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Contro
2013-01-19 23:29:21 UTC
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Hello!

What with the final book of WoT now out, I'm sure a lot of you will come
back to where the magic continued from the written page, and
encapsulated the magic of the internet...here!

Please post below so we can all say hello to one-another. It's been a
long time, but a lovely time, and I'd love to say hello to you all once
again!

I might even LOL!
--
Contro.
Dr. Nick is Dead
2013-01-31 02:24:54 UTC
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I've tried to post a few times here in the past months, but I don't know if GGroups plays nicely. I took off so many years to grow a proper braid suitable for tugging.

I'll lurk around a bit until I get my hands on the book.
Post by Contro
I might even LOL!
That'll be the day.


Dr.Nick
(or other pseudonym as required by local laws)
Chucky @ Work
2013-02-25 13:22:14 UTC
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:24:54 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Nick is Dead"
Post by Dr. Nick is Dead
I've tried to post a few times here in the past months, but I don't know if GGroups plays nicely. I took off so many years to grow a proper braid suitable for tugging.
Holy shitballs. Use your real name, we have this little thing called
netiquette.
Post by Dr. Nick is Dead
I'll lurk around a bit until I get my hands on the book.
Post by Contro
I might even LOL!
That'll be the day.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Post by Dr. Nick is Dead
Dr.Nick
(or other pseudonym as required by local laws)
That's "Drr".



- ***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Contro
2013-03-03 16:16:26 UTC
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Post by Chucky @ Work
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:24:54 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Nick is Dead"
Post by Dr. Nick is Dead
I've tried to post a few times here in the past months, but I don't know if GGroups plays nicely. I took off so many years to grow a proper braid suitable for tugging.
Holy shitballs. Use your real name, we have this little thing called
netiquette.
Post by Dr. Nick is Dead
I'll lurk around a bit until I get my hands on the book.
Post by Contro
I might even LOL!
That'll be the day.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Post by Dr. Nick is Dead
Dr.Nick
(or other pseudonym as required by local laws)
That's "Drr".
I don't know that I'm getting all the posts, as I didn't get this one!
Well, the one you'd replied to from Drr Nick!
--
Contro.
Chucky @ Work
2013-02-25 13:20:57 UTC
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Post by Contro
Hello!
What with the final book of WoT now out, I'm sure a lot of you will come
back to where the magic continued from the written page, and
encapsulated the magic of the internet...here!
Please post below so we can all say hello to one-another. It's been a
long time, but a lovely time, and I'd love to say hello to you all once
again!
I might even LOL!
Go to Hell!




- ***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Contro
2013-03-03 16:15:26 UTC
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Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Contro
Hello!
What with the final book of WoT now out, I'm sure a lot of you will come
back to where the magic continued from the written page, and
encapsulated the magic of the internet...here!
Please post below so we can all say hello to one-another. It's been a
long time, but a lovely time, and I'd love to say hello to you all once
again!
I might even LOL!
Go to Hell!
LOL couldn't help it! Although no one has turned up it seems....other
than us, of course.
--
Contro.
Chucky @ Work
2013-03-04 13:03:05 UTC
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Post by Contro
LOL couldn't help it! Although no one has turned up it seems....other
than us, of course.
Nobody else counts.



- ***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Contro
2013-03-04 20:02:58 UTC
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Post by Contro
LOL couldn't help it! Although no one has turned up it seems....other
than us, of course.
Nobody else counts.
This is true, and even us only to ten!
--
Contro.
Chucky @ Work
2013-03-05 06:04:36 UTC
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Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Contro
LOL couldn't help it! Although no one has turned up it seems....other
than us, of course.
Nobody else counts.
This is true, and even us only to ten!
Sir, you've been practicing.



- ***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Contro
2013-03-06 20:18:05 UTC
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Post by Contro
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Contro
LOL couldn't help it! Although no one has turned up it seems....other
than us, of course.
Nobody else counts.
This is true, and even us only to ten!
Sir, you've been practicing.
Yes, but ran out of fingers and thumbs!
--
Contro.
Joshua Crawford
2013-04-21 19:50:40 UTC
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Post by Contro
Hello!
Gday!
Post by Contro
What with the final book of WoT now out,
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's
books yet.

I'm back because Ilya sent me message on gtalk. I didn't realise
Usenet was still a thing. Surprised to see my eternal-september
account still works. So now I'm trying an Android newsreader
(it's called 'Newsreader' - real helpful when googling...).
Post by Contro
I'm sure a lot of you will come
back to where the magic continued from the written page, and
encapsulated the magic of the internet...here!
Please post below so we can all say hello to one-another. It's been a
long time, but a lovely time, and I'd love to say hello to you all once
again!
Hello!
Post by Contro
I might even LOL!
As if we could stop you :-)


I was thinking of you all a couple of weeks ago. Someone got into
my gmail and all my contacts got a spam. Sorry about
that.
--
bruce



----Android NewsGroup Reader----
http://www.piaohong.tk/newsgroup
David DeLaney
2013-04-22 05:51:06 UTC
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Post by Contro
What with the final book of WoT now out,
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's books yet.
We think, collectively, I think, you'll enjoy them. More Crap Happens In Them
Than In The Previous Six.

Last one came out in January this year.
I'm back because Ilya sent me message on gtalk. I didn't realise
Usenet was still a thing. Surprised to see my eternal-september
account still works. So now I'm trying an Android newsreader
(it's called 'Newsreader' - real helpful when googling...).
Dude, _eternal_-september? Clue? I was there for the start of that...
Post by Contro
I might even LOL!
As if we could stop you :-)
*moves quietly to one side, out of weaponized-lolcat cone of effect*

Dave
--
\/David DeLaney posting from ***@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
Chucky @ Work
2013-04-22 06:40:16 UTC
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Post by David DeLaney
Post by Contro
What with the final book of WoT now out,
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's books yet.
We think, collectively, I think, you'll enjoy them. More Crap Happens In Them
Than In The Previous Six.
... Books'-Worth of Events All Multiplied Together.




***@w (only, not really, since I am still on sick leave)
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Joshua Crawford
2013-04-23 00:43:35 UTC
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Post by David DeLaney
Post by Contro
What with the final book of WoT now out,
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's books yet.
We think, collectively, I think, you'll enjoy them. More Crap Happens In Them
Than In The Previous Six.
Last one came out in January this year.
Maybe I'll get them on Google Books. I've just looked them up and they're all there. Also noticed this, which I don't think I'll bother buying..

<https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Leigh_Butler_Wheel_of_Time_Reread?id=2e3sHOtIAKwC&feature=search_result>
Post by David DeLaney
I'm back because Ilya sent me message on gtalk. I didn't realise
Usenet was still a thing. Surprised to see my eternal-september
account still works. So now I'm trying an Android newsreader
(it's called 'Newsreader' - real helpful when googling...).
Actually, it was called 'Newsgroups Reader', but same diff. I don't think I'll use that much since editing a post on a touch screen is a pain in the arse. I'm on Google Groups now.
Post by David DeLaney
Dude, _eternal_-september? Clue? I was there for the start of that...
news.eternal-september.org, a free NNTP server and FQDN provider. I used to use it as the backend to my local leafnode server, from 2007 (when they were called motzarella) until I dropped out of Usenet in 2009.

The name is, of course, a reference to the influx of newbies disregarding netiquette onto Usenet each year in September. September never ended after either 1993, when AOL added their internet gateway; or 1996, when Windows 95 OSR2 (the first to include IE and Mail&News) was released.

I arrived online between the two, in 1995, via university.
Post by David DeLaney
Post by Contro
I might even LOL!
As if we could stop you :-)
*moves quietly to one side, out of weaponized-lolcat cone of effect*
10-189

--bruce, who wonders if google has some signature to append below. Can't see an option for it.
David DeLaney
2013-04-23 07:06:22 UTC
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Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by David DeLaney
Dude, _eternal_-september? Clue? I was there for the start of that...
news.eternal-september.org, a free NNTP server and FQDN provider. I used to
use it as the backend to my local leafnode server, from 2007 (when they were
called motzarella) until I dropped out of Usenet in 2009.
Yes, I know - sorry for the ambiguous phrasing, I was offering a clue, not
asking for one.
Post by Joshua Crawford
The name is, of course, a reference to the influx of newbies disregarding
netiquette onto Usenet each year in September. September never ended after
either 1993, when AOL added their internet gateway; or 1996, when Windows 95
OSR2 (the first to include IE and Mail&News) was released.
1993 was Delphi.com; AOL was something like mid-1994, -after- the Canter &
Siegel Green Card spam, because when it showed up the very-early-alphabetically
alt.* groups got flooded because it didn't use a real newsreader and didn't
do anything about making news.announce.newusers or the other introductory
groups come first...
Post by Joshua Crawford
--bruce, who wonders if google has some signature to append below. Can't see
an option for it.
You probably are supposed to insert one yourself. Google's not a real
newsreader either, and has been trying various ways to stay not-a-real-one in
differing manners over the last few years, apparently to locate maximum
annoyance value.

Dave
--
\/David DeLaney posting from ***@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
Joshua Crawford
2013-04-23 08:27:41 UTC
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Post by David DeLaney
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by David DeLaney
Dude, _eternal_-september? Clue? I was there for the start of that...
news.eternal-september.org, a free NNTP server and FQDN provider. I used to
use it as the backend to my local leafnode server, from 2007 (when they were
called motzarella) until I dropped out of Usenet in 2009.
Yes, I know - sorry for the ambiguous phrasing, I was offering a clue, not
asking for one.
You know which servers I relayed through, and when? Ambiguous again.. :-)

I just like to drop in this kind of info for anyone else who might be interested.
Post by David DeLaney
Post by Joshua Crawford
The name is, of course, a reference to the influx of newbies disregarding
netiquette onto Usenet each year in September. September never ended after
either 1993, when AOL added their internet gateway; or 1996, when Windows 95
OSR2 (the first to include IE and Mail&News) was released.
1993 was Delphi.com; AOL was something like mid-1994, -after- the Canter &
Siegel Green Card spam, because when it showed up the very-early-alphabetically
alt.* groups got flooded because it didn't use a real newsreader and didn't
do anything about making news.announce.newusers or the other introductory
groups come first...
It was a couple of years before my time, so I'll bow to your superior memory. I always thought it referred to '96 because of Windows having internet out of the box, but mid-00's I started seeing people refer to AOL in '93.
Post by David DeLaney
Post by Joshua Crawford
--bruce, who wonders if google has some signature to append below. Can't see
an option for it.
You probably are supposed to insert one yourself. Google's not a real
newsreader either, and has been trying various ways to stay not-a-real-one in
differing manners over the last few years, apparently to locate maximum
annoyance value.
I've used Groups various times over the years (since it was Deja), and the interface has changed since last time, so I was wondering if it had one saved even if I couldn't see the option to edit it.

Google doesn't improve Groups because they've always had in-house alternatives (gmail lists, wave, google+). They only bought it for the years of data, and continue to keep it limping for the same reason.

--bruce
David DeLaney
2013-04-23 18:11:02 UTC
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Post by David DeLaney
1993 was Delphi.com; AOL was something like mid-1994, -after- the Canter &
Siegel Green Card spam, because when it showed up the
very-early-alphabetically
Post by David DeLaney
alt.* groups got flooded because it didn't use a real newsreader and didn't
do anything about making news.announce.newusers or the other introductory
groups come first...
It was a couple of years before my time, so I'll bow to your superior memory.
I always thought it referred to '96 because of Windows having internet out of
the box, but mid-00's I started seeing people refer to AOL in '93.
Not _all_ memory; I, er, wrote a FAQ at the time. Due partly to my newbieness
and innocence; I probably wouldn't have if I'd been a ten-year vet by then.
See .sig .

The AOL date shift did take a while to show up; I'm thinking that some single
misstatement of its time started getting referred to and echoed into an entire
generation of users convinced that AOL was what set September off. But it
wasn't. Sort of like all the good quotes getting hung off of Shakespeare and
Churchill and Twain and Wilde...

Dave
--
\/David DeLaney posting from ***@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
Chucky @ Work
2013-04-23 07:43:23 UTC
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:43:35 -0700 (PDT), Joshua Crawford
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by David DeLaney
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's books yet.
We think, collectively, I think, you'll enjoy them. More Crap Happens In Them
Than In The Previous Six.
Last one came out in January this year.
Maybe I'll get them on Google Books. I've just looked them up and they're all there. Also noticed this, which I don't think I'll bother buying..
<https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Leigh_Butler_Wheel_of_Time_Reread?id=2e3sHOtIAKwC&feature=search_result>
Dear God.
Post by Joshua Crawford
The name is, of course, a reference to the influx of newbies
disregarding netiquette onto Usenet each year in September.
September never ended after either 1993, when AOL added
their internet gateway; or 1996, when Windows 95 OSR2
(the first to include IE and Mail&News) was released.
I arrived online between the two, in 1995, via university.
Good times.



***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Chucky @ Work
2013-04-22 06:39:08 UTC
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:50:40 +1000 (AEST), Joshua Crawford
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Contro
What with the final book of WoT now out,
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's
books yet.
Ahh, that answers my question in the Party Thread, then.

You should take them on, they were good.
Post by Joshua Crawford
I'm back because Ilya sent me message on gtalk. I didn't realise
Usenet was still a thing. Surprised to see my eternal-september
account still works. So now I'm trying an Android newsreader
(it's called 'Newsreader' - real helpful when googling...).
Hee. I reinstalled Freeagent, seems to work OK. And the monkeyhouse
lives!
Post by Joshua Crawford
I was thinking of you all a couple of weeks ago. Someone got into
my gmail and all my contacts got a spam. Sorry about
that.
That just means I am not one of your contacts. Apparently.

Or I have you in my killfile.




***@w (only, not really, since I am still on sick leave)
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Joshua Crawford
2013-04-23 00:56:26 UTC
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Post by Chucky @ Work
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:50:40 +1000 (AEST), Joshua Crawford
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Contro
What with the final book of WoT now out,
I didn't know that. Serious. I haven't read any of Sanderson's
books yet.
Ahh, that answers my question in the Party Thread, then.
You should take them on, they were good.
I'll try to find the time. I don't read much these days; there's too much crap on g+ I have to wade through.
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Joshua Crawford
I'm back because Ilya sent me message on gtalk. I didn't realise
Usenet was still a thing. Surprised to see my eternal-september
account still works. So now I'm trying an Android newsreader
(it's called 'Newsreader' - real helpful when googling...).
Hee. I reinstalled Freeagent, seems to work OK. And the monkeyhouse
lives!
*slings poo*
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Joshua Crawford
I was thinking of you all a couple of weeks ago. Someone got into
my gmail and all my contacts got a spam. Sorry about
that.
That just means I am not one of your contacts. Apparently.
Probably an old address.
Post by Chucky @ Work
Or I have you in my killfile.
Or spam folder.

--bruce, annoyed that ggroups doesn't have signatures.
Chucky @ Work
2013-04-23 07:46:00 UTC
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:56:26 -0700 (PDT), Joshua Crawford
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Joshua Crawford
I'm back because Ilya sent me message on gtalk. I didn't realise
Usenet was still a thing. Surprised to see my eternal-september
account still works. So now I'm trying an Android newsreader
(it's called 'Newsreader' - real helpful when googling...).
Hee. I reinstalled Freeagent, seems to work OK. And the monkeyhouse
lives!
*slings poo*
*gets poo in mouth, spits and laughs good-naturedly*
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Joshua Crawford
I was thinking of you all a couple of weeks ago. Someone got into
my gmail and all my contacts got a spam. Sorry about
that.
That just means I am not one of your contacts. Apparently.
Probably an old address.
Man, it'd have to be pretty old to not have my gmail or kolumbus
addresses there ... and those are the ones I still use.
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Chucky @ Work
Or I have you in my killfile.
Or spam folder.
Hee.




***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
Joshua Crawford
2013-04-23 09:27:31 UTC
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Post by Chucky @ Work
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:56:26 -0700 (PDT), Joshua Crawford
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Joshua Crawford
I was thinking of you all a couple of weeks ago. Someone got into
my gmail and all my contacts got a spam. Sorry about
that.
That just means I am not one of your contacts. Apparently.
Probably an old address.
Man, it'd have to be pretty old to not have my gmail or kolumbus
addresses there ... and those are the ones I still use.
I don't know why your gmail's not there. I'm surprised Google doesn't harvest it from this group. The only one in my contacts is Janica's kolumbus from emails five years ago.
Post by Chucky @ Work
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Chucky @ Work
Or I have you in my killfile.
Or spam folder.
Hee.
Hah!

--bruce
Chucky @ Work
2013-04-24 06:23:08 UTC
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:27:31 -0700 (PDT), Joshua Crawford
Post by Joshua Crawford
Post by Chucky @ Work
Man, it'd have to be pretty old to not have my gmail or kolumbus
addresses there ... and those are the ones I still use.
I don't know why your gmail's not there. I'm surprised Google
doesn't harvest it from this group. The only one in my
contacts is Janica's kolumbus from emails five years ago.
Yar, we still use that one, although to be honest I don't think Janica
checks it very often.



***@w
--
13 of 12, the CMM Collective
CHOW:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/chow-a-dance-with-dragons/
Give a hoot, read my book:
http://stchucky.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/arsebook-my-rear-in-status-2011/
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