Spam, spam, spam
Drak'rrth Ssekmith
use of the "report spam" button? I must have clicked it a thousand
times now (including one that I accidentally reported when it wasn't),
and they're still there. And they're quite unsightly. Plus they are
definitely not NC16. Is it worth bothering about the "report spam"
button at all then?
BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
Lord Flame Stryke
40c9-a04e-9...@z4g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
> I'm wondering what's with the copious amounts of spam? And what's the
> use of the "report spam" button? I must have clicked it a thousand
> times now (including one that I accidentally reported when it wasn't),
> and they're still there. And they're quite unsightly. Plus they are
> definitely not NC16. Is it worth bothering about the "report spam"
> button at all then?
Very few of us use Google Groups. But I would iagine that whenever you
report spam to them, they'll take a look at it manually to see what it
is. However, since the only reliable way they have of blocking
something is by blocking an emaiil address of name, and these spammers
have randomly generated names and addresses for each post, it's
difficult, short of banning all access from a single ISP, to stop the
spam.
I just say ignore it. If you respond, you just do their job for them.
After a while, if nobody rises to the bait, they'll get bored and go
away.
> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
Well, happy birthingday in advance.
Lord Flame Stryke
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Simon Richard Clarkstone
> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
How do you know what your hatchingday is?
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Citizen, listen: Kurt Vonnegut did not intend _The Euphio Question_
as a resolution to the Fermi Paradox. (Even he wasn't that depressing.)
Draco18s
s.r.cla...@dunelm.org.uk says...
> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
> > BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> > forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
>
> How do you know what your hatchingday is?
And then there's Fruiting Day. And Awakening Day. Both of mine are
coming up here in the next few months.
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Drak'rrth Ssekmith
<s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
> > BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> > forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
>
> How do you know what your hatchingday is?
>
> --
> Simon Richard Clarkstone:
> Citizen, listen: Kurt Vonnegut did not intend _The Euphio Question_
> as a resolution to the Fermi Paradox. (Even he wasn't that depressing.)
Well, it's not really a "true" hatchday... It's when I first joined
this whole thing, that I consider as a hatchday, and I treasure it as
much as my actual birthday. Of course, if I do find my true hatchday,
I'll rename this something else.
Dafydd Edward Dragon
> In article <o92dnU3ZNPX3KCLX...@giganews.com>,
> s.r.cla...@dunelm.org.uk says...
>> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
>>> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
>>> forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
>> How do you know what your hatchingday is?
>
> And then there's Fruiting Day. And Awakening Day. Both of mine are
> coming up here in the next few months.
>
I wish I knew which was my awakening day.. as for fruiting day.. you
sort of lost me as to how one marks the point in which they start to
fruit o.O
~Dafydd Edward Dragon~
Draco18s
says...
You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
Draco18s
@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, drak...@gmail.com says...
> On Sep 28, 2:56=A0am, Simon Richard Clarkstone
> <s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> > Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
> > > BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> > > forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
> >
> > How do you know what your hatchingday is?
> >
> > --
> > Simon Richard Clarkstone:
> > s.r.cl?rkst...@dunelm.org.uk / s?m?n_cl?rkst...@yahoo.co.uk
> > Citizen, listen: Kurt Vonnegut did not intend _The Euphio Question_
> )
>
> Well, it's not really a "true" hatchday... It's when I first joined
> this whole thing, that I consider as a hatchday
That'd be what I called a Fruiting Day.
Lord Flame Stryke
news:MPG.252b279bf...@free.teranews.com:
>> > And then there's Fruiting Day. And Awakening Day. Both of mine
>> > are coming up here in the next few months.
>> I wish I knew which was my awakening day.. as for fruiting day.. you
>> sort of lost me as to how one marks the point in which they start to
>> fruit o.O
> You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
> Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
It's spelled "Whine" for a reason, you know..... Back when I was a
Young Nut, these Fruits had respect for their Olde Whines, or we taught
them!!
Lord Flame Stryke
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rubere, suppositus, magus. Holder of the Scroll of Nobility from Lady
Viriatha, Keeper of the Wand of Sparklies in its case from Hex, Wielder
of the Lady Viri Signature 4x8 from Ysable, Eater of the Mint Cheesecake
from Whisper, Mate to Lady Viriatha, Owner of Flame Stryke's Windex�
Factory, Lord Balloonmaker, Borrower of the Ebony Wood Fife from
Luxatos, Accepter of the Small Statue of a Green Dragon Covered in Ice
Cream Toppings from Juniper, Employer of a miniature Jester doll from
SeaKing, Bearer of the Magic Ever-Bill from SeaKing, Carrier of the gold
piece from whisper: o, Builder of Dragon Fyre Keep, First Dragon of
Realism, Giver of the Pickaxe of Icebreaking to Kalos, Winner of the
*shiny* riddle award from Pegasus, Wearer of the big *shiny* medal of
posting-ness from Pegasus, Taker of the Gold Medal for Most Posts in
Draco18s
Flame...@Gmail.com says...
> Draco18s <draco18s@DOES_NOT_LIKE_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in
> news:MPG.252b279bf...@free.teranews.com:
>
> >> > And then there's Fruiting Day. And Awakening Day. Both of mine
> >> > are coming up here in the next few months.
> >> I wish I knew which was my awakening day.. as for fruiting day.. you
> >> sort of lost me as to how one marks the point in which they start to
> >> fruit o.O
> > You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
> > Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
>
> It's spelled "Whine" for a reason, you know..... Back when I was a
> Young Nut, these Fruits had respect for their Olde Whines, or we taught
> them!!
You see, you're the one who said it's "whine" which makes my point (and
I didn't have to say it; the old adage of "you said it, not me").
}:=3P
Of course, had I called you an Old Whine you'd have said something about
that too!
--
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Drak'rrth Ssekmith
wrote:
> In article <3aa1cbef-bdb8-453d-9723-d913440913f2
> @g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, drakr...@gmail.com says...
Well, okay. It's a fruiting day then. I'll save "hatching day" for
when I really know it.
Lord Flame Stryke
news:MPG.252b66bd...@free.teranews.com:
>> > You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
>> > Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
>> It's spelled "Whine" for a reason, you know..... Back when I was a
>> Young Nut, these Fruits had respect for their Olde Whines, or we
>> taught them!!
> You see, you're the one who said it's "whine" which makes my point
> (and I didn't have to say it; the old adage of "you said it, not me").
> }:=3P
> Of course, had I called you an Old Whine you'd have said something
> about that too!
Dang straight, you young whippersnapper.
Dafydd Edward Dragon
> In article <h9qv5f$2tc$1...@aioe.org>, -nospam-da...@gmail.com
> says...
>> Draco18s wrote:
>>> In article <o92dnU3ZNPX3KCLX...@giganews.com>,
>>> s.r.cla...@dunelm.org.uk says...
>>>> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
>>>>> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
>>>>> forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
>>>> How do you know what your hatchingday is?
>>> And then there's Fruiting Day. And Awakening Day. Both of mine are
>>> coming up here in the next few months.
>>>
>> I wish I knew which was my awakening day.. as for fruiting day.. you
>> sort of lost me as to how one marks the point in which they start to
>> fruit o.O
>
> You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
>
> Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
>
Interesting age system that was come up for here o.o Guess I'm a fruit
then.. not sure for how many years.. do years from Alfandria muck count? :P
~Dafydd Edward Dragon~
Meliral
<snip>
> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3.
sevens.
Also, I have my First Kyu in Ki Aikido (that's the _highest_ of the Kyu
grades, BTW) on the fourth. So I'd better pass!
--
Meliral, He Who Seeks Sig-Content In The Depths Of His Mind And Fails
Fledgling Raquiri
dafydddra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Draco18s wrote:
> > In article <h9qv5f$2t...@aioe.org>, -nospam-dafydddra...@gmail.com
> > says...
> >> Draco18s wrote:
> >>> In article <o92dnU3ZNPX3KCLXnZ2dnUVZ8v5i4...@giganews.com>,
> >>> s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk says...
> >>>> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
> >>>>> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> >>>>> forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
> >>>> How do you know what your hatchingday is?
> >>> And then there's Fruiting Day. And Awakening Day. Both of mine are
> >>> coming up here in the next few months.
>
> >> I wish I knew which was my awakening day.. as for fruiting day.. you
> >> sort of lost me as to how one marks the point in which they start to
> >> fruit o.O
>
> > You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
>
> > Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
>
> Interesting age system that was come up for here o.o Guess I'm a fruit
> then.. not sure for how many years.. do years from Alfandria muck count? :P
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
Really, who comes up with this stuff? *Runs from the squirrels*
Simon Richard Clarkstone
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:24:35 -0700, Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
> <snip>
>> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3.
>
> Also, I have my First Kyu in Ki Aikido (that's the _highest_ of the Kyu
> grades, BTW) on the fourth. So I'd better pass!
I don't suppose you start at 35 kyu like Go players do, do you? (That
is why they are called kyu, after all.)
--
Simon Richard Clarkstone:
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Citizen, listen: Kurt Vonnegut did not intend _The Euphio Question_
Draco18s
Flame...@Gmail.com says...
> Draco18s <draco18s@DOES_NOT_LIKE_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in
> news:MPG.252b66bd...@free.teranews.com:
>
> >> > You're a nut for your first year Here. After that you're a fruit.
> >> > Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
> >> It's spelled "Whine" for a reason, you know..... Back when I was a
> >> Young Nut, these Fruits had respect for their Olde Whines, or we
> >> taught them!!
> > You see, you're the one who said it's "whine" which makes my point
> > (and I didn't have to say it; the old adage of "you said it, not me").
> > }:=3P
> > Of course, had I called you an Old Whine you'd have said something
> > about that too!
>
> Dang straight, you young whippersnapper.
*Snaps his whip.*
>:=33
--
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Draco18s
@y36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, raq...@gmail.com says...
> On Sep 30, 9:58=A0am, Dafydd Edward Dragon <-nospam-
> dafydddra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Draco18s wrote:
> > > In article <h9qv5f$2t...@aioe.org>, -nospam-dafydddra...@gmail.com
> > > says...
> > >> Draco18s wrote:
> > >>> In article <o92dnU3ZNPX3KCLXnZ2dnUVZ8v5i4...@giganews.com>,
> > >>> s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk says...
> > >>>> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
> > >>>>> BTW, my birthday's on Oct 3. So that's something random to look
> > >>>>> forward to. (Note it's different from "hatchday" for me.)
> > >>>> How do you know what your hatchingday is?
> are
> > >>> coming up here in the next few months.
> >
> > >> I wish I knew which was my awakening day.. as for fruiting day.. you
> > >> sort of lost me as to how one marks the point in which they start to
> > >> fruit o.O
> >
> >
> > > Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
> >
> > then.. not sure for how many years.. do years from Alfandria muck count? =
> :P
> >
> > ~Dafydd Edward Dragon~- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Really, who comes up with this stuff? *Runs from the squirrels*
The dragon code itself is an old whine. It was out of date by the time
I joined up!
(What was that? 2001?)
Simon Richard Clarkstone
> In article <28eb6927-2f69-4a05-b954-7d21522a5d65
> @y36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, raq...@gmail.com says...
>> On Sep 30, 9:58=A0am, Dafydd Edward Dragon <-nospam-
>> dafydddra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Draco18s wrote:
>>>> You're a nut for your first year Here. =A0After that you're a fruit.
>>>> Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
>>> Interesting age system that was come up for here o.o =A0Guess I'm a fruit
>>> then.. not sure for how many years.. do years from Alfandria muck count? =
>> :P
>
> The dragon code itself is an old whine. It was out of date by the time
> I joined up!
> (What was that? 2001?)
How is it out-of-date?
Also, it seems that someone had an attack of the non-breaking spaces
(0xA0; space with the top bit turned on).
Draco18s
s.r.cla...@dunelm.org.uk says...
> Draco18s wrote:
> > In article <28eb6927-2f69-4a05-b954-7d21522a5d65
> > @y36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, raq...@gmail.com says...
> >> On Sep 30, 9:58=A0am, Dafydd Edward Dragon <-nospam-
> >> dafydddra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Draco18s wrote:
> >>>> You're a nut for your first year Here. =A0After that you're a fruit.
> >>>> Sometime around LFS you become an Old Wine.
> >>> Interesting age system that was come up for here o.o =A0Guess I'm a fruit
> >>> then.. not sure for how many years.. do years from Alfandria muck count? =
> >> :P
> >> Really, who comes up with this stuff? *Runs from the squirrels*
> >
> > The dragon code itself is an old whine. It was out of date by the time
> > I joined up!
> > (What was that? 2001?)
>
> How is it out-of-date?
It isn't really.
Not in the sense that it can be /changed/ to be better, or anything. I
just meant that it was old when I was new.
Greylight S.
wrote:
> In article <XL2dnWH8UtP4jUzXnZ2dnUVZ8hT_f...@giganews.com>,
> s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk says...
>
>
>
> > Draco18s wrote:
> > > In article <28eb6927-2f69-4a05-b954-7d21522a5d65
The Dragon Code has been around since... forever... I remember
exploring the site a little and finding a DC1 code that went back
years before I got online.
You're first fruiting day here is exactly one year and no days after
you joined. Then every year on the same day. I'm not sure whether I'm
a fruit or something else by now. My first post is all the way back on
Mon Nov 12, 2001 at 11:54:34PM GMT. Though it didn't show up in the
group until the following day. Would that make it Nov 12 or Nov 13?
I refer to my birthday sometimes as my hatching day. It just makes
sense to me since in nature when an animal hatches it is considered
the first day of their life, and the day one is born (one's birthday)
is considered the same. So hatchie day (or hatching day if you prefer)
for me is the same as birthday.
Greylight S.
Simon Richard Clarkstone
> On Oct 10, 11:43 pm, Draco18s <draco18s@DOES_NOT_LIKE_SPAM_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> In article <XL2dnWH8UtP4jUzXnZ2dnUVZ8hT_f...@giganews.com>,
>> s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk says...
>>
>>> Draco18s wrote:
>>>> The dragon code itself is an old whine. It was out of date by the time
>>>> I joined up!
>>>> (What was that? 2001?)
>>> How is it out-of-date?
>> It isn't really.
>> Not in the sense that it can be /changed/ to be better, or anything. I
>> just meant that it was old when I was new.
>
> exploring the site a little and finding a DC1 code that went back
> years before I got online.
>
> You're first fruiting day here is exactly one year and no days after
> you joined. Then every year on the same day.
What about for me? I started posting many months after I started reading.
Explanation: In the early days I don't think my stomach would have
withstood actually posting to the group; reading it was about the limit.
Indeed for the first few weeks my reading was limited by how long I
could go without vomiting (a limit which I almost always managed to stay
under). Nowadays the effect is very slight; less than that of going in
a lift. Damned if I know what causes it. It must be love ;-).
> I refer to my birthday sometimes as my hatching day. It just makes
> sense to me since in nature when an animal hatches it is considered
> the first day of their life, and the day one is born (one's birthday)
> is considered the same. So hatchie day (or hatching day if you prefer)
> for me is the same as birthday.
Any animal that hatches outside its mother's body must of course be born
before hatching. Maybe the time you start reading should be called your
group birthday and the day you start posting should be called your
hatching day?
Drak'rrth Ssekmith
> Citizen, listen: Kurt Vonnegut did not intend _The Euphio Question_
> as a resolution to the Fermi Paradox. (Even he wasn't that depressing.)
We apologize if your gut is terrorized by the sheer amount of
draconity present here.
Rhainor
<snip>
> Any animal that hatches outside its mother's body must of course be born
> before hatching. Maybe the time you start reading should be called your
> group birthday and the day you start posting should be called your
> hatching day?
That depends on one's definition of "birth". Personally, I consider
hatching as birth, not egg-laying. As a result, differentiating the
terms "birthday" and "hatchday" just seems silly to me.
Of course, YMMV.
--
Rhainor
rha...@gmail.com
Draco18s
s.r.cla...@dunelm.org.uk says...
> Any animal that hatches outside its mother's body must of course be born
> before hatching. Maybe the time you start reading should be called your
> group birthday and the day you start posting should be called your
> hatching day?
What about fish?
Technically the egg is fertilized after its "laid."
Drak'rrth Ssekmith
days when the hatching/baby/calf/what-have-you comes out of the egg,
while laying and fertilization are simply processes. No one remembers
the day when your egg was fertilize - a lot don't even realize it.
Draco18s
13g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, drak...@gmail.com says...
Oh, I'm in the same boat you are. I was just pointing out a
technicality in the suggested obvervance method.
Dafydd Edward Dragon
> In article <30f2ca06-b96f-40be-b086-a9861b56551f@
> 13g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, drak...@gmail.com says...
>> IMO, I'll put hatching day and birthday together, since they are both
>> days when the hatching/baby/calf/what-have-you comes out of the egg,
>> while laying and fertilization are simply processes. No one remembers
>> the day when your egg was fertilize - a lot don't even realize it.
>
> Oh, I'm in the same boat you are. I was just pointing out a
> technicality in the suggested obvervance method.
>
I simply consider birthday/hatchday the moment you are aware and able to
move around as a single entity, not leeching off of another. While in a
womb you leech off the mother and your own systems are all disabled till
'born', and while in an egg the same thing happens, your blood vessels
connect to the yolk and live off of it but your own systems are mostly
disabled. For eggs, you are fully alive a few minutes before the egg
actually breaks, but it's such a short period of time it shouldn't
matter. The moment the un-hatched creature struggles around inside the
egg to move, and is breathing, heart beating, etc. all systems
disconnected from the yolk, it is now 'hatched'.
In short you are born or hatched the moment you are no longer completely
dependant on something else to keep your primary body functions working.
Once you can breath, heartbeat, move, etc. without some other force
doing it for you, you're born/hatched.
~Dafydd Edward Dragon~
Simon Richard Clarkstone
> On Nov 2, 5:58 am, Simon Richard Clarkstone
> <s.r.clarkst...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>> Greylight S. wrote:
>>> You're first fruiting day here is exactly one year and no days after
>>> you joined. Then every year on the same day.
>> What about for me? I started posting many months after I started reading.
>>
>> Explanation: In the early days I don't think my stomach would have
>> withstood actually posting to the group; reading it was about the limit.
>> Indeed for the first few weeks my reading was limited by how long I
>> could go without vomiting (a limit which I almost always managed to stay
>> under). Nowadays the effect is very slight; less than that of going in
>> a lift. Damned if I know what causes it.
>
> draconity present here.
It's not terror; I don't know what it is. From the lack of reaction it
seems that no-one else experienced the same thing. :-(
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Lkuznac Acigt-x
You would be able to discover this if your couples didn't have sex for
fun the same way as they did for reproduction. Kigdatsi do not combine
functionality thus so we cannot reproduce when not wanting to and we
know our exact conception date and we can replace internal fertilisation
with artificial external fertilisation without much disadvantage.
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Drak'rrth Ssekmith
Although I don't know what's a Kigdatsi, I can more-or-less catch what
you mean. However, I'm not sure that combining functions does inhibit
knowledge of conception, unless it is possible to monitor internal
processes, since anything else would lead to an error margin of at
least a single "reproduction attempt".
Azhren
...unless it is possible to monitor internal processes,
since anything else would lead to an error margin of at
least a single "reproduction attempt".
See "Bene Gesserit" or even "Tleilaxu" :)
Drak'rrth Ssekmith
Hehe, yes, I got the idea from there. I'm thinking more of the Bene
Gesserit, however, since the Bene Tleilax just use them as a whole.
Read the entire series. When's the next "Legacy of Dune" book coming
out?
Lkuznac Acigt-x
> On Nov 9, 1:59 am, Lkuznac Acigt-x <lkuz...@kigdatsi.org> wrote:
>> Drak'rrth Ssekmith wrote:
>>> IMO, I'll put hatching day and birthday together, since they are both
>>> days when the hatching/baby/calf/what-have-you comes out of the egg,
>>> while laying and fertilization are simply processes. No one remembers
>>> the day when your egg was fertilize - a lot don't even realize it.
>> You would be able to discover this if your couples didn't have sex for
>> fun the same way as they did for reproduction. Kigdatsi do not combine
>> functionality thus so we cannot reproduce when not wanting to and we
>> know our exact conception date and we can replace internal fertilisation
>> with artificial external fertilisation without much disadvantage.
>
> you mean. However, I'm not sure that combining functions does inhibit
> knowledge of conception, unless it is possible to monitor internal
> processes, since anything else would lead to an error margin of at
> least a single "reproduction attempt".
No. If sex-for-reproduction is separated in time by more than the
gestation period, then conception date can be easily derived without
further monitoring.