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SteveD

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Apr 21, 2010, 6:10:35 AM4/21/10
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:06:54 +0930, Rob Adams <roba...@ozemail.com.au>
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>Ive been away for a while but the silence in here is deafening?
>
>Anybody still reading this group?
>
>Rob.

A few of us.

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Kenneth Brody

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Apr 21, 2010, 11:38:39 AM4/21/10
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On 4/21/2010 3:36 AM, Rob Adams wrote:
> Ive been away for a while but the silence in here is deafening?
>
> Anybody still reading this group?

Nobody here except us chickens. The rest have all recovered. Sorry.

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David Skinner

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Apr 22, 2010, 8:43:17 AM4/22/10
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In article <hnats5l8s3l7gor3u...@4ax.com>,
roba...@ozemail.com.au says...

>
> Ive been away for a while but the silence in here is deafening?
>
> Anybody still reading this group?

Nope. I haven't read this group for years.


Actually, that's accurate. I only resubscribed today to see whether
there was any activity.

SteveD

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Apr 23, 2010, 8:28:13 AM4/23/10
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:43:17 +0100, David Skinner
<drsk...@ntlworldERASETHIS.com> wrote:

>I haven't read this group for years.

Given that there was only, what, one single almost-relevant post in the
whole of 2009, you may not have missed much.


-SteveD

Kenneth Brody

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Apr 23, 2010, 3:29:45 PM4/23/10
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Perhaps there aren't any misconfigured servers left which allowed the
non-poultry posts through? Those were ofttimes amusing, especially the
"creative" responses they would inspire.

"My computer crashed, and I don't have any backups. How do I recover my PhD
thesis?"

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mikea

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Apr 23, 2010, 3:34:27 PM4/23/10
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Kenneth Brody <kenb...@spamcop.net> wrote in <OoadnT_AzfG0aEzW...@bestweb.net>:

Ah; I perceive you have been in Afghanistan^W^W^Wworked in a University
Helldesk.

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Kevin Goebel

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Apr 25, 2010, 7:39:11 PM4/25/10
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On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:47:08 -0400, Ned Brickley <n...@angry.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:29:45 -0400, Kenneth Brody
><kenb...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>"My computer crashed, and I don't have any backups. How do I recover my PhD
>>thesis?"
>

>Step 1: Get a piece of paper
>Step 2: Get several pencils
>Step 3: Get a cup of coffee
>Step 4: Start writing

Or... just pay Essaytown.com another $49.95 and download it again.

Kevin Goebel

Kenneth Brody

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Apr 28, 2010, 2:56:17 PM4/28/10
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On 4/23/2010 3:34 PM, mikea wrote:
> Kenneth Brody<kenb...@spamcop.net> wrote in<OoadnT_AzfG0aEzW...@bestweb.net>:
>> On 4/23/2010 8:28 AM, SteveD wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:43:17 +0100, David Skinner
>>> <drsk...@ntlworldERASETHIS.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't read this group for years.
>>>
>>> Given that there was only, what, one single almost-relevant post in the
>>> whole of 2009, you may not have missed much.
>>
>> Perhaps there aren't any misconfigured servers left which allowed the
>> non-poultry posts through? Those were ofttimes amusing, especially the
>> "creative" responses they would inspire.
>>
>> "My computer crashed, and I don't have any backups. How do I recover my PhD
>> thesis?"
>
> Ah; I perceive you have been in Afghanistan^W^W^Wworked in a University
> Helldesk.

No (thank FSM), but there used to be posts here just like that, where the
writer apparently misunderstood what "tech-support.recovery" meant.

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Kenneth Brody

Kenneth Brody

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Apr 28, 2010, 2:57:21 PM4/28/10
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On 4/24/2010 9:47 AM, Ned Brickley wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:29:45 -0400, Kenneth Brody
> <kenb...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> "My computer crashed, and I don't have any backups. How do I recover my PhD
>> thesis?"
>
> Step 1: Get a piece of paper
> Step 2: Get several pencils
> Step 3: Get a cup of coffee
> Step 4: Start writing

Or, as we used to say, "you'll do it better the second time around".

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Kenneth Brody

LooseChanj

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Jun 12, 2010, 10:53:33 AM6/12/10
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On or about Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:56:17 -0400, Kenneth Brody <kenb...@spamcop.net> made the sensational claim that:

> No (thank FSM), but there used to be posts here just like that, where the
> writer apparently misunderstood what "tech-support.recovery" meant.
>

I never saw any of those, all I got was spam. Sad face.
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