From: info@turneraudio.com.au   
      
   I was thinking the same thing Pat until I realized he said 78 characters per   
   line, and not for the entire post!    
      
   Jim    
   Wd5JKO    
      
   Well Jim, It seemed to me someone was complaining yet again that my posts were   
   too long. And of course I have zero idea how to control the length of lines at   
   my end; I am somewhat unskilled in IT practice, but maybe not as unskilled as   
   those who invent    
   and present us with means of communication without full instructions about how   
   to use it all.   
      
   I have found I cannot be a part of Twatter because it is restricted to 140   
   characters per post.   
      
   I find Farsepuke a complete mystery. I tried joining 4 years ago, and nobody   
   contacted me for 18mths, so I quit the damn place, and deleted my profile.   
   Then recently I re-joined to be able to post to a guy about a health issue.   
   I was inundated by inbox messages saying I had notifications and messages so   
   I'd login and find there was zero messages. I did manage to talk to the fellow   
   who had posted. Nothing for month now. So, my last post at Farcepuke tells   
   everyone ppl to simply    
   email me with regular email, and not to try thru Farcepuke.   
   Nobody has, which indicates NOBODY can be friends; the idea of "friends" is   
   just another bowl of puke at Farcepuke.   
      
   It seems to me that the best form of the news groups was once before Google   
   took over Usenet Groups, and changed all the format.   
      
   Rec.audio.tubes in 2003 was an extremely lively place where I sometimes wrote   
   to 20 ppl who asked questions about tube amplifiers et all.   
   It was not moderated, so it soon attracted the most vicious of people who   
   enjoyed their silly word wars rather than enjoy the brotherhood of man. So   
   slowly the thin skinned who expected politeness all vanished. I stayed, and to   
   make matters easier for    
   tube enthusiasts I created my website with those who didn't know very much in   
   mind.    
      
   I am not sure the Internet is getting any better. Last monday night's ABC Four   
   Corners program in Australia of 1 hour was all about Facebook, oops, I meant   
   Farcepuke, and how everyone is tracked and watched, and targeted by ppl   
   wanting to sell stuff,    
   mostly crap. Then there's the fake news and the "viral spread of posts" which   
   are often of -155% relevance to any intelligent person; the level of BULLSHIT   
   has risen so high now.   
      
   So it seems humans never really progress while crowing about "progress" to   
   state of worseness, while sometimes moaning about 78 characters.    
   For the last 8 years at least my presence here has dwindled; I think many   
   fellows who built tube gear may have been stopped by the GFC in 2008, or else   
   they all got old and lost interest. I made a business out of a hobby, and   
   shared it all with everyone.    
   It wasn't very lucrative, so I was happy to quit business in 2012 and take the   
   old age pension because it paid twice as much. Those many customers who said   
   they really loved tube gear would not pay more than peanuts.   
   I wasn't bitter, because I'd worked hard enough in my 30s to pay off my house,   
   so in my 50s I could afford to do a low pay job because I didn't have to pay   
   rent.    
   Maybe that's enough background information from me; I try to not have a single   
   malicious molecule within my humble self.   
      
   I'll try to have a good Easter, you should try that too.   
   I did have both knee joints replaced 7 weeks ago; Its probably true I have a   
   high pain threshold. But I should get back in my bicycle next Saturday, and   
   that will be heaven. I am not obsessed with the Internet, and I have other   
   interests - called living.   
      
   Keep as well as Unkle Fate allows,   
   Patrick Turner.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)