John Braham

On 23 May, 17:35, Adam Albright <A...@ABC.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007 07:06:55 -0700, Feliks Dzerzhinsky
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> >John Braham wrote:
> >> As genuinly amusing as your post is, you are burying genuine posts
> >> from people who actually need to discuss issues with your ani-vista
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> >> Please save these posts for joke sites, or forums designed for general
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> >> Thanks,
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> >He doesn't care. He's a professional Vista basher.
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> You kiddies are always so damn ignorant THAT is what is funny to more
> experienced users. Let me TRY to educate you dopes on how newsgroups
> work. For starters no matter how you are reading this, it originates
> in a microsoft.support NEWSGROUP, one of over a thousand such groups.
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> In order to see this post or any post in any newsgroup using a
> newsreader, which you should be using, and not Microsoft's crap, you
> first need to refresh headers to "see" a new list of new posts that
> are available. A header is nothing more than a title plus a line count
> which shows the number of lines in the post. Refreshing headers, means
> getting a new LIST of posts, it does NOT actually retreive the new
> posts and therefore takes next to no time and uses very little
> bandwith UNLESS and UNTIL you actually click on a post which then
> retreives the article.
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> So all you clueless fools that flap your gums and whine and bitch
> about threads you don't want to read about are only showing your total
> ignorance when you complain for two reasons.
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> 1. A header's list takes very little time or KB's to produce.
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> 2. YOU and nobody else decide if or not to click on a header and thus
> retrieve the actual post. Only then will you "waste" KB's, by
> downloading the underlying post of X number of lines.
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> Now don't you children feel stupid?
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Um no, no I don't feel stupid at all actually.

I'm using the usual google groups interface to view the posts, now by
defualt when I come to this group (and as this is the default setting
it will probobly be similar for many people) I see a page of the most
recent posts, whenever a new post come in all the ones below it get
shunted down one, the one at the bottom of the page being relegated to
the next page. The affect of this is, that when someone makes a post
with a technical issue they are far more likely to pick up a response
to their issue while their post is being displayed on the first page,
the older a post is, the less likely it is to get a response, so
putting joke posts up, however funny they are, reduces the chances
that genuine posts will get any attention from someone who may know
the answer.

So no, I'm not stupid, or a child, no-one gives a flying monkeys how
many KB's a header is unless they're using a slow connection so I'm
afraid it is you who has missed the point here.

Next time you need an ego trip to make yourself feel better I suggest
you don't pick on analyst programmers mate.

Regards,
John