On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
Michael Black wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, isojoern wrote:
Hi there,
I have a DX-375 from the SHACK and the power button doesn't always work
(sometimes I have to press it 20 times to fire it up...).
Is there a resonable fix?
Thanks, Joern
The problem is that the power and sleep buttons are both attached to a
bracket as thin as a piece of paper. The part that connects the power
button to the bracket has probably broken. I contacted Radio Shack to
get a replacement part, but they say that they can't help me. Yes, it's
really irritating.
The problem is that it's fourteen years later, so your reply has no
relevance to the original poster. Chances are pretty good he's not even here any more.
If you've got something to say, don't use an old thread to say it.
Michael
Part of the beauty of Usenet is its timeless nature. Let's revel in the
fact that there is a place where ancient thread necrology is even possible.
I have noticed that you must have your feelers out pretty intensively, as
you respond to many resurrected threads admonishing the necromancers not to
practice their dark arts. May I ask, what's the harm to you?
Because it's a bug at google. When google took over the archive from
dejanews, you couldn't reply to old messages. Then one time when they
changed the interface, to be more useful for their own "groups", they
allowed replies to old posts. People like me complained, and that bug was
fixed. Then another iteration of the interface, and the bug was back.
The google idiots think usenet is what they see at google, I doubt they
even know that they are not posting to a "web board". So they think
everyone will see it like they do, all the messages on one page. I doubt
most of the time they even notice that they are replying to an old post,
though I can't figure out why they are looking for old posts to reply to.
The "excuse" that replying to an ancient thread will keep the information
together is crazy. Nobody will find the threads without a search, and
that will turn up the other threads. When google was useful as an archive
of Usenet, I'd have to check multiple threads to find the actual
information, the same is true now.
ANd it gets worse. It's not just google-idiots replying to old posts.
They often don't quote what they are replying to, leaving no context, they
are too often replying with something that no longer has value ("it's time
to update your computer", when the computer was nice and new back in
1998), they may not even do a proper reply, so it looks like a new
thread.
And once they post, there are others who aren't paying attention either,
so they add to the resurrected thread. There was one in
sci.electronics.repair a week or so ago where back in the original thread
(only five or so years old) the original poster had even posted a followup
saying he'd fixed the problem and giving details. Yet someone felt the
need to reply to that old thread, and then others jumped in, not noticing
it was a zombie post they were replying to. That instance was a joke,
since some of the original posters actually replied in the resurrected
thread, not even remembering they'd done so in the past.
A sad example is the infamous post where Linus Torvald announced Linux.
The first time the google bug appeared, vandals decided they needed to
tack their stupidity onto that thread. I assume because google put up a
timeline of usenet, and so made it easy for the vandals to find the
thread. The bug came back, and that thread was further vanadalized, it's
just idiots thinking it's amusing to reply as if Linus was still reading
the minix newsgroup, as if he'd just posted last week. So a historical
thread is now cluttered with endless posts that have nothing to do with
it. And the minix newsgroup just ends up with replies to old posts,
rather than relevant on topic new posts.
For "dead" newsgroups, many of the new posts are from these google idiots,
wanting to know if that thing from 1995 is still forsale, or whatever.
There is no reason to reply to old posts. I have posts going back to 1996
saved on various hard drives, but I don't reply to them. This is a google
problem inflicted on the rest of usenet.
Michael