Stay away from Vista

[x1a4]

http://badvista.fsf.org/

“Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall
regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and
using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows
is already proprietary and very restrictive, and *well worth rejecting*.
But the new *'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse* to smuggle in even
more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they
work, how to resist them, and why people should careâ€,

--FSF Program Administrator John Sullivan.


http://www.fsf.org/news/badvista-launch

 

[Shenan Stanley]

http://b4dv1st4.fsf.0rg/

http://www.fsf.0rg/n3ws/b4dv1st4-l4unch

<*note: out of 23+ multi-posts, 8+ different subject lines...*>

I'm all about your right to say whatever you want.
Go for it.

However - could you hone your spamming method of
advertising by learning to cross-post? Seeing this
same thread over-and-over - sometimes with slightly
different subject lines - always unread because you
multi-posted instead is just annoying to me.

It does not want to make me visit your web page or
read the slant you have taken on any web page, but leads
me to believe you are nothing more than a spammer.

Doesn't matter if that is fact or fiction...
It's an impression - just like one would get when watching
late night TV and seeing some of the ads for some of the
ridiculous products and get-rich quick schemes. In other
words - it doesn't shine the most positive light on
whatever message you may be trying to spread.

I am *not* attacking your message. Go for it.

I may not agree with your language or the extremeness of
some of your politics - but I am grateful I don't - or
how boring would this life be?

 

[Poprivet]

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[Gerry Cornell]

Shenan

I guess perhaps you have a different view to the faceless John
Sullivan, his cronies and cohorts <G>.

Complaining about failing to crosspost could be said to be a little
naive, although perhaps you have a "cunning plan" in the words of
Black Adder's buddy. I normally use Edit, Find and delete what I find
but cleaning up this rubbish is not so simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldrick

--

Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Poprivet]

Shenan

I guess perhaps you have a different view to the faceless John
Sullivan, his cronies and cohorts <G>.

Complaining about failing to crosspost could be said to be a little
naive, although perhaps you have a "cunning plan" in the words of
Black Adder's buddy. I normally use Edit, Find and delete what I find
but cleaning up this rubbish is not so simple.

I tend to disagree; if it was crossposted, then it wouldn't be appearing for
me as a new message in every ms newsgroup; that's a big advantage. Also,
multiposting isn't allowed in the reqs.

Pop`

 

[Gerry Cornell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multiposting

I think you have reversed the meaning of crosspost and multipost. It
does get your mind in a spin; mine anyway <G>.

If it had been multiposted it would be far easier to delete.

multiposting isn't allowed in the reqs -do they care?

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Bruce Chambers]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multiposting

I think you have reversed the meaning of crosspost and multipost. It
does get your mind in a spin; mine anyway <G>.

If it had been multiposted it would be far easier to delete.

multiposting isn't allowed in the reqs -do they care?

FYI, Poprivet is correct, and you're misreading the Wikipedia entry on
cross-posting.

(No to mention the fact that I'll stake my years of actually using
Usenet against Wikipedia's "million monkeys typing on a million
keyboards" approach to getting things right.)


--

Bruce Chambers

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell

 

[Poprivet]

FYI, Poprivet is correct, and you're misreading the Wikipedia entry on
cross-posting.

(No to mention the fact that I'll stake my years of actually using
Usenet against Wikipedia's "million monkeys typing on a million
keyboards" approach to getting things right.)

LOL, good way to put it, Bruce! It does have its uses though, and I've
found it good as a jumping off point a couple of times. Like anything else,
it's pretty much buyer beware and sometimes you get exactly what you paid
for.

I'm not so sure the million monkeys is the real problem though;
unfortunately (especially with "English", whatever that actually might
mean), the mix of monkeys from around the world can create some hilarity
too. e.g. getting -pissed- comes to mind; three entirely different meanings
in each of the NA, UK and OZ. You have to watch out for spilt milk whilst
browsing amongst all that stuff at times, eh?

Sorry; guess I'm just bored - pain meds aren't working so good today.

Pop`

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Bruce

According to Wikipedia ( and I am not maintaining it is a correct
definition ) where the message is intended for more than one newsgroup
each newsgroup is named and separated one from the other by a comma.

Thus a single posted message displays
"microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support", whereas a cross posted
message to two newsgroups will appear as
"microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain".

A multiposted message will display as
"microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support" in that group and
"microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain" in the second group.

I have not misread the Wikipedia primary definition. It may be
incorrect.

My earlier comments about removal being difficult upon further
investigation were not quite correct. These multiposted message can be
found both by the name of the person posting and by text in the
message. The poster varied the subject, which I usually use as my
search criteria and I gave up earlier. Normally these pests do not use
the same name but on this occasion they did.

My comments are made as an Outlook Express user and different rules
may apply with regard to other applications.

--

Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Zilbandy]

I think you have reversed the meaning of crosspost and multipost. It
does get your mind in a spin; mine anyway <G>.

If it had been multiposted it would be far easier to delete.

I don't know how Outlook Express handles cross posting, but with
Agent, my newsreader, I can set a filter to handle cross posted
messages. Multiposted messages are the pain in the butt to deal with.

 

[Greg Rozelle]

Spam report id 2106240721 sent to: (e-mail address removed)
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I can't believe you would report the Free Software Foundation for
spam.

Anyway. The postmaster and spamcop will most likely ignore it.
Mainly because it is not spam. It is a fact.

That is ridiculous.

See me other post in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general or
misc.consumers

Titled>>I wonder if EFF will sue Microsoft.

Greg Rozelle