On Sunday, July 6, 2014 1:45:32 AM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/5/2014 7:40 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > I've gotten it but the people who did it claimed that they thought they
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> > were posting to Usenet. One person used a different nym than she uses
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> I have done this several times and boy is it embarrassing. This was
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> caused by the Thunderbird program defaulting to the email address
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> instead of the newsgroup. The last few updates would do this. You have
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> to manually change the defaults. It's quite a major boo boo for the
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> developers. My assumption is they're not really into newsgroups.
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We are dinosaurs. Almost no one is "really into newsgroups" anymore.
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> Unfortunately, some folks do use their real email address.
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I use my real address so that anyone who wishes to email me can do
so, and I never have problems. I have been doing so since 1996.

A phone solicitor just called and in a heavy Indian subcontinent
voice said, "Hi. My name is Jack..."
I told him, "Your name is not Jack."
It took him a moment to respond, "OK."
As he tried to continue I said, "Don't ever call here again, and
your name is not Jack." Then I hung up. I'm almost certain that
his name was not Jack. He's probably never even met anyone named
Jack.

--Bryan