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   Maria Sophia to All   
   Re: PSA: Clipboard differences between C   
   13 Feb 26 15:17:31   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Mr Ön!on wrote:   
   > Even to the extent of using the same unusual newsreader, Maria!   
   > I'm sure Paul is very flattered; I do hope it doesn't turn his head.   
      
   I've been very public who I am so Paul is extremely well aware who I am   
   as I've been posting extremely helpful tutorials for decades on Usenet.   
      
   I haven't changed who I am in decades of posting scores of articles daily.   
   However, I admire Paul (and others like Andy & Zaidy & Herbert, et al).   
      
   While I'm one of a kind, I don't have the social skills that they have.   
      
   Like they do though, I know the million things about "stuff" that most   
   people only know a half dozen of, where privacy is one of those things.   
      
   Most people know about six of the million things I know about privacy.   
      
   Where header privacy is one of those things, just as much as never reading   
   from the same nntp server that wee post to is another one of those things.   
      
   People who least understand privacy deprecate it out of ignorance, where   
   Paul has always been understanding that the gift is in the article body.   
      
   The whole point of every thread is to add value to our tribal knowledge.   
   That was and is the point of this thread. To warn others with this PSA.   
      
   Those who claimed "notepad++ doesn't exsist on Linux" didn't read what was   
   written in the original post, or, if they did, they didn't understand it.   
      
   That's my problem I guess, in that I wasn't descriptive enough.   
   For that I apologize since Notepad++ has nothing to do with the issue.   
      
   The editor didn't create the issue.   
   The editor just reacted to it.   
      
   Chromium (and to some extent, Firefox) creates the issue (so to speak).   
   I was just being kind and helpful, where I admire that Paul always is.   
      
   I know who is kind and helpful, and who isn't, where Paul has always been   
   very helpful when adding value, even with a nice twist of added sarcasm.   
      
   Paul has a way of responding to the trolls who can never add any value,   
   which is why they troll, with far more kind-hearted aplomb than I can.   
      
   I respect Paul's acumen and his ability to add value in every post.   
   As for my newsreader, I wrote it on Solaris decades ago and ported it to   
   Windows probably a decade or so ago, so all the header lines are bogus.   
      
   Just as the wrapping paper isn't the gift of the package inside, most   
   people who don't understand the thread topic seem to think the pretty   
   wrapping paper which encloses the gift, 'is' the gift. It's not.   
      
   The value of any Usenet post is not in the headers, but in the body.   
      
   My value for Usenet is not in a collection of tens of thousands of headers   
   over the years, but in the posting of hundreds if not thousands of articles   
   that add value to the tribal knowledge of each particular newsgroup.   
      
   The value I'm striving to add in this thread is a kind-hearted helpful word   
   to the wise that what tripped me up with invisible HTML could trip you up.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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