Re: how to say "god does not exist" in arabic?

From: David Brandon Thomas (vaelynphi_at_aol.comZOT)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: 25 Aug 2004 03:44:42 GMT

In article <slrncinpgj.4gq.nospam@odin.buserror.net>, Scott Wood
<nospam@buserror.net> writes:

>On 24 Aug 2004 20:26:01 GMT, David Brandon Thomas <vaelynphi@aol.comZOT>
>wrote:
>> In article <412B26FE.7427@worldnet.att.net>, "Peter T. Daniels"
>><grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>>>Do you, too, not understand about crossposting? Mr. Lee will not see
>>>your message.
>>>--
>>>Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
>>
>> I tried crossposting it; if it did not work, I don't really care.
>
>It didn't, and Peter was explaining why you should. With most
>newsreaders, one has to make an effort *not* to continue
>cross-posting if the parent article was cross-posted (except in the
>presense of a Followup-To: line, which the post you replied to did
>not have).
>
>> Shouldn't there be something in Usenet etiquette about posting to
>> groups you do not read? It should be equivalent to spam, another
>> unanswerable form of communication.
>
>It's not unanswerable; you can answer by continuing to cross-post.
>
>Yes, cross-posting is often abused, but there's nothing wrong with it
>when a thread is *legitimately* on topic in all of the groups
>involved. If everyone had to trim the newsgroup list to only those
>groups that they read, there could be no discussion between members
>of different groups.
>
>If you feel the cross-post is inappropriate, you can set a
>Followup-To: header to indicate this. Such a line indicates which
>group you will be reading from, and tells people in other groups
>where to go to continue the discussion if they wish.
>
>-Scott

In a perfect world, maybe.

 - Vae
"You are here to learn the mysteries of Kung Fu, not linguistics. If you can't
understand me, I will communicate with you like I would a dog. When I yell,
when I point, when I beat you with my stick!" {Pai Mei}

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