Re: FAQ Posting problem

mallen said the following on 4/30/2006 12:39 AM:
> Randy Webb wrote:
>> Now, a kudos to many of the Google posters. Once they have been beat in
>> the head about 25 or so times about reading the FAQ, how to post
>> properly, and Usenet in general, they tend to learn.
>
> There are plenty of folks using google groups, due to its ease of
> access, who have been posting and using Usenet for a very long time.

Very true.

> What some of you are suggesting is the equivalent of me killfiling any
> thing that comes out of aol.com :).

Touché. Point made.

That comment actually got me to thinking about it harder and I think it
is the new users to Google that give it the reputation it has. The only
time people realize someone is posting from Google is when they screw
up. Same goes for OE users also. You only pay attention to the bad and
ignore the good.

<quietly going off to remove my foot from my mouth>

Sidenote: I don't post from AOL anymore (they dropped Usenet access) but
I stopped using it before they dropped it. My email address is left as
an AOL address because of the simplicity of AOL Email controls for me. I
have it set to only allow AOL members to email me so that I don't get
spammed from Usenet. I posted using AOL for a very long time and the
only problem with it was the HTML rendering. If someone posted code, I
saw the HTML rendered instead of the code. I had to wait for the code to
show up in Google, copy/paste it to AOL, and then reply. Lot of time and
patience.

A sure indication of a Google user is typically no quoting. A sure
indication in the archives of an AOL user (a long time ago) was the
addition of a period in the code:

<.a href.....>

So that AOL wouldn't render it (It is still used on AOL MB's to this day
for that reason).

> I would miss out on some great info If so. Google is just the latest
> group to make it easier to get access to things.

Very very true. And a kudos to Google that other sites haven't done and
that is not to claim it as a "Message Board"/"Forum" but to offer it as
what it is - Usenet.

-- 
Randy
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