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   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_=D6n!on?= to Maria Sophia   
   Re: PSA: Clipboard differences between C   
   13 Feb 26 21:21:20   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: onion@anon.invalid   
      
   Maria Sophia  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   All very laudable, I'm sure.   
      
   I'm particularly interested in Usenet Newsreaders; would you please   
   tell me more about yours?  I've never heard of it before.   
      
      
   [the remainder of your interesting post left for context]   
      
   > 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.   
      
      
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   (((Ï)))    -    Mr Ön!on, NPC   
      
   When we shake the ketchup bottle   
   At first none comes and then a lot'll.   
      
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