Sheldon wrote:
> Sheryl Rosen wrote:
>>
>> nancree wrote:
>>
>>>> Also, Google does not carry your e-mail address on your posts. So
>>>> if you need a private reply (some of you ask for that), you'll
>>>> have to include your address in the body of your post.
>>>
>>>
>>> Incorrect, merely demonstrating that you don't know how to use the
>>> Google interface. I suppose that's why you don't bother with quoting
>>> when you reply.
>>>
>>> Brian--------
>>> -----------------------
>>> Again, your post is useless. If you have a helpful suggestion,
>>> please make it. Otherwise, don't bother me. (Google Groups does
>>> *not* carry a full e-mail address for the e-mail it posts. They
>>> are munged. Nancree
>>>
>>
>> You can hit "Show Options" and it will show you the return address
>> on any post you care to do this on. This is the default. It's always
>> available, you just have to click on it.
>>
>> I was playing around with it at work the other day (the only place I
>> use Google to read RFC) and you can actually change the default
>> settings to display all posts with header info visible, including
>> the poster's return address, if you so choose.
>
> I only just recently subscribed to Google for Newsgroups, about a week
> ago. When I subscribed they asked me to supply a password, an email
> address, and a nickname. I could have easily chosen to supply a
> munged email address and a nicknmae that no one would recognize as
> being me... same as I could with my AOL acct. or with any other
> ISP/Newsreader. I have no doubt whatsoever that many, regardless of
> how they read Newsgroups, whether through Google or otherwise, use
> munged and/or multiple IDs... phoney baloney is just a fact of
> internet life. But I do not do that, never have, never will... I'm
> exactly who/how I purport myself to be.
>
> Now that I've been using Google long enough to familiarize myself with
> it I don't find it much different from using AOL's Newsgroups feature,
> was just that I was so familiar with AOL's that I could race through
> the posts and make my replys with no effort whatsoever, even while
> multi-tasking. I've used Internet Explorer's Newsgroups feature in
> the past too, Google is easier. I even down loaded the Mozilla
> Newsreader a few days ago and tried it, it sucks, big time, extremely
> cumbersome.
>
> I have my high speed connection through a local cable company, I can
> easily use it as my only ISP, but I use AOL for lots more, not just to
> access Newsgroups... to me it's well worth keeping it for only
> $15/month... 50¢/day.
> Anyone doesn't like AOL, that's their choice, I like it... Baskin &
> Robins has 31 flavors, why do you think that is?
>
> I don't like that AOL is going to abandon Usenet, especially without
> even so much as a by your leave... no explanation whatsoever. But for
> now I will continue using AOL... I'm positive many will not... AOL
> will pay a large price for their fercocktah decision.
>
> Anyway, anyone can munge their ID, and to any degree.
>
> Sheldon

But, Sheldon, you don't get a sig anymore!

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