Tiberius

Google groups is not a good way to use newsgroups.

If you have vista, the newsgroup server is already preloaded in windows
mail.


"John Braham" <john_braham@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1180023401.201985.194700@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> 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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>> <fdzerzhin...@kgb.su> wrote:
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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
>> >> trolls.
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>> >> Please save these posts for joke sites, or forums designed for general
>> >> banter.
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >> John
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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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
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> 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
>