Re: OT: was Re: Basic setup help

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima@127.0.0.1)
Date: 04/16/02 

From: Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:04:14 +0000 (UTC)

b e g i n 6 6 6 Al Smith:
> Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>>
>> begin 666 <ahall@no-spam-to-world.std.com>:
>
> which is interpreted by netscape as:

So why are you using a web browser to read Usenet?

> It's quite irritating to have to do extra steps to read what
> you have to say;

Well, I'm sure the world won't end if you miss a couple of
pearls of my infinite wisdom. So,

> ... pressing "next" is quite easy

why don't you do just that.

...as some friendly advice, I would suggest
> that you might consider replacing your begin 666 if you wish
> that what you write is to be easily readable by a wider
> audience than at present.

No and no, in that order. Audience with a clue is welcome to use
non-b0rked software (on general principles, not because they may
or may not want to read my messages). Audience without a clue is
of little interest to me, they can FOAD (or not, what do I care).

Dima 

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