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RE: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?


> From: mwoehlke
> 
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >> From: Bruce Wehr
> > [Holy snip]
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^ :-)
> 
> > 2.  What you claim you want to do is spamming, pure and simple, by 
> > anybody's definition.  BTW: Anybody's definition is: "Sending 
> > unsolicited email, usually in an effort to get money from somebody 
> > legally or otherwise, en masse to a bajillion newsgroups 
> and/or email addresses."
> 
> I shan't mention that he is not sending *e-mail*... :-)

Doh!  I expect Korns would get me on that. ;-)  Double Word Score on
"shan't" though. ;-)

> but I 
> think "unsolicited" is at best debatable, if not outright false.
> 

?  I don't follow.

> > 3.  Dave Korn hates Pokemons and becomes enraged at the 
> very mention 
> > of them, hence his ranting against you.  But who amongst us 
> here can blame him?
> 
> Oops, I was wrong... *that* was your first mistake. :-D
> 
> Can't say I'm too fond of them either.
> 

Yeah, hmpfh, they're /soo/ last week. ;-)

> > 4.  If you are in fact a filthy spammer, well, then I'll save you a 
> > seat in Hell.
> 
> ...Mind the hippos.
> 

Korn's the hippo expert here, but I don't think they're allowed in hell.
Too ornery.

> --
> Matthew
> ...Ruthlessly beating Windows with a hammer until it looks like POSIX.

"Linux".  Cygwin is "Linux" on Windows now.  No, I'm not sure when or why
that changed either.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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