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   Message 258 of 470   
   Kelb tal-Fenek to Adam H. Kerman   
   Re: cmsg newgroup alt.bbs.enthral   
   16 Jun 09 08:49:39   
   
   XPost: alt.config, alt.bbs.enthral, alt.usenet.kooks   
   From: spot@tioat.net   
      
   Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Frank Linhares   wrote:   
   >>Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>> Frank Linhares  wrote:   
   >>>> Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>>> Frank Linhares  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Do you want to hear about the errors, or don't you care?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:38:45 -0500   
   >>>>>> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:38:43 -0400   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Your system clock is off by an hour.   
   >>>   
   >>> Whoops! I misread 22: as 23: . Sorry about that. Never mind.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> From: Frank Linhares    
   >>>>>> Reply-To: frank@no.spam.bbs-scene.org   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Do you know what the purpose of Reply-To is? It's NOT to repeat the   
   >>>>> address on From. If you're not changing the address, you don't use   
   >>>>> Reply-To. Typically it's used in Mail when you're sending a message from   
   >>>>> a network on which you don't have an account.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.bbs.enthral   
   >>>   
   >>>>> I told you specifically that newgroup messages are sent to the group   
   >>>>> being created. It doesn't matter all that much what newsgroup is put on   
   >>>>> the Newsgroups header. Crossposting will not improve propagation, but   
   >>>>> using the group being creating helps with screening.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Several of the FAQs are wrong on this point, but why listen to anything   
   >>>>> you're told in alt.config?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> Followup-To: poster   
   >>>   
   >>>>> If there must be a followup, it's in alt.config. How, exactly, did you   
   >>>>> expect this header to work with your munged email addess domain?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.bbs.enthral   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> For your newsgroups file:   
   >>>>>> alt.bbs.enthral   Support and discussion of the Enthral BBS package   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Support, discussion, and package are not key words and do not belong in   
   >>>>> the description. Enthral and BBS repeat words from the group name.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> CHARTER: alt.bbs.enthral discusses support, feature requests, and bug   
   >>>>>> reports of the enthral bbs system.  The discussion will also spill over   
   >>>>>> into general bbs technology.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> JUSTIFICATION: A scan of Google Groups shows a very limited discussion   
   >>>>>> of Enthral.  As of today only 15 messages have been posted.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Was it within the last 90 days? Was enthral the main topic, or merely   
   >>>>> mentioned incidentally? How many different users were there writing about   
   >>>>> Enthral as a main topic of the message? Were any of the messages full   
   >>>>> text quotes of an article from another medium?   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Did you read any of them?   
   >>>   
   >>>>> If you still don't know the answers to any of those questions, which are   
   >>>>> very much like the questions Brian was trying to get you to think about,   
   >>>>> how the hell can you promote the group?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> The software is very new and the interest of a wide spread has popped   
   >>>>>> up in various messaging networks.  A central location of discussion on   
   >>>>>> usenet has been agreed upon by the developers since it's the best and   
   >>>>>> most wide spread messaging network of them all.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> None of this is justification, so what is it doing in that section?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> This second   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Third.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> control message has been sent as a retro-charter in an   
   >>>>>> effort to fix the mistake of what was thought to be a test control   
   >>>>>> message sent late last week.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> What the fuck is it with you and apologizing?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> Thank You.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> No.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Ummmm thanks for your comments but you can wipe your ass with them.  If   
   >>>> you don't like it, don't read it dick head.   
   >>>   
   >>> Unless and until you go away and start promoting the group, I'll   
   >>> continue to make comments. You don't need anyone's permission to keep   
   >>> fucking up, and I don't need anyone's permission to comment.   
   >>   
   >>And I have no intentions of going anywhere, just like you clearly don't   
   >>need my permission to be a fucking dickhead, your doing just fine on   
   >>your own.   
   >   
   > It seems you never wanted that newsgroup to succeed to begin with, did   
   > you. You're going to make it fail just to spite me!   
   >   
   > Brilliant, just brilliant.   
      
   It took him awhile to figure out that you were a fucking dickhead.   
   So what if he's not a genius. I agree, he *is* brilliant.   
      
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