Mediaguy500 wrote:

At least you didn't get banned.

Q: How do you get "banned" from a usenet newsgroup?

A: (waiting for a punchline)

-D
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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

"Donald K" wrote in message
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Mediaguy500 wrote:

At least you didn't get banned.

Q: How do you get "banned" from a usenet newsgroup?

A: (waiting for a punchline)

-D

Let's see. He was posting to a Batman (!) group on WebTV and is now posting
from a Compuserve account. That tells me all I need to know about his
technical prowess, although I really expected him to be posting from AOL.
g

"Steve Giovanis" wrote in message
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Earlier I posted about my experience with Radio shack and trunk tracker
scanners. How is this off topic to rec.radio.scanner ?


It wasn't off topic to the group, but is was off-topic to the question. That
is probably why some people had a go at you.

The question asked about the workings of trunked radio systems and you
started talking about RadioShack.

I didn't mind. It made for interesting reading

The trouble is that most of the people that buy from RS are Trailer Trash
and putting down RS is like insulting the trailer park. They will strap on
the coveralls, light up the Corn-cob pipe and grab the 12 gage to defend it.

"Steve Giovanis" wrote in message
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Earlier I posted about my experience with Radio shack and trunk tracker
scanners. How is this off topic to rec.radio.scanner ?