Re: OT: Why People Are Not Free? (rant)

From: ~~SciGirl~~ (palmtree117_at_juno.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:16:15 GMT

OK, I'm on news.verizon.net with outlook express now, I finally got it to
work, does this look any better??? (Mr. Grise over there, who seemed
especially affected, you can be the judge)

"keith" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.03.28.02.20.50.530792@att.bizzzz...
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:30:20 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:
>
> >>Would you *please* get a decent news client and find a news server?
> > Your
> >>posts are quite annoying. I thought you might get a hint if prodded.
> >>Evidently you are indeed a "*** head".
> >
> > I can't! Decent ones aren't free. I repeat, you don't have to read my
> > posts! Just skip over them.
>
> Decent "what's" aren't free. You see, no one can follow your posts beause
> you don't include enough text from the person you're relpying to for
> anyone to figure out what the hell you're blathering about.
>
> News *clients* are free just about everywhere. For WinBlows I tend to
> like Gravity (*free*). There are free, or nearly so, news servers out
> there. I now have to *pay* a grand total of $13 per *year* for
> individual.net. It was free while you were complaining here.
>
>
> > I know you're all annoyed with me, but I have been copying and pasting,
>
> C&P doesn't cut it, unless you add in all the hints that
> *other's* servers use to display articles. When you write, you
> must think of your reader. Newsreaders add all this stuff in for notin'.
> You just stick the cursor in where you want to type and go at it.
>
> > as you say, and I must be doing it right because what I copy and paste
> > shows up as blue text. Therefore, I figure that if you are annoyed with
> > me despite that, it must be the context of my messages that's bothering
> > you.
>
> When you follow the rules (apparently manually) it works, sorta. I find
> it amazing that you're having to go through this much work though. The
> accepted standards aren't tough and all newsreaders handle them. Dump
> google-groups and get on with life.
>
> > I CAN'T HELP IT THAT I'M NOT A SUPERGENIUS AND THAT I DON'T
> > UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING YOU DO. You don't have to answer my questions, so
> > if it annoys you to do so, just don't! I usually find the answer somehow
> > anyways. I wonder why you even care.
>
> I don't care much either. I *thought* you wanted to be a grown-up and
> learn from the rest here, rather than be treated as a spoiled *BRAT*. The
> choice is yours.
>
> --
> Keith
>

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