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RE: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 21:35:04 -0500
- Subject: RE: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> 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