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"Michael Lawson" wrote:

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"cainbryan" wrote:

Wow, I'm sure glad I don't feed this blog into my e-mail !

This is a news group not a Blog.

What, you didn't know that newsgroups were
subsumed into the blogosphere by the Internet
Act of 2005? ;-)

People do not seem to understand the purpose of Usenet, which is to
post
news. Naturally, any on topic information pertaining to the news
group
charter is also OK to post.

Most people including myself also include editorial content along
with
the news and information as such often needs context to be most
useful.
Some people then go off the reservation with total or nearly total
editorial content (opinion) for which Blogs were created. The people
that think this is a Blog space belong in the kill file along with
the
off topic abusers.

I hate to say this, since it will classify me as an
old timer, but the people using the net would
do well to have a sense of history about items
such as usenet, gopher and the www. I'm not
talking about taking classes, per se, but
understanding the difference between a blog,
an online column, usenet and website forums
would be useful.

--Mike L.