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in article , Tinkerntom
at wrote on 1/22/05 4:36 PM:

Well Kman, you are in unusually rare form today as well. I do hope the
explosion helped you feel better! Though I am wondering if it blew part
of your name away.

As far as the double posting issue, since it causes you so much pain

It's a bit like farting at the usenet dinner table Tinerntom, but please,
continue to stink if you wish. You always talk about what an eager learner
you are, so I thought you might like to know that

you might consider checking out the new Google gateway to the usenet.
When a post is removed, you never see it again. I suspect that Google
is providing this convience to promote a faster and more convient
access to the discussion forum. The list services seem to be an archaic
hold over from the old monolithic central server days. The postings
also go through much faster. I have checked out some of the list
servers where it can take between several hours to even days for the
list servers to catch up with the post. I have not been able to
determine what other benefit the old list server format offers, than
that established usenet users, have trouble learning new processes.
Even the whole idea of bottom posting and including snippits in a post,
appears to no longer be necessary. Sort of like using telegraph or
smoke signals to communicate, when we have telephones and television.
But I realize that some folks may have trouble making that leap into
the 21st century, and I will work on being more sensitive to their loss
of time and effort, with my double posting, and will try to hold it
down to a minimum.

LOL. You scored high on the pompous scale for that one. FYI, my posts appear
instantaneously. You might be surprised (because you seem rather unaware of
the world around you) that everyone on usenent is aware of google and knows
how to use it.

As to my storming off, there were no such dramatics involved, just
that I was willing to move on if you were

I see. That's not what you said though. You said this:

"As for me, I continue to move on, to enjoy posting here and else where,
and to generally enjoy the whole paddling and usenet experience. Have a good
life Keenan. Thankyou and Good bye, Tinkerntom"

which you apparently were
not. You called me back with a question or statement, which I said I
was willing to stick around for awhile longer and respond to. If you
are now willing to move on, so am I, and I will restate,

"As for me, I continue to move on, to enjoy posting here and else
where, and to generally enjoy the whole paddling and usenet experience.
Have a good life Keenan. Thankyou and Good bye, Tinkerntom"

And that statement still doesn't carry a meaning anything like the
historical revisionist version you are spinning now.