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On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Michael Black Let's be clear on this. Lynx gives access both to the no-frames content and to the frames...
Today I started putting old stuff on my server - and had to notice that data is...
Well.... as it happens, this is one of those convoluted cases where it looks a lot worse than it really is. Though, if I were on a general crossposts are evil rampage, I would have to host my own petard.
Hey. I'm running Kubuntu linux, and I wanted to compile my own kernel so I'd have the right sources and...
The person I was responding to directly appears to be a sci.geo.geology In that set of groups, that pseudonym appears in sci.geo.geology alone or in xposts into it. So presumably Tom knew what s-he was doing in keeping the xpost going.
The posts are at least marginally on topic in alt.religion.islam, especially given that Tom's buttertion was that an incipient Islamic uprising is why Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979.
As for sci.space.policy ... "off topic" ceased to be a meaningful term applied to the group some time ago. I try to be better than average on topicality there, which is not saying a whole lot. I thought you read s.s.p, anyways. I shouldn't have to be telling you that...
As to the question of TOS violations; I didn't add those newsgroups nor was I trolling nor attempting to enrage participants in other newsgroups. The only newsgroup in which the thread arguably is off topic is sci.geo.geology, but a bunch of its participants including the guy who started the thread are sci.geo.geology regulars. If other sci.geo.geology posters object to the crossposts they can complain about them. We just had a discussion on that topic and responsibility for things you crosspost last week in those groups... I would stop xposting a thread to an off topic group if its users complained.
Responding further to your last point above:
That's not what happened here, Jim. Mark trolled a relevant thread about SQL software into news.groups . He didn't make a complaint, he trolled a thread in. The thread's initiators didn't do it. He did. And he out and out admitted he was doing it to pee us off, so he knew it was net abuse when he was doing it.
As I pointed out to him, he could and should have asked either by posting to news.groups or email. Flaming instead of asking would have been bad. Flaming by trolling another conversation into news.groups in order to make a point, goes beyond bad into extreme hostility.
That's absurd. There's no open-source implimentation of Volcano 1.0, the obsidian-formation protocol. Linus would never allow non-GPLed lenses to be incorporated into the kernel, not even for good sushi and sake. No matter how much more clearly you want to see the Muslim boycott from orbit, you're going to have to stick to VXWorks, Embedded Oracle, and Ikonos in order to monitor the CFV.
-george william herbert
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