Roy East wrote:
Please don't top-post. And leave a bit of white space between
paragraphs. Thanks for your consideration.
> So what you are saying it's this Newsgroup (and/or similar)? I started
> getting more the day after i came on here????
Spammers have been harvesting email address from Usenet posts for years.
You posted with yours, in the From: field of your headers.
You got harvested. You are on the spammers' lists now.
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From: "Butch Casserole" <Butch_Casserole@kombat.it>
|
| I don't get any and never have done, how's about that then?
|
Cool !
You are lucky.
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Roy East wrote:
> So what you are saying it's this Newsgroup (and/or similar)?
That's exactly what Monsieur Shagnasty is implying in his post below.
>I started getting more the day after i came on here????
Self-explanatory then innit?
And further to owd Shagnasty's suggestion concerning top posting/bottom
posting, I personally consider it a pain in the arse to reply to a top
poster or decipher WTF he/she at times is even on about. Whilst I'm at it,
the lack of "snipping" worthless crap text from ones responce to a post also
gets up my snoz. Why include previous posters text in your reply unless
it's relative? Not only is it a complete waste of bandwidth, (ie: ending up
with a post of 10 or more KB's of unnecessary content) it also means one has
to scroll down, peel back the skin and pulp to get to the core. If you
can't get to grips with sorting the top posting habit, Google for "OE
Quotefix", that'll do it for you. After all, at the end of the day, it's a
simple matter of Usenet etiquette which IMHO is gradually being eroded
today.
HTH
Rant over, back to my popcorn and movie!
John Dredla wrote:
> Its only a matter of time
Aye, is that a fact? I can assure you it'll be a very loooooooooooooong
time.
David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Butch Casserole" <Butch_Casserole@kombat.it>
>
>> I don't get any and never have done, how's about that then?
>>
> Cool !
Cool Casserole, is me!
>
> You are lucky.
As you well know, blundering blindly around Usenet is akin to launching the
lifeboat without inserting the bung prior to launching, wouldn't you say?
AMUN wrote:
> "Butch Casserole" <Butch_Casserole@kombat.it> wrote in message
>> I don't get any and never have done, how's about that then?
>
> Now, now.
> If you are feeling left out by not getting any spam, just post the
> address you want it sent to, and I'm sure somebody will oblige you.
> <g>
Heheheheh, yes indeedy I'm sure they would oblige, what one inserts before
and after the "@" in their handle is their business.
Butch Casserole wrote:
[about top-posting]
> If you can't get to grips with sorting the top posting habit, Google
> for "OE Quotefix", that'll do it for you.
That will help. Still, it cannot change the mentality of people who want
to type while looking at the paper on the desk between their wrists.
Yeah, that's how I see top-posting, like viewing a letter on my desk in
front of the keyboard. and I'm writing along the top margin. Like I have
to move my wrist to see the quote.
> After all, at the end of the day, it's a simple matter of Usenet
> etiquette which IMHO is gradually being eroded today.
...on or about the time Outlook Express added news support, I believe.
--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Vista
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:04:02 -0000, "Butch Casserole"
<Butch_Casserole@kombat.it> wrote:
> Whilst I'm at it,
>the lack of "snipping" worthless crap text from ones responce to a post also
>gets up my snoz.
I agree wholeheartedly.
I topost when appropriate, and intersperse where appropriate.
Sorry I'm new to all this. What is top posting? Also I don't understand:
"From: field of your headers." Please will someone try to answer without
being 'Sarky'
>Spammers have been harvesting email >address from Usenet posts for years.
>You posted with yours, in the From: field >of your headers.
This is top posting. This reply to your post is written 'on
top' of it. Some people dislike top posting. Now look at
the bottom of your post.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:05:13 -0000, "Roy East"
<royeast@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>Sorry I'm new to all this. What is top posting? Also I don't understand:
>"From: field of your headers." Please will someone try to answer without
>being 'Sarky'
>
>>Spammers have been harvesting email >address from Usenet posts for years.
>>You posted with yours, in the From: field >of your headers.
>
>
This is bottom posting. This reply is written below the
original post. Some people dislike bottom posting. All
this proves is that you can't please all of the people all
of the time, so don't lose sleep over it.
The From: field is probably hidden on your news reader. I
use Free Agent and you can toggle between showing all the
heading of a post or not showing all the heading by pressing
the 'h' on the keyboard. If you choose to show all those
cryptic header items you must find the toggle switch on your
news reader. The From: field is but one of the fields that
will show up if you toggle it 'on'.
Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), FL
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