Re: Report this spam to: groups-abuse@google.com

Michael A. Terrell wrote:


So what is your answer to spam? Do like the guy in Russia and kill
the spammer?

The answer is to ignore it. If the spammers derived $0 in spam related
income then it wouldnt be worth doing.

Unfortunately people are too dumb.

You still have your troubles with the English language, 190 IQ boy.

Wow, a typo. Good call. How are those straws you are grasping by the way?


No, not one "Typo". Your use of the English language throughout the
thread is horrid. You would have never graduated from High School where
I grew up.

I must admit that I dont particular care when Im leaving abusive messages on
usenet. Go figure.



What would qualify anyone about spammers? A head shrinker? Maybe a
bunch of goons to kick the spammer's front door down and smash all of
their computers? If Google gets fed up with all the spam reports they
make it harder to post, or set a limit of posts per IP address, per
day. They won't do anything until it becomes a real thorn in their
side.

A slight understanding that usenet (as well as email) is pretty much
completely unregulated because of its architecture. Again, google is simply
a web based interface to usenet, so google acting on spam means absolutely
nothing.

I was already installing Novel networks before I went to work at

So why do you find it so hard to comprehend that

1) Google groups is simply a node on the usenet network, not the network
itself
2) There is no way to regulate the usenet from a technical perspective
3) Usenet accounts to use for spam are free, easy to get, and infinite

???

Microdyne. As a matter of fact, I still have a 100 user Novel license
disk in my files. I worked with older networking that used RS-232. It
was a joke, but it almost worked. I'm glad that i wasn't the one who
set it up. It was a different division of Microdyne that sold
networking hardware and Novel bundles. Yes, I've spent time studying
networking from the Arcnet days, to the current Ethernet layers. I had

Hey, while we're off the topic - back in my DOS days, i picked up some
arcnet cards but didnt have a clue what they were. We were trying to use
them to network some machines for Doom :) Ended up posting on usenet (from
memory) about them and some guy came back and told us they were arcnet
cards and how to set them up. The guy was in fact the engineer who designed
arcnet :)

That was back in the early 90s, when usenet wasnt completely worthless.



Who cares? Relevance?


Relevance? You want to know about my networking abilities, yet my
having build the one permanent and unique, out of this world network
interface its not relevant?

Im confused. Why then are you arguing with me about usenet architecture?

Do you ever write in machine language? Not assembler, but true
machine code? I used to for the 6502 and 6510 processors. I wrote a

Heh. As it happens one of my hobbies is 6502 assembler (I like the way
you say 6502 AND 6510, when the 6510 is little more than a 6502 with
ports hardwired into locations $00 and $01, and is simply the minor 6502
derivative used in the commodore 64). Machine code? Sure, if you like,
although why bother when ca65 etc are available? If you like I could
convert the hexidecimal opcodes into binary in my head and enter it in on
a set of switches?

6502 (and 6510! :)), 6800, z80, 68000, 8086...... Which would you like?
Im particular adept at 6510 (!) and the c64. In fact my left arm is
resting on a complete C128 setup on the desk next to me, and the machine
Im on (a linux box) has vice and ca65 installed on it, and one of my
servers has subversion running with my 6502 source.........


I have a couple working 128D computers, about a half dozen C-128s and
a pile of 4023 printers and IEEE-488 floppy drives and other parts for
the early PET series. I repaired hundreds of commodore computers them
in the '80s and '90s.

ooooh, IEEE. Nice. I have a couple of SFD1001s here, which are extremely
rare in Australia. One even works. My collection runs to many, many c64s,
1541s, 1571s, c128s, an old PET....etc


Have you replaced the 4416 16K*4 video RAM in a 128 with the 4464
64K*4 RAM? You can either use it to store multiple screens, or access

Not yet, but the 4464s are sitting on the bench. Im deciding whether to
simply replace the chips in my c128s (I have a couple), or whether to
design a piggyback PCB (like the ones made in the late 80s). If I do that,
maybe 4464s arent the best thing to use.

Decisions decisions.

Then again, Risen From Oblivion runs without it.

it as more memory. Also, did you know that the 128D uses a different
Video chip than the 128? I installed a 3.5 inch drive in one of the

Different, as in a different model number? Im sure its still a VIC-II tho.
Or are you talking about the VDC variations? I seem to recall there being 2
different VDCs. Its 7am here, my brain is mush.

128D computers. I was designing a modification to the circuit board to
eliminate the card from the 1581 drive. The disassembler that I wrote
was for the 1581 drive. It not only took the code apart, it wrote the
files to the drive it was running on. There is still dead code in the
1581 ROM from early Commodore disk drives.

Welcome to commodore. Im surprised that there isnt a dead ferret and an
antique chair in there somewhere too.

My days are far from empty. I just can't schedule the times that I'm
available to work because of a lot of medical problems. I am busy at
one project or another all of my waking hours. I never planned to
retire, but I have been forced to slow down by needing a cane and not
being able to stand for very long. It hasn't done anything to my mind,
but I am losing my eyesight. In fact, I am looking into getting a grant
to set up a repair business for electric power chairs and other
electronic aids for the disabled. BTW, I am fixing a damaged one that
was given to me and it will have a wireless networked computer built in
when I'm done.


Dude, it simply looks like we got off on the wrong foot. You sound like a
stand-up guy with extraordinary taste in computers :) Anyone who uses a PET
gets my stamp of approval.
.

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