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From: 1jam on 29 Jul 2010 16:37
JT wrote:

> On 29/07/10 17:25, Harold Stevens wrote:
>> Message-ID: <4c517c5b$0$22944$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl> JT:
>>
>>
>>> No NG's, no postings ;-)
>>>
>> Ah, but there was always Fidonet at 1200 baud. :)
>>
>>
> Makes you wonder: would OP also be sending unsolicited and useless
> postcards in the pre-wired era (i.e. when he'd have to pay for it)?
>


sheesh who cares guys.. so he made a test msg. why you guys generate all
this noise about it. ignore it... it says "just testing" afterall.
From: Paul J Gans on 29 Jul 2010 16:51
JT <reply_only_to(a)newsgroup.nl> wrote:
>On 28/07/10 22:20, Paul J Gans wrote:
>> Harold Stevens <wookie(a)jimbo.localdomain> wrote:
>>
>>> In <8baus3Fg3gU1(a)mid.individual.net> ray:
>>>
>>
>>> [Snip...]
>>>
>>
>>>> You may be 'testing', but why bother if you have nothing to say?
>>>>
>>
>>> Instead, they should use alt.test (etc.) dump groups. Kids these days.
>>>
>> It was always this way.
>>
>>
>Beg to differ here ;-)

>I remember times when we did not post test messages to newsgroups
>whatsoever.

I don't. Must be increasing age on my part.

--
--- Paul J. Gans
From: Paul J Gans on 29 Jul 2010 16:56
Harold Stevens <wookie(a)jimbo.localdomain> wrote:
>Message-ID: <4c517c5b$0$22944$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl> JT:

>> No NG's, no postings ;-)

>Ah, but there was always Fidonet at 1200 baud. :)

Yup. And there were test messages sent to groups back then.
And folks complained. So alt.test was created to handle it.
But most newbies didn't know about alt.test, so it didn't
do much good.

That's the problem here. I've found it best to simply respond
to the test message and let it go. More time is wasted blasting
the newbie without useful result.

--
--- Paul J. Gans
From: quasar on 29 Jul 2010 17:52
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:56:45 +0000 (UTC), Paul J Gans <gansno(a)panix.com>
wrote:

>Harold Stevens <wookie(a)jimbo.localdomain> wrote:
>>Message-ID: <4c517c5b$0$22944$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl> JT:
>
>>> No NG's, no postings ;-)
>
>>Ah, but there was always Fidonet at 1200 baud. :)
>
>Yup. And there were test messages sent to groups back then.
>And folks complained. So alt.test was created to handle it.
>But most newbies didn't know about alt.test, so it didn't
>do much good.
>
>That's the problem here. I've found it best to simply respond
>to the test message and let it go. More time is wasted blasting
>the newbie without useful result.


This is a far far better job than the tripe that Stevens jerk put out.
From: Harold Stevens on 29 Jul 2010 17:56
In <uut356h1a4p05874nj2tv8vck2f4rj2ia4(a)4ax.com> quasar:

[Snip...]

Two nymshifts inside an hour. Bye!

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