Anybody heard from Charlie Self?

[Patriarch]

Since the AOL newsgroups thing, I've not seen anything of our formerly active poster. It was rumoured that he'd be back soon, but that's been some weeks, now.

Hope everything's all right.

Patriarch

[Norman D. Crow]

I just did a "find" on him in OE, he's made 168 posts since 1/20/05, 5 of them on 3/20, 3/21.

[George]

He's Bush-bashing in the OT thread with regularity. You must be filtered.

[Paul Kierstead]

Charlie appears to be posting via Google Groups. A while back it was suggested to filter out google (such a broad filter is a poor choice in my opinion, but everyone is entitled their opinion even if they are wrong :) ) I think the troll filter set kills google (could be wrong though). Perhaps he is filtered?

PK

[Dave Hinz]

I set up a shell account with Usenet access for him on one of my servers, but he hasn't connected to it this month. Charlie, you out there?

Dave

[Patriarch]

"George" wrote in news:4240161c [e-mail]:

That seems to be it. I have the politics and the Google filters engaged.

Thanks, folks!

Patriarch

[Charlie Self]

but he hasn't connected to it this month. Charlie, you out there?

[Dave Hinz]

No problem, it's there when you need it. It'll physically move at the end of next month so it may be down for a day or two, but it'll come back up on a different IP.

I didn't notice that you hadn't been around, and I'm apparently not filtering you ;)

Yup, sometimes life takes priority to online.

Dave

[brianlanning]

If it wasn't for google, I'd never post. I hate most ISP news servers.

brian

[Mike Marlow]

One can always tell the google posters - they carry on conversations with themselves.

[Dave Hinz]

Well, they _can_ quote with context if they'd bother to select that option. Google has been asked to make that the default behavior, but here months later, we still see ...this...

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:02:55 -0500, the inscrutable "Mike Marlow" spake:

Yeah, I asked him to quote something to get a sense of who and what he was talking about but he doesn't seem to think it necessary. C'est la vie, wot?

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[fredfighter]

Do you have me killfiled?

[Pat Barber]

Charlie sent me a note yesterday. His health is fine but his computer problems continue.

[brianlanning]

Can't most people see the entire thread as a tree? I know agent does it.

I bet google does it this way to reduce the volume of data.

brian

[Dave Hinz]

Many/most people only display unread messages when reading Usenet. If you include enough context to know what and who your response is to, then it helps people who read your message to know what you're talking about.

No, I think it's just a brain-dead decision on how to set a default. They archive an insane amount of data; quoted text from Usenet posts probably doesn't make a 1% difference in that.

[fredfighter]

Well, I asked you for a source for a statement that appeared to be a patent lie. I did not think you just made it up, rather I thought you were being gullible. But you never responded.

What should I think now?

[Mark]

Maybe he retired. All he did was complain about all the troubles about demoing machinery. What a job! Mark