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Lostgallifreyan writes Eternal September is a namd ? I have read in contexts of posters naming some systems with a bad hit-rate for troll sources. Yes, RIP news.demon.co.uk. ES is just fine. Freenews.netfront.net also works, as does nntp.aioe.org (although take care with their well-intentioned rules). Even though they say they don't carry binaries, ES certainly does allow access to a few binary NGs, as does freenews.netfront.net. -- Ian |
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On 11/7/2014 5:58 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m3h6rc$871$1@dont- email.me: The best thing to do is ignore him - it will make him madder, but the lack of attention will drive him crazy. If he's on BT he'll have to get another ISP. Same goes for Demon who have already cancelled Usenet as BT are about to do. UK ISP's seem to be dropping Usenet like a ton of ****, without advance warning of any worth, and maybe all within a very few weeks of they haven't already done it. It seems to me that maybe the recent rush of govt demands that they clean up the piracy uses of Usenet, combined with ever increasing surveillance of ordinary people means that the only cheap safe way for an ISP to avoid looking like it's antagonistic to the new secret-policing style of UK government is to drop, IMMEDIATELY, all subsystems that might make them look bad. There may be more innocent explanations, like Usenet going to the dogs generally, public perception genrally favouring forums on the web. Judging by the recent squabbles here that is not hard to exaplain. Recent;ly, one night, I say one silly thing ina post otherwise reasonable, and TWO people try to jump down my throat. For a fleeting moment I was daft enough to think it might be about me, but no, I just went silent, looked the next morning, and those two people were at each other for most of the night in my absence! Anyway, I won't be paying for Usenet, so I'll be out of those people's hair. I'll jump before I'm pushed. If I can get an ISP with decent web hosting for no greater cost than I am paying to BT now for a heavily capped service with no web host, and very soon, no Usenet, I'll go as soon as I can. It's been helpful to me to have access easily to some knowledgeable people willing to post thoughts rapidly, in direct response to things I ask, and I'll miss that. On the other hand, some of those people have pointed out that good texts usually get a better guide to someone wanting an answer, if not as immediately. Usually I just trawl the web and look for multiple sources before whittling down to the best that works for me. It looks like the net's good times are over, it's likely to get harder after being easy for about ten years. I'm not going to try to speculate about why, but I know that if Usenet is no longer possible without a lot of additional expense equivalent to a new utility service, then I'm out. There are plenty of free usenet servers out there. I use eternal-september.org; no binary groups but that's fine with me. And their retention policy is decent. I suggest you try them out. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry, AI0K ================== |
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On 11/7/2014 7:34 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Percy Picacity wrote in : There are a number of good free text group newsservers, such as Eternal September, and at least one paid-for one with a good reputation that only costs 10GBP a year (news.individual.net). So I hope we don't have to lose you. Thankyou. :) I will look into it. Two caveats though... The one free one I looked at so far isn't free if I want to post. The other is that the truly free ones may be a haunt of trolls, Eternal September is a namd I have read in contexts of posters naming some systems with a bad hit-rate for troll sources. Ideally I'll try to find a paid service that is cheap, quiet, likely to stay put for a long time, but I think my priority might best be that web hosting. I mentioned a phase mod synthesiser in various posts when I could indulge it the reference, and the editor on which the final product will be based is tested working on all Win32 now, so it's time I started looking for an ISP that can help me host it cheaply as part of main ISP provision to save costs. I suspect they won't have Usenet, but I'll look at your suggestion of news.individual.net, it may well be a lot better than what I saw last night.. I've been on eternal-september for years - since before they were eternal-september (so long ago I've forgotten what their previous name was - but then I'm old :) ) and never had a problem with them. Sure, they go down occasionally (who doesn't?), but not often and not for too long of a time. The only problem I've had with them recently is about a week ago I couldn't access them because they were so busy (they do limit connections to keep from overloading the server). But once again, that's very seldom. It was just before I went to bed, and when I tried in the morning the connection was fine. Just a spike when I wanted in. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry, AI0K ================== |
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:46:17 -0600, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Percy Picacity wrote in : one paid-for one with a good reputation that only costs 10GBP a year (news.individual.net). That looks very good. The Germans also don't oblige the kinds of govt prying mentaility the Brisitsh seem willing to accept, along with Google intrusions and all the rest of it. I'll probably go with this one. Now, if I could find a web host that looks this good... :) Got to be UK based though. I'l askign Demon what they can offer, not yet heard back, but if you or anyone can offer some suggestions, please do. News individual net : https://news.individual.net/ Is very good and only costs 10 EUR a year, so about £8. Also very reliable and very little spam. |
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... There are good, including moderated, Yahoo Groups where you can find useful technical discussions- free of the nonsense we suffer on Usenet. The trolls and stirrers like Evans aren't tolerated their and are either excluded or their posts are rejected if they are offensive. You can find specialist groups and general ones, between them you should find your needs can be met. Once again, you make a gratutously abusive and completely false remarks about me, and by so doing, make yourself the target of your own criticism. Why do you behave like that? |
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On 11/7/2014 7:34 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Percy Picacity wrote in : There are a number of good free text group newsservers, such as Eternal September, and at least one paid-for one with a good reputation that only costs 10GBP a year (news.individual.net). So I hope we don't have to lose you. Thankyou. :) I will look into it. Two caveats though... The one free one I looked at so far isn't free if I want to post. The other is that the truly free ones may be a haunt of trolls, Eternal September is a namd I have read in contexts of posters naming some systems with a bad hit-rate for troll sources. What difference does it make if trolls use the same ISP for newsgroups that you do? You use the same roads as every bank robber, no? -- Rick |
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On 11/7/2014 7:34 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Percy Picacity wrote in : There are a number of good free text group newsservers, such as Eternal September, and at least one paid-for one with a good reputation that only costs 10GBP a year (news.individual.net). So I hope we don't have to lose you. Thankyou. :) I will look into it. Two caveats though... The one free one I looked at so far isn't free if I want to post. The other is that the truly free ones may be a haunt of trolls, Eternal September is a namd I have read in contexts of posters naming some systems with a bad hit-rate for troll sources. Ideally I'll try to find a paid service that is cheap, quiet, likely to stay put for a long time, but I think my priority might best be that web hosting. I mentioned a phase mod synthesiser in various posts when I could indulge it the reference, and the editor on which the final product will be based is tested working on all Win32 now, so it's time I started looking for an ISP that can help me host it cheaply as part of main ISP provision to save costs. I suspect they won't have Usenet, but I'll look at your suggestion of news.individual.net, it may well be a lot better than what I saw last night.. If you want to host a web site and can construct a web page, I can offer you free hosting. I have an unlimited hosting account and provide hosting service for several of my friends. Check out coldwatersafety.org and wintercrestsearch.com. It costs me nothing extra. You have to buy a domain name and I set up the hosting account for you. The rest is in your hands. Just don't bring down the server or they get ****ed at me. Email me directly if you are interested. -- Rick |
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On 11/7/2014 10:26 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 11/7/2014 7:34 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote: Percy Picacity wrote in : There are a number of good free text group newsservers, such as Eternal September, and at least one paid-for one with a good reputation that only costs 10GBP a year (news.individual.net). So I hope we don't have to lose you. Thankyou. :) I will look into it. Two caveats though... The one free one I looked at so far isn't free if I want to post. The other is that the truly free ones may be a haunt of trolls, Eternal September is a namd I have read in contexts of posters naming some systems with a bad hit-rate for troll sources. Ideally I'll try to find a paid service that is cheap, quiet, likely to stay put for a long time, but I think my priority might best be that web hosting. I mentioned a phase mod synthesiser in various posts when I could indulge it the reference, and the editor on which the final product will be based is tested working on all Win32 now, so it's time I started looking for an ISP that can help me host it cheaply as part of main ISP provision to save costs. I suspect they won't have Usenet, but I'll look at your suggestion of news.individual.net, it may well be a lot better than what I saw last night.. I've been on eternal-september for years - since before they were eternal-september (so long ago I've forgotten what their previous name was - but then I'm old :) ) and never had a problem with them. Sure, they go down occasionally (who doesn't?), but not often and not for too long of a time. The only problem I've had with them recently is about a week ago I couldn't access them because they were so busy (they do limit connections to keep from overloading the server). But once again, that's very seldom. It was just before I went to bed, and when I tried in the morning the connection was fine. Just a spike when I wanted in. I use eternal-september and I find they have trouble *very* infrequently. The event a couple of weeks ago was not just being overloaded. Their servers were still up, but the traffic dropped to half it's usual level. They may have lost a portion of their servers or they may have been under attack. All in all I find them to be very workable. -- Rick |
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On 11/7/2014 7:46 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Percy Picacity wrote in : one paid-for one with a good reputation that only costs 10GBP a year (news.individual.net). That looks very good. The Germans also don't oblige the kinds of govt prying mentaility the Brisitsh seem willing to accept, along with Google intrusions and all the rest of it. I'll probably go with this one. Now, if I could find a web host that looks this good... :) Got to be UK based though. I'l askign Demon what they can offer, not yet heard back, but if you or anyone can offer some suggestions, please do. I am missing something. You are talking about posts that are available for the entire world to see. How is "privacy" an issue? -- Rick |
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On Friday, November 7, 2014 4:58:19 AM UTC-6, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
There may be more innocent explanations, like Usenet going to the dogs generally, public perception genrally favouring forums on the web. Many ISP's did that in the US a long time ago. The main reason being it's a pain and $$$ for them to maintain usenet, and I suppose the cost and hassle is not worth it for them vs the fairly low amount of their users that actually use usenet. In other words it's mainly about money. Or at least here in the states. Comcast dropped it a few years ago. So I just use google groups, which I had for a backup. I've actually got used to google groups and actually prefer it to using a usenet server and a reader, which is T-bird in my case. It's easier and faster to read the posts, where I can see all in a thread with one click, without having to click through each post individually. I also see all old archived posts in a thread, like the one's Gmailers often reply to a decade or more after the original posts.. :| I don't know what it is that provokes Gmailers to reply to posts so old it's often a crapshoot if the OP is still alive or not, much less still active. :/ But if you some loon replying to a 15 year old post, it's almost certainly a Gmailer, which I don't use. Now I use aioe as a backup in case GG craps out, which they do every once in a while. aioe is free same as ES. BTW, I got my revenge on Comcast recently. I had triple play and movie channels which the price kept going up, up, up, and I got tired of having to renegotiate a new price every year, as I refused to pay their full bloated prices. So 3 months ago, I canceled everything but internet. My bill went from $165 a month to about $64 a month. It can be even cheaper if I dump their now $10 a month gateway modem, and buy my own, which I plan to do when I get around to it. It was $8 a month until 2 months ago.. :/ My speed is now slower from my previous appx 58 mbps, to my current 7.2 mbps, or 15 mbps if I go in the unsecured xfinity back door using my laptop and wi-fi, but even 7 mbps is fast enough for most of my uses. It's only been three months, and I've already saved over $300.. Will save over $1200 a year. That's what they get for provoking me with once a year greediness and price scheme mayhem, which drove me up the wall every fall. :+ |
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:01:05 +0000, gareth wrote:
"Lostgallifreyan" wrote in message . .. Once again a wall of text that has no relevance to amateur radio. Once again a unpleasant snipe made just to make you feel better. |
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:01:05 +0000, gareth wrote: "Lostgallifreyan" wrote in message . .. Once again a wall of text that has no relevance to amateur radio. Once again a unpleasant snipe made just to make you feel better. I could pretend I never saw the original, but I think I should state my case: Off-topic, spam, and abuse are very separate things. If people are off-topic but constructive, doing ANYTHING that helps people to stay around, then it is probably a good thing. Sure, there will be some who drily complain of wading though all the off-topic posts to find the posts they want, but if the alternative is a group so uncomfortable that no-one stays, where are those posts?! Maybe if people have some kind of group where those into electronics, radio and such can hang out and feel like it's worth hanging around on Usenet, that could solve both problems. What will solve nether is sitting on the sidelines carping and trying to trip people up. For the record, I won;'t argue or fight about this, not with anyone. I'm not interested. If people give me a hard time I'll just go quiet, and if it looks like it won't end if I write again, I'll leave. If enough people do that, the trolls and their beaters will be in their own self-made heaven. Of course, if it NOT heaven, they know what they can do to change it. |
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:17:59 -0600, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Bernie wrote in : On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:01:05 +0000, gareth wrote: "Lostgallifreyan" wrote in message . .. Once again a wall of text that has no relevance to amateur radio. Once again a unpleasant snipe made just to make you feel better. I could pretend I never saw the original, but I think I should state my case: You are who you are. Gareth is a confused projection of who he wishes he was. I have no authority here, and little anywhere else, but to me you never seem to be an disruptive poster. As I said, no authority, just my thoughts. |
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Bernie wrote in :
I have no authority here, and little anywhere else, but to me you never seem to be an disruptive poster. I think everyone has at least some autority. :) Anyway, if I do get disruptive, and people tell me, I'll be able to gauge how true it is by seeing who tells me based on how they do things the rest of the time. I'll admit having nothign much on antennas to talk about right now, it's not something I do all the time, and other things take over too.. I just tend to hang out in one place at a time, even on Usenet, but I will tone it down if it annoys people when I go off-topic. Right now it's fair game though, given the thread subject and first post. The general issue beign what it might take to make this group thrive without antagonism. The fact that it's not moderated might even be in its favour, though I think there is scope for a moderated group too. Each might help the other exist. |
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On Friday, November 7, 2014 2:11:58 PM UTC-6, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Several seem to be ok with raw net access, not so hot for web hosting. I guess it depends how much room for a website you need. Comcast is fairly good in that regard. I have up to 7 email addresses, and each one gets up to 1 GB of storage room. So I have 7 GB on the various addresses, which can be linked to from my main site address if needed. So I have plenty enough room for the puny website I have, and also enough room that I can store all my images, videos, etc, on my own server, without having to use the various photo storage sites, etc. But I've gone to youtube for most of my videos as they are usually HD now and take a good bit of room. Most are videos of artificial aircraft I work on and fly.. As an example.. I posted this to another forum last night, and it's stored on my own server. A tree rat I took a picture of at the dirt patch last week.. http://home.comcast.net/~disk200/trickrtreat.jpg But I realize many ISP's are kind of skimpy on storage room. When I was with WT.met, I think I only got 5 MB at that time, which was fairly puny. I don't know if they are still around now, or what they offer now if they are. I stick with cable as far as internet, because as far as speed, they smoke all other options in this town. You pay for it, but it's pretty speedy. |
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On Friday, November 7, 2014 4:26:42 PM UTC-6, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
wrote in news:68feb55d-6886-41af-981f- : A tree rat I took a picture of at the dirt patch last week.. http://home.comcast.net/~disk200/trickrtreat.jpg Nice. We call them squirrels here, assuming it's the same species. Red ones are rare, but populations slowly reviving fron Scotland back into England. Maybe some in north Wales too. They call them squirrels here too, but being as I'm a petulant troublemaker.. :/ Your own server... as in at home, direct;y accessed via the web? I could do that, if an ISP allows it. Nope. It's their server which I directly access via the web. "ftp" actually.. I have the hard drive room to be my own server, but not sure how I would be able to rig it to be ftp or web accessed. It could probably be done, but no point with what I have at Comcast. I'm running 5 large drives in this box at the moment.. I think 7-8 TB or so.. Some of that is for backup of other drives content in case a drive goes kaput. I don't use any cloud backup schemes. Even with 7-8 TB worth of drives, I only have about 110 GB free at the moment. And I have other drives which are loaded up, but I don't use any more due to them being small drives compared to today's standards. |
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rickman wrote in :
On 11/7/2014 10:26 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've been on eternal-september for years - since before they were eternal-september (so long ago I've forgotten what their previous name was - but then I'm old :) ) and never had a problem with them. Sure, they go down occasionally (who doesn't?), but not often and not for too long of a time. The only problem I've had with them recently is about a week ago I couldn't access them because they were so busy (they do limit connections to keep from overloading the server). But once again, that's very seldom. It was just before I went to bed, and when I tried in the morning the connection was fine. Just a spike when I wanted in. I use eternal-september and I find they have trouble *very* infrequently. The event a couple of weeks ago was not just being overloaded. Their servers were still up, but the traffic dropped to half it's usual level. They may have lost a portion of their servers or they may have been under attack. All in all I find them to be very workable. Thanks both of you, I'll look at them too, it sounds like I could easily live with any bother of that small magnitude. BT had funny habits even while they did have Usenet, the biggest being that sometimes I'd see 'Autorisation Required'. First time, that was a noodle-baker. It happens if they change the IP (is dynamic) and I end up with one from a block that is not granted usenet access with Giganews, who BT had contract with. Usually, disconnect - wait - reconnect works, if that fails, restart hub. |
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: ES is just fine. Three recommendations now, so ok. Thanks. If trolls and spammers used it enough that people here, as on s.e.d., blocked it outright to stop bulk abuse, its reputation wouldn't get three recommendations here, I'd more likely see comments related to what I just said. I've definitely seen such about aioe though, I was active in a group for some time while it was happening, so I won't use that one while there are at least two likely better choices. |
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rickman wrote in :
What difference does it make if trolls use the same ISP for newsgroups that you do? You use the same roads as every bank robber, no? Sure. :) Thing is, if some of the people most able to help are blocking a whole server in bulk, it's only after several other people have tried, that those people even see the initial question, fragmented perhaps, in their quotes. And then they'd not see any replies to their posts unless they specfically un-blacklisted me. Given that some people would rather block-ban a server with a known abuse record, it may be unlikely they'll want to mess with individual filters to allow a poster from such a host, unless VERY convinced to do so. Given the poor cooms, it could be tough being that convincing. :) Better for me to select my usenet host carefully from the off. |
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En el artículo , rickman
escribió: Well, if he is mentally ill, then by all means let's insult and make fun of him. He isn't mentally ill, just a sociopath with a nasty vindictive streak. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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rickman wrote in :
If you want to host a web site and can construct a web page, I can offer you free hosting. I have an unlimited hosting account and provide hosting service for several of my friends. Check out coldwatersafety.org and wintercrestsearch.com. It costs me nothing extra. You have to buy a domain name and I set up the hosting account for you. The rest is in your hands. Just don't bring down the server or they get ****ed at me. That's a really nice offer, but I think you're on US soil, no? As far as I know, if I want to sell code, I'll be undr UK law, and things like physical sources matter a great deal in law, which I barely understand details of anyway, so I need to reduce as many complications as possible. At the very least, if I have to pay for legal service, it's bound to cost more if I need extra help to manage US law for web based sales. Even if it may not matter at one moment, I have heard of people finding that it can at another, and the consistent advice I picked up was always host geographically under the same law that you live under, until you need to do bulk trade that is served better under another nation's law. I doubt I'll ever trade in bulk. :) |
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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
... En el artículo , rickman escribió: Well, if he is mentally ill, then by all means let's insult and make fun of him. He isn't mentally ill, just a sociopath with a nasty vindictive streak. Even after you have retired to the Canary Islands, you do not seem at all happy going by the bitterness and the "nasty vindictive streak" that you yourself demonstrate. Why not try talking about antennae instead of making a fool of yourself by coming across as a 5-year-old each time that you post to this NG? |
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rickman wrote in :
I am missing something. You are talking about posts that are available for the entire world to see. How is "privacy" an issue? The Germen one hides the IP. It's not a big deal in itself, it has more to do with the attitude. :) The Germans don't like state, corporate or extra-national intrusion into the lives of individual members of the public, by default, The US and UK have recently been shown to be much less cautious, willing to compromise rights and privacy rather than use cautious detective work when dealing with internatiional crime, terrorism and such. My concern with it basically that if I live in a nation that decides that they will no longer protect my privacy, then I must do so myself. I don't have a lot to hide if anything at all worth hiding, but what I do have is schizoid personality disorder, which simply put is a pathological need to be alone, so our current govt's methods are a source of great stress to me, and I try to limit that cause as best I can. I'll feel better if and when the status quo returns to a more healthy live-and-let-live attitude as it used to be. |
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Brian Reay wrote in :
There are good, including moderated, Yahoo Groups where you can find useful technical discussions- free of the nonsense we suffer on Usenet. The trolls and stirrers like Evans aren't tolerated their and are either excluded or their posts are rejected if they are offensive. You can find specialist groups and general ones, between them you should find your needs can be met. True, but I don't like the Yahoo walled garden approach, it aims to make people think they own the Great Gateway to the Internet. To some extent I can find useful postings from Yahoo anyway, because Google caches them. :) |
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Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m3io53$1lt$1@dont-
email.me: There are plenty of free usenet servers out there. I use eternal-september.org; no binary groups but that's fine with me. And their retention policy is decent. I suggest you try them out. That is four recommendations now, so I will. Allowing free posting would be very convincing, even though the 10 EUR for the German firm per year is easily bearable. I guess not hosting binaries is one way they can dramatically reduce unwanted posters. I use Xnews to read stuff, so good retention is helpful, and might be the decide between the two. |
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On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:34:37 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
isn't mentally ill, just a sociopath Oxymoron alert! I imagine that you are using the word sociopath colloquially as the condition *is* a mental illness. -- M0WYM Sales @ radiowymsey http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Sales-At-Radio-Wymsey/ |
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En el artículo , Wymsey
escribió: I imagine that you are using the word sociopath colloquially as the condition *is* a mental illness. I defer to your superior knowledge of the subject, perhaps as a result of personal experience :) -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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On 11/8/2014 5:34 AM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , rickman escribió: Well, if he is mentally ill, then by all means let's insult and make fun of him. He isn't mentally ill, just a sociopath with a nasty vindictive streak. And does that make it ok to ridicule and berate him? The point of this thread is that he alone can't do any real harm to this group. But all the people who respond to him or post repeatedly about him do as much if not more harm to the group. Instead of rec.radio.amateur.antenna we should call it rec.radio.amateur.Gareth to make more of the conversations on topic. -- Rick |
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On 11/8/2014 5:36 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
rickman wrote in : If you want to host a web site and can construct a web page, I can offer you free hosting. I have an unlimited hosting account and provide hosting service for several of my friends. Check out coldwatersafety.org and wintercrestsearch.com. It costs me nothing extra. You have to buy a domain name and I set up the hosting account for you. The rest is in your hands. Just don't bring down the server or they get ****ed at me. That's a really nice offer, but I think you're on US soil, no? As far as I know, if I want to sell code, I'll be undr UK law, and things like physical sources matter a great deal in law, which I barely understand details of anyway, so I need to reduce as many complications as possible. At the very least, if I have to pay for legal service, it's bound to cost more if I need extra help to manage US law for web based sales. Even if it may not matter at one moment, I have heard of people finding that it can at another, and the consistent advice I picked up was always host geographically under the same law that you live under, until you need to do bulk trade that is served better under another nation's law. I doubt I'll ever trade in bulk. :) Ok. Then look around for low cost hosting. It really is not very expensive these days. I think I'm paying around $50 a year and like I said, the account is unlimited until you have bandwidth or storage that would bring down the server. They did once draw the line at a 2.5 TB map data base I was considering hosting, lol. -- Rick |
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On 08/11/14 15:57, Mr On!on wrote:
Where is Yankland? Near Berkshire. [fuset] |
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gareth wrote:
wrote in message ... As the above is just guesswork and there is no official diagnosis, at this point we can concider him to be just a pain in the butt crank. Perhaps if enough people pour onto him, he will take advantage of that free health care in the UK and get himself checked out. The advanced EM texts all describe the mechanism by which short antennae are poor radiators. How the once-technical Yankland descends into the abyss of rednecked abusive ignorance! Perhaps those legislators who tried to pass a law defining PI as 3 are now the cadre of those holding Ham licences in Yankland? And yet again the gas bag of gas bags posts pure nonsense. The tale of a legislature trying to pass a law to make pi 3 was an April Fool's parody in 1998. http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp It is not surprising the gas bag believes April Fool's parodies, old wive's tales, urban legands, and other such nonsense. -- Jim Pennino |
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rickman wrote in :
Ok. Then look around for low cost hosting. It really is not very expensive these days. I think I'm paying around $50 a year and like I said, the account is unlimited until you have bandwidth or storage that would bring down the server. They did once draw the line at a 2.5 TB map data base I was considering hosting, lol. I bet they did. :) Even Google might give the look askance. I've been reading a page on server location, and maybe it's not the issue I thought it was. On the other hand that page had nothign to say about encryption, for example a download of OpenBSD from US to US was (maybe still is) not very legal, but is safe fetched from Canada. Who was at greatest risk I don't know, but the OpenBSD people were careful to remind people of it for many years. What I'll do is look for a UK host with direct access to the link that goes to satellite through Gonnhilly Downs in Cornwall, or the Lynx router in London, failing that I may be ok with a US server, if I can find a good UK software seller's precedent for similar use to guide me on any issues I should know about. |
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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
... He sent a malicious email to my employer insinuating I was a paedophile in an attempt to get me the sack. Untrue. This is something he has done to different people on several previous occasions. All they have done is call him out on his trolling, or have the temerity to disagree with him, or more often, disprove his wild theories that pay no heed to the laws of physics (cf. short antennas, polarised resistors, etc. etc. etc.) Untrue Not to the group, no, but he can, has, and will, attempt to do real harm to those with whom he takes issue. And like most trolls, he is thin- skinned and takes offence very easily. Almost any criticism, however mild, is classed as 'abuse' in his alternate universe. Untrue If you like. The man's a complete **** and is beneath contempt. He's been trolling usenet since at least 1997. He's the sole reason we need uk.radio.amateur.moderated, since he has destroyed uk.radio.amateur with his machinations and is hell bent on doing the same here in rr.aa. Untrue. The unpleasantness consistently comes from you, and is never originated by me. In uk.r.a a campaign called Project Shun is running, whereby Evans is ignored. It's having a remarkable effect, which is why he's reduced to trolling other groups since no one responds directly to him in uk.r.a any more, depriving him of the attention he desperately craves. If people just ignored him he'd **** off and infest some other blameless group. Untrue. |
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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On 11/8/2014 12:29 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
rickman wrote in : Ok. Then look around for low cost hosting. It really is not very expensive these days. I think I'm paying around $50 a year and like I said, the account is unlimited until you have bandwidth or storage that would bring down the server. They did once draw the line at a 2.5 TB map data base I was considering hosting, lol. I bet they did. :) Even Google might give the look askance. I've been reading a page on server location, and maybe it's not the issue I thought it was. On the other hand that page had nothign to say about encryption, for example a download of OpenBSD from US to US was (maybe still is) not very legal, but is safe fetched from Canada. Who was at greatest risk I don't know, but the OpenBSD people were careful to remind people of it for many years. I don't know what you are talking about. What is illegal about OpenBSD? I'm pretty sure that if you are in the US, the legality of a download has nothing to do with the location of the server. Heck, there are some acts that even if you commit them in a foreign country open you to being arrested when you return to the US (mostly sex crimes such as juvenile offenses). What I'll do is look for a UK host with direct access to the link that goes to satellite through Gonnhilly Downs in Cornwall, or the Lynx router in London, failing that I may be ok with a US server, if I can find a good UK software seller's precedent for similar use to guide me on any issues I should know about. What the heck are you planning to post that you are worried about governments? You are aware that all governments have a great many things they wish to look at on the Internet, but only a very, very tiny fraction that they feel the need to do anything about? The latter are usually things that threaten national security or are heinous crimes in virtually every country. -- Rick |
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On 11/8/2014 12:40 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Lostgallifreyan wrote in : US to US to UK.. You need to requote your post. I have no idea what context this has. -- Rick |
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"rickman" wrote in message
... The only thing it accomplishes is to soil this group just the same as his posts. Discussing aspects of antennae that interest me does NOT soil this NG, unlike, however, the childish and abusive outbursts of you the Yank rednecks. |
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