New people: links to the *F.A.Q.*

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Antoine

Cousin Stanley said:
What do you think about adding a small list
of PL voted-on/recommended FreeWare sites
to the PL page and to John's weekly post ???

e.g. .... The PricelessWare Top 10 ....
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That looks a good idea to me.
 
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Cousin Stanley

What do you think about adding a small list
of PL voted-on/recommended FreeWare sites
to the PL page and to John's weekly post ???

e.g. .... The PricelessWare Top 10 ....
 
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Vic Dura

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|3iff //ullins

Blick auf wie gut Susan Bugher <[email protected]> goh, a hundert
LKWAS in einer Reihe geht, einige mit Kühen und einige mit Enten on
Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:21:01 -0400:
When you post
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please don't feed teh corliss troll. he's fat enough as it is.

**
flaking pup ice never greasy, ice snow
but i hace to go
knowing spiro agnew
its the best i can do
 
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Jonathan Wolgamuth

Last I read, I was in your twit-filter so you probably won't see this
message. However, I do want to commend you for listing the alternative
"anti-faq" with you periodic newbie posts.
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On the off-chance JC might want to see this. ;-)

--
Jonathan

"Kids are great Apu! You can teach them to hate the things you hate, and
they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

H.S.
 
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mike ring

I found more honest good sense in a much smaller compass than I've come
across for a long time.

I suppose I never got far enough down the faqs' and thugs' threads to get
the link - they are too depressing.

It oughta be the official version

mike r
 
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Susan Bugher

Cousin said:
What do you think about adding a small list
of PL voted-on/recommended FreeWare sites
to the PL page and to John's weekly post ???

e.g. .... The PricelessWare Top 10 ....
Click to expand...


I'd like to add this site for Linux equivalents of Windows programs.

http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/

perhaps a link to the Wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/

I think we should add more newsgroup and FAQ links too - ones that
relate to the Pricelessware programs.

The CD FAQ is a great resource:

http://www.cdrfaq.org/

Blinky and others have mentioned a good web authoring group - can't
think of the name - alt.html ???

Other suggestions?

Susan
 
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mike ring

It's at the /top/ of each FAQ thread.
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I only just noticed - I think the trouble is although I have a killfile I
only use it for real lowlife posters or dedicated trolls.

But I have a mental blanker that cuts in for kops, gestapo, bullies etc,
and that gets triggered quite easily, but I won't mention names ;-0

mike r
 
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mike ring

http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/g/GodwinsLaw.html

And I don't remember ever having bullied anybody but spammers. They
got nothing coming to them.
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You are probably right, which is why I tried not to continue the injustice
in my post.

I still mentally blank anyone who gets involved in long philosopical
arguments/wars, and even appears to sacrifice humanity for dogma.

It seems to me sometimes that you, perhaps correctly with all your
experience, perhaps not if there's a touch of over enthusiasm, spot and
label a spammer in about one sentence.

Godwin's law sounds cool, but I fear is just another wannabe aphorism, I
used to be fond of them when I was a pastor many years ago

mike r
 
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John Corliss

mike said:
You are probably right, which is why I tried not to continue the injustice
in my post.
I still mentally blank anyone who gets involved in long philosopical
arguments/wars, and even appears to sacrifice humanity for dogma.
It seems to me sometimes that you, perhaps correctly with all your
experience, perhaps not if there's a touch of over enthusiasm, spot and
label a spammer in about one sentence.
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To the best of my knowledge, I've only been wrong about two or three
times when I labeled somebody as a spammer, and back in my spamcop
days I used to file about 3-5 reports a day. That's not a bad record.
However, since my ISP changed newsfeeds I don't see much spam anymore
so I don't do much reporting.
Godwin's law sounds cool, but I fear is just another wannabe aphorism, I
used to be fond of them when I was a pastor many years ago
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Might be, but Godwin's law is a means of ending a "long philosopical
argument/war". It's kind of an accepted "factoid" or "rule" in usenet.
And you'll have to forgive my overenthusiasm for dogma when it
comes to the definition of freeware. That came about because of all
the selfishly motivated, hidden-agenda carrying attempts by various
idiots to modify the definition of freeware in order to market various
things/scams. The main type of off-topic conversation I'm concerned
with is when somebody starts a thread or introduces discussion of:

adware
cdware (when not openly available to everybody via a download link)
betaware (when bug reporting is mandatory)
commercial software
demoware
liteware (when it borders on being nagware)
the various shareware types (crippleware, nagware, time-limited)
spyware
trialware,
viruses and
warez.

None of these are freeware and it's an ongoing effort on the part of
not just myself to prevent this group from degenerating into inclusion
of these types. Still Mike, you have to admit that I try to be
courteous these days when asking somebody to stay on topic. Not bad
for a godless barbarian. 80)>
 
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Vic Dura

To the best of my knowledge, I've only been wrong about two or three
times when I labeled somebody as a spammer,
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I would call that a significant understatement.
 
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mike ring

None of these are freeware and it's an ongoing effort on the part of
not just myself to prevent this group from degenerating into inclusion
of these types. Still Mike, you have to admit that I try to be
courteous these days when asking somebody to stay on topic. Not bad
for a godless barbarian. 80)>
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That's all true, and I respect it and try to be more open-minded these
days, but I still have a fear of crushing someone by my error of judgement.

Ther's another saying, but I can't quote it, the gist is if a person fools
me once, he's bad; if he does it again, I'm a fool.

Within limits, I give them the first bite

Regards

mike
 
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John Corliss

mike said:
That's all true, and I respect it and try to be more open-minded these
days, but I still have a fear of crushing someone by my error of judgement.
There's another saying, but I can't quote it, the gist is if a person fools
me once, he's bad; if he does it again, I'm a fool.

Within limits, I give them the first bite
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The saying is:

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
 

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