just testing my news reader
test
Apr 22, 2002, 5:35 PM ET44 posts by 10 postersalt.tv.friends
44 posts
In article , p r i y a wrote:
And?
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
Tennant Stuart wrote in message news:...
And hating it. My test post showed up but I didn't see your post or Owen's in it. I'm using google now. Many of the posts seem to get lost.
Priya
"p r i y a" wrote in message news:[email]...
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I can't think of any other way, there aren't many decent windoze newsreaders. I use Outlook Express, but it's not brilliant.
Owen
"Owen Shiers" wrote in message
It's the news server rather than the news reader that determines which messages you get isn't it?
"Pete Bartlett" wrote in message news:aacn9v$9o6m5$[email]...
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Ok, thanks!
Owen
"Pete Bartlett" wrote in message news:aacn9v$9o6m5$[email]...
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I've heard in another newsgroup that their servers are playing up recently and dropping quite a few messages, but that might be due to the fact that alt.music.oasis gets flooded with like 400 new messages per day, as opposed to roughly 60 new ones here....
Andre
"Andr� Knoche" wrote in message news:aae0i8$d9v$[email]...
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miscrosoft.public.windowsxp gets hundreds aswell, it's impossible to keep up!
Owen
"Owen Shiers" wrote in message news:BOvy8.1410$[email]...
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dont you just hate that aspect of Usenet? in amo I just read the messages that sound interesting from the subject line, otherwise it'd take me days to get through all those messages
Andre
"Andr� Knoche" wrote in message news:aae4kg$ncc$[email]...
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Yeah, same here, it depends what I've got on. It's quite interesting reading the messages when I have the time, but sometimes I wonder how people reply to so many messages.
Owen
"Owen Shiers" wrote in message news:WEAy8.13079$%[email]...
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and even more so *when* do they reply to all those messages? It seems like some people really spend the whole day on a newsgroup...
Andre
"Andr� Knoche" wrote in message news:aaellk$6or$[email]...
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Not me! Depends what day it is and what underwear I'm wearing really...I suppose at weekends, I check the ng about five times a day, and about twice in weekdays.
Owen
"Owen Shiers" wrote in message news:z2Dy8.2773$[email]...
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I just have to know. what is the significance of your underwear in relation to the amount of Usenet posts of yours?
Andre
"Andr� Knoche" wrote in message news:aaevgo$1sv$[email]...
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Twas just a joke, it really only depends on how much time I have, or how arsed I can be to do my work.
Owen
"Owen Shiers" wrote in message news:9EOy8.12670$[email]...
What a shame... I thought I was going to get another insight into British culture I hadn't yet been aware of :(
Andre
"Andr� Knoche" wrote in message news:aagjrh$8he$[email]...
Lol, well I suppose nothing much depends on what underwear you're wearing. Unless for example, you're wearing some sort that takes an extra half a second to put on, which means that you might have crossed the street 0.5 seconds after the bus...
Maybe the thirty seconds I typed will kill me.....arghhhhhh....just kidding.
Owen
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Actually, this so true. In time-travel stories, people worry about going back in time and changing history - but if you think about it, every tiny thing that you do alters the course of history from now on.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
wearing.
Like the fact that instead of gettting my toast and replying to this now means that my toast is 1 degree colder, could mean that my toe gets chopped off tomorrow! Although it's highly unlikely...
Owen
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
You never know, especially since colder toast might also have resulted in you not having your toe chopped off.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
It's a strange universe we live in...
Owen
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Tennant Stuart stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -
If you had a time-machine, what would you change?
Personally, being married to Dedee Pfeiffer, sounds quite a good one. :)
[I could then introduce you to Michelle, too] :)
In article , Paul Hyett wrote:
I don't know.
The obvious answer is to undo some horror of history, but for all you know, every alternative would have been even worse. For example, you prevent September 11th, then one of the terrorists who didn't die goes on to destroy Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb during the 2002 Oscars.
I'd like to use a time machine to answer the puzzles of history, though.
Thanks!
Tennant
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Lol!
Gosh Owen, that's a bit more than me. :)
At weekends, I check the ng only once a day (though that's more like twice on Saturdays and not on Sundays), while during the week it's about 1� times per day (on average) - though I often miss Wednesdays & the odd Monday.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
<Hangs head in shame>
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Well I check it that often because I'm bored, and it's an excuse not to do Binominal Distrubution...
Owen
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Awww... don't do that, be proud. It is such fun discussing "Friends" with all you lovely people that I wish I could do it all day. Sadly, I'm just too busy, but I do try to get the odd half-hour when I can.
Oh, but binominal distribution is so elegant!
Tennant
= "Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]... =>
Well same here...kinda, I suppose I do have more time, which I really should be using to do homework!
do
It's sooo boring, I mean whoever made those tables must have waaaay to mutch spare time...
Owen
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
I try to get in as much as I can, mainly because I'm so bored here!
do
Whoever did those tables had waaaaay to much spare time...
Owen
p.s. OE isn't showing my posts again, please tell me if you get this by email!
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Good for you! :)
Tables? What about the beautiful underlying structure?
Okay.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
It's just numbers, it's enough to make you go crazy! Especially when you have exams in 15 days and you havn't started revising!
Owen
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Oh, numbers are so much more fun when you don't have to sit tests any more, and you get paid for playing with them instead.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
Lucky you! Ah well, maths aint that bad, although mechanics is a bitch.
Owen
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Hehe. Well, an ability with vector diagrams comes in handy when people won't believe that a land yacht can travel far faster than the wind.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
Yeah, resolving vectors is key to any problem. As for land yachts, that does make sense, I've seen them on TV loads of times and they're always commenting on how fast they go.
Owen
In article , "Owen Shiers" wrote:
Yeah, and they usually say it's because of the reduced friction.
Tennant
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
On sand? I'd say it because wind resistance goes for you, not against.
Owen
"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message news:[email]...
That's true, although it depends how streamline you are if you're talking about water.
It's weird how things are modelled in mechanics, we have to assume a whole bunch of stuff, like that if a string is "light", it weighs nothing, or if a plane is smooth, it has no friction....crazy...
Owen
Pete Bartlett devised a cunning plan:
Try MacSoup--it's supposed to be really good!
Isn't it the person who is reading the news who gets to determine which messages are downloaded? I'm pretty sure my newsserver doesn't tell me what I want to read, although I could be wrong. Computar machenes are getting cleverer all the time, aren't they!
That doesn't really help, unless you could read German, although it's a nice thought. Or do you mean that they run everything through a Babelfish translator computar program before you download it? Do you have to tell them which country you are from?
"Zixia" wrote in message news:[email]... snip...
One can configure most modern news readers to either download headers only or headers and their boddies as well. To save time I have configured my readers to download only headers. When I see a header that is of interest to me I will prompt the reader to download the body. This works well for me but everyone has their own preferences.
Jeff
Jeff Schwartz devised a cunning plan:
But how can you tell if you want to read the message if you haven't read the message yet? Don't you need something like the subject line for that to work? I think you would be stuck in a paradigm, where one thing can't be true because it would falsify something that has already happened.
Hmm, perhaps you download the message, and then read it, but delete it if you felt that you didn't want to read it in the first place. Is that what you meant?
Cunning? I don't know about that but I am making use of this feature that both Agent, Free Agent and Outlook Express support.
You see, among other information the subject of a post is included in its header. That is how I save time. I download new headers, read their subject lines and if something interests me I'll download its body. YMMV. Jeff
"Zixia" wrote in message news:[email]...
That'd be top-posting, would it?
Wretch
Jeff Schwartz devised a cunning plan:
But I am using Migrosoft. At least, I think I am. The man at the computar shop said Migrosoft was installated on this machine. Does this mean I am using Agent, Free Agent and Outlook Express as well? I would be interested in downloading the subject line but not the headers, as it would take less time, right? But I can still read the rest of the message, though, otherwise it wouldn't make much sense.
In article , [email] (p r i y a) wrote:
Well, at least the test is working (by showing up faults that is).
Tennant