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Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://www.bigberthathing.com/gammaray.html
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Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.seti

Gamma Ray Bursters

  v1.0
  01 feb 2000
  Greg Goebel
  public domain

Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY

Big Bertha Thing publication

The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-

20 No. 50K primary postings   (out of 26)
  2 No. 600K    ditto          (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings     (out of 200)
  4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K      ditto          (out of 26)
20 No. 2K      ditto          (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings  (out of 2000)

There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.

Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.

The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance
tonyla...@bigberthathing.com
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Hi Tony T.,
The following may go some way to shed light on the problem.

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
From: Tony Lance <tonyla...@bigberthathing.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:07:34 -0700
Local: Sun, Sep 4 2011 5:07 pm
Subject: Big Bertha Thing Deaf
Hi Kevin John,
  That goes for Kevin whats-his-face too.
  Now let me get this straight, you are not corporate sponsered.
  Microsoft has already pushed the button to close this newsgroup.
  It was a dud. It was sitting there in public and nobody could
  resist pushing the button, so they had to disable it.
  Microsoft wants your postings on its proprietary newsgroup.
  They have spammed 500 newsgroups with closure notices.
  They lost their anti-trust case and nobody did an ATT&T on them.
  US government bust proof and indestructable.

NB My previous two postings contain 3 copy postings which were
  filtered.

From: Tony Lance <judema...@bigberthathing.co.uk>
  Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
  Subject: Big Bertha Thing Extract
  Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:03:45 +0100

Big Bertha Thing Deaf

One day God woke up, deaf-as-a-post. He could not hear anyone
  speaking. Nothing, dinada, zilch, not even one line e-mail.
  Fortunately it only lasted 6 days and He managed to keep himself busy.

A PPT takes 6 hours people time, 18 hours computer time. It just
  seems longer.
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