On 3/24/2021 11:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 1:15:15 PM UTC-10, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:30:36 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 11:28:22 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:14:13 GMT, >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 20:34 24 Mar 2021, Bruce said:
>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:29:50 GMT, >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 03:34 24 Mar 2021, Bruce said:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If cents are more important than quality, everything's
>>>>>>>> different. Maybe you can find a place where they sell days old
>>>>>>>> bread for even less than $1? Or those big carrots that people
>>>>>>>> buy for their horses? They're cheap too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -- The real Bruce posts with uni-berlin.de - individual.net
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good to see individual.net is still going strong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Better if Agent lets the newserver use its own qualified domain
>>>>>>> name -- because viewers here can filter for it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Agent doesn't allow you to filter on news server,
>>>>>
>>>>> however other newsreaders do, such as mine. Agent should be able not to
>>>>> insert 4ax.com for the post's domain name.
>>>> I don't know what that is. I don't see it. But I might switch to
>>>> Xnews. I've used it before.
>>>> --
>>>> The real Bruce posts with uni-berlin.de - individual.net
>>>
>>> I'd use a gmail address as a user name/email and post on Google Groups. If someone tries to use your user name, report it as abuse to Google. Well, okay then.
>> Google does not even pay attention to their own abuse of their own
>> employees...
>>
>> RFC has a not atypical contingent of truly crazy posters, but those
>> are not the problem. I don't mind the lunatic fringe or the whacko
>> political agenda types, but some folks go to a LOT of trouble to drop
>> all these extraneous bullshit "guess who I am imitating today?" posts.
>> That is its own branch of WTF loon.
>>
>> I have never seen a group on any community platform/forum even going
>> back to the early 80s, with as much nymshifting dreck as this one
>> always has. Facebook is a world unto itself, but I gave that up so
>> long ago, I have no idea what's there these days.
>>
>> I keep imagining these schmucks as someone like Donald Trump in
>> tightie whities, sitting in a rumpled bed with a cell phone and a Big
>> Mac and/or maybe his dick in his hand...
>
> Usenet just ain't usenet anymore. Back in the old days, the posters were mostly from military, educational, scientific, research, institutions. They used the facilities available through their institutions and therefor, were in fact, representing their organizations. My guess is that any bad behavior was easily squelched by being held responsible for your words. These days, all those right and proper people and replaced by the socially, morally, and mentally, inept. Back in the old days, bad behavior would be going off topic. That's the breaks.
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/rec.food...m/XKTmFKanfKYJ
I guess you can blame AOL for that.