Google Groups (was: Latin, the Enlightenment, and science)

[Adam Funk]

On 2009-12-29, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> On Dec 28, 5:01 pm, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> On 2009-12-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>
>> > On Dec 28, 5:01 am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>> >> It's almost certainly a problem with Google Groups.  If
>> >> Peter would break down and get a decent news client, he'd
>> >> not have the problem.
>>
>> > Yet somehow Google Groups managed to show the letters a few minutes
>> > later.
>>
>> > None of the newsgroup-snobs has ever explained what's _wrong_ with
>> > google groups.
>>
>> Not true.  You just don't like the explanations.
>
> I've never _seen_ any explanations. Antonio just gave some, and it
> turns out our two systems are all but equivalent.
>
>> http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=120829004500
>>
>> http://improve-usenet.org/
>
> Those don't look like postings to the newsgroups by people including
> you who like to impugn google groups.
>
>> > Just as the internet snobs never used to explain what was wrong with
>> > AOL.
>>
>> That's good, coming from someone who regularly impugns the
>> qualifications and right to post of people he disagrees with.
>>
>> > (I think it was nice of them to be constantly sending free blank
>> > diskettes to people.)
>>
>> As if we didn't produce too much landfill already?
>
> Should I have _not used_ the diskettes they sent me, but instead gone
> out and bought a box of new ones?

Then they switched to non-reusable CDs.

--
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Mermaid" off a Red Lobster Menu. [Bucky Katt]

[Adam Funk]

On 2009-12-30, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:

> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> On Dec 29, 9:27 pm, "PaulJK" <paul.kr...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>> jmfbahciv wrote:
>
>>> Your guess seems to me to be a good one. It would
>>> explain how sometimes he sees chars with diacritics and
>>> sometimes just spaces giving him the impression that it's
>>> something the posters do, not his google i/face.
>
>> The missing-character thing NEVER happened before I mentioned it a day
>> or two ago.
>
> Do you remember the message(-ID)? If so we could analyze the error.

You're talking to a real google-grouper who once said "I don't even
know what a MID is."

--
Civilization is a race between catastrophe and education.
[H G Wells]

[jmfbahciv]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2009-12-30, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
>
>> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>> On Dec 29, 9:27 pm, "PaulJK" <paul.kr...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>>> jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>> Your guess seems to me to be a good one. It would
>>>> explain how sometimes he sees chars with diacritics and
>>>> sometimes just spaces giving him the impression that it's
>>>> something the posters do, not his google i/face.
>>> The missing-character thing NEVER happened before I mentioned it a day
>>> or two ago.
>> Do you remember the message(-ID)? If so we could analyze the error.
>
> You're talking to a real google-grouper who once said "I don't even
> know what a MID is."
>
>

Do you want to know?

/BAH

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-01-02, jmfbahciv wrote:

I know. You try explaining to PTD how the USENET works.

--
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I don't think that this is a coincidence. [anonymous]

[jmfbahciv]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2010-01-02, jmfbahciv wrote:
>
>> Adam Funk wrote:
>>> On 2009-12-30, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
>
>>>> Do you remember the message(-ID)? If so we could analyze the error.
>>> You're talking to a real google-grouper who once said "I don't even
>>> know what a MID is."
>>>
>>>
>> Do you want to know?
>
> I know. You try explaining to PTD how the USENET works.
>
>

<grin> I'd have to think a long time for that one. I'd
probably use junk snail-mail lists as an analogy.

/BAH