On 5/22/2013 12:38 AM, Dustin wrote:
> SilverGhost <
silve...@mixnym.net> wrote in
>
news:87bfa55f03e1ec8b...@msgid.frell.theremailer.net:
>
>> It's nice to meet you all.
>
> It's nice to meet you as well Spider. Although if you give it a few weeks,
> you might regret meeting some of us. Myself possibly included. It just
> depends on how you take us.
>
> Feel free to join in on any number of ongoing conversations or start your
> own. We tend to discuss just about anything here, but this is not a
> binaries group so it would be greatly appreciated if you did not post
> binaries here.
>
> If you wish to share a picture or something, please make use of tinypic or
> something similar and provide the url to the picture; don't post the
> picture itself here.
>
> I would also advise that you not discuss anything here of a personal nature
> that could allow anyone to determine who you are or who your family members
> are in real life. Some individuals participating in this usenet newsgroup
> have stalking tendencies and have demonstrated using them.
>
> In short, if you don't want someone to generate a google street map view of
> your house or that of your parents, don't share pictures showing them or
> anything else identifiable as a landmark. Never discuss anything about your
> personal life here. It will be abused by a small minority of people that
> get off on others misery. To save you a little leg work, those individuals
> are listed below:
>
> If you have a death in your family, do *not* mention any detail concerning
> it here. Family member names are always present in obituary listings and
> some individuals here really do get off sending letters to family members
> and going after them if they have any sort of problem with you.
>
> Other than the high school mentality I've described which takes place all
> too frequently in this newsgroup... It's still managed to atttract and keep
> intelligent, well rounded, individuals. The stable individuals of this
> particular newsgroup are listed in no specific order below: OldGringo38,
> Oldus Fartus, SeaNymph, Aardvark, John Karras, Mike Easter, Betty, Philo,
> Ferd Berfle, FromTheRafters, Shadow, Sycho, RonNNNm Rikijo (sp?), practice,
> G. Morgan, and myself Dustin. These are the *only* individuals here that
> can be trusted. The other individuals who post, Jax, Jenn, BD, Eagle and
> various socks of Eagle's are not to be trusted.
>
> Consider yourself warned. Please don't take my word for anything, observe
> the people I've listed and reach your own conclusions.
>
>
Seems like reasonable advice to me, not just in this group but almost
anywhere on the internet.