On 4/8/2012 6:41 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:29:07 -0400, Buzzard wrote:
>> bleh....
>
>
> Welcome to this Usenet newsgroup.
> The following is just an FYI and no response is needed.
>
> Since the post showed up here, the test failed. :)
> Do you know about the 400+ test groups on Usenet?
> The ones ending in .test.
>
> One example: eternal-september.test
>
> Some interesting information about test posts may be found in
>
http://livinginternet.com/u/uu_test.htm
>
> Please use something like alt.test or misc.test for testing.
> For binary test, use something like alt.binaries.test
>
> For a more productive Usenet exeprience, please, read
>
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
> For odd punctuation marks seen at end of text, you might look at
>
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/hahakiam/emoticon.html
>
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.humor/msg/1154ef326a80e708?dmode=source
>
> For fun, you might save the above, email it to yourself, and see how
> many smileys turn into icons.
>
> Note: You may want to save those urls. I have been posting this for
> more than 5 years with the archive flag set so that servers
> honoring the flag can delete this post. That saves some space on
> the server due to the amount of newbies posting test messages to
> live news groups. :(
>
listnimble