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   The Real Bev to All   
   Re: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arreste   
   27 Aug 24 19:45:21   
   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/27/24 11:13 AM, D wrote:   
   > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:39:15 +0300, Anton Shepelev  wrote:   
   >>D to Anton Shepelev:   
   >>> > Telegram's point-to-point chats are not so open, and the   
   >>> > Russian military have no secure messenger of their own.   
   >>>   
   >>>           "The time has come," the Walrus said,   
   >>>               "To talk of many things:   
   >>>            Of shoes-and ships-and sealing-wax --   
   >>>                Of cabbages-and kings --   
   >>>            And why the sea is boiling hot --   
   >>>            And whether pigs have wings."   
   >>   
   >>I am not English enought to know the reference and its   
   >>meaning.   
   >   
   > it this context, it means that every usenet news server that has ever   
   > allowed posting (yes, including mail-to-news, remailers, website nntp   
   > backends etc.) shares complicity in not only enabling, but tolerating   
   > the usenet psyops troll farm which has systematically infiltrated and   
   > occupied every busy newsgroup since circa 1993 when public access and   
   > popularity of usenet newsgroups skyrocketed into the stratosphere for   
   > unmoderated, uncensored, unnarrated, uncontrolled, candid discussions   
   >   
   >>> Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born to Charles & Frances Jane Lutwidge-   
   >>> Dodgson at the All Saints parsonage(2W36:45,53N19:11), Morphany Lane   
   >>> Daresbury, Cheshire England on Friday 27 January 1832 at 3:45 AM LMT   
   >>> (AA/BR, time B/bio), baptised at All Saints Church(2W37:52,53N20:26).   
   >>   
   >>By what magick did you make it a 70-character-wide brick   
   >>text with hanging puntuation?   
   >   
   > force of habit, text-justification looks better without adding spaces   
      
   You could do it by hand on an IBM Executive typewriter -- it had   
   proportional type and fractional spaces.  You could do typeset-quality   
   stuff with a little effort.   
      
   But I digress...   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
      "My life outside of USENET is so full of love and kindness that I have   
       to come here to find the venom and bile that I crave."   --R. Damiani   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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