From: dfreemans@live.com
On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 9:51:53 AM UTC-4, Lardy Girl wrote:
> Jon Gearhart wrote:
> > Debra wrote:
> [I wrote]
> > >> And a newsreader's killfile or score file can make
> > >> someone who floods the group invisible without anyone needing to
> > >> report the offender for breaking terms of service on multi-posting
> > >> etc.
> [...]
> > > In the above text Anna uses the term "multi-posting", and seems to
> > > suggest not only that this has occurred at alt.anagrams but that
> > > anyone could have and should have reported "the offender" for
> > > their breakage of terms of service.
> My comments were general ones on the situation referred to upthread
> (flooding, which often invovles multi-posting). The suggestion is
> simply that the newsreader software provides an easier* way
> of making a user disappear from view than resorting to getting that
> user to go away. This applies to any poster whose material one would
> rather not read, whether the posts are off-topic or on-topic, whether
> they are unique and concise or lengthy and identical / substantially
> identical.
> * Whether it's a _better_ way in any given case is another kettle of
> fish.
> As to you specifically, I have indeed noticed several duplicate posts
> from you but also cases of more than two copies (I haven't looked
> recently). If this isn't intentional, I should mention that
> - Google Groups* may not make it clear whether one is directing a
> cancel request at news servers all over the world or instead just
> asking for a duplicate, triplicate, etc. post to be removed from
> Google's own memory
> - even if one issues a cancel message immediately, not all news
> servers honour these, so some people will still see multiple copies in
> their newsreader
WHO is the 'you' that Anna is speaking to here? Jon or Debra? It seems to
be Debra, yet she made the reply to Jon. AGAIN her writing is not clear.
When I have deleted a post of mine from alt.anagrams via Google Groups
I have never expected that it was not already bounced on the servers and/or
deposited elsewhere. My interest is what I DO have control over which is
how my postings look via the Google Groups interface.
> * Obligatory note: Google Groups sucks.
IS THIS A clear or appropriate comment? She gives no detail, which makes
the comment meaningless, and she does not seem to recognize that no
private business can survive and thrive if it 'sucks'. My Google experience,
interfacing alt.anagrams, has been good or great overall. I have not the
slightest idea why anyone would say that Google Groups sucks.
> [snip some opinions on thresholds for considering multi-posting
> problematic]
> > Constructive criticism=
> > Victim counters critics
> Nice anagram, even with the 'critics'/'criticism' semi-repetition.
> That wasn't a criticism. ;)
> I'll use a different phrase for my 'ObAnag', since I seem to recall
> looking at 'constructive criticism' in the past and not finding
> anything I considered worth posting.
> Harsh criticism =
> Charm hit crisis.
HARSH CRITICISM ~ 'S AIM? RICH CHRIST. [SPIRITUALLY RICH]
RICH CHRIST AIMS? ~ HARSH CRITICISM.
RICH SAINT? ~ CHRISTIAN ~ INRI, CHATS!
He gave as good as he got, and often even better. He treated
people like people treated him. To the righteous he was gracious;
to the wicked he was tough as hell. READ Matthew Mark Luke John!
I have never seen anyone at alt.anagrams utilize the former style,
but when visiting anagrammy in recent times I saw a post with this
style. I had been wondering if this style was considered valid by
anyone after I myself had come across an anagram had by using it
[which I never posted]. My opinion is that it is. Undoubtedly there
is at least one person who thinks it is not.
Debra Dee Freeman
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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