Re: Help deciding.

On Jan 21, 11:01 am, The_Professor <d...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 21, 10:17 am, Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-





inter.net> wrote:
The Professor wrote:

"Lawrence Logic" wrote:

"The Professor" <D...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dave U. Random" wrote:

Nil wrote:

On 19 Jan 2009, The_Professor <d...@xxxxxxx> wrote in alt.guitar:

Absolutely true, and I've never denied that. However, usenet is
not the same thing as it was in 1982. Usenet  existed before the
internet as well. You used to have to have a protocol like PINE
running in unix to see usenet through bitnet.

Is that the best you can do? The above needs at least 3 more mis-used,
mis-understood, mangled tech buzzwords and/or concepts in order to be
truly hilarious.

You don't find the fact that the idiot called Pine a "protocol"
when it's actually a mail client that serves as a particularly
clunky news reader only in it's post-version-3.90 permutations,
"truly hilarious"?

You don't find the fact that Pine 3.90 wasn't even released until
1994, loooooooooooong after bitnet had essentially bit net dust (pun
intended)... "truly hilarious"?

You don't find the fact that Bitnet was actually an "alternative"
to Usenet in part, and used a completely different protocol
(LISTSERV) to move messages around......... "TRULY hilarious"?

You don't find the fact that Pine could NEVER read messages of any
type off Bitnet without some sort of "gateway" software translating
things............... "TRULY HILARIOUS"?

I do. <grin>

Yes folks, if there were any doubt left in anyone's mind about what
a spanktard this "Professor" character is let them be laid to rest
right now. The above quoted paragraph is a complete joke. The
product of a total dimbulb trying anything and everything to
deflect the beating it's being dealt.

Truly ridiculous...but if you want to beleive that, fine with me. Usenet
was
just an apopendage to emailn those days, buyt what do you know. Keep up
the
hate though!

That's the worst typing you've done so far.  Either you'd had too much to
drink or you were genuinely agitated by the fact that you're a misinformed
lummox.

This isn't really a spelling lame or a typo lame; I'm merely observing that
your previous efforts don't appear to exhibit anything even close to
"...apopendage to emailn those days, buyt...", suggesting that your typing
was influenced by something.  Methinks your exposure as a know-nothing
pretender may have been the trigger.

I'm gonna make your day! I'm gonna respond to you...my public service for the
day!

Delusions of significance... <LAUGH!>

Please don't fool yourself into thinking that the way you're being
kicked from one end of the group to the other over your asininity
means anyone cares if you reply or not. You're barely a diversion.
Something to sharpen out talons on while waiting for a real
challenge to blunder by.

I love the "logic" of an arguement that usenet is just a series of protocols;

You truly are a congenital moron. Nobody said any such thing, but
being that you're too stump stupid to know the difference between
an email and news client, and a protocol, it's not exactly a
profound revelation to find that you're making the same hilarious
mistake regarding a series of independent servers and the single
protocol they ALL run to exchange messages.

put up against my saying that it has to have an infrastructure that actually
exists and has to be paid for...

Sorry about your luck and all there sonny, but Usenet doesn't even
HAVE to be paid for. There are in fact many absolutely free news
servers, many of which peer with each other in a way that
essentially creates their own "mini infrastructure". They could
exist all by their lonesome, with no help from anyone.

Actually, there's more than one Usenet. The protocol is implemented
by a whole bunch of little "pockets" of servers, and even
individual machines. Trundle your dumb little ass off to GRC.com
for an example.

and then someone with the protocol only
arguement puts up information indicating that ISPs offering usenet have to have
a news server, and thus there must be soething more than just a series of
protocols. Of course you have no idea about the concept of backbone providers
like UUNET and how they are organized with respect to usenet. You know, there

UUNET has nothing at all to do with Usenet, dummy. In fact UUNET
doesn't even EXIST any more.

The sheer extent of your cluelesness is astounding.

was once a movement affot to give UUNET the usenet ISP death penalty! I

It's (U)senet (D)eath (P)enalty, dummy.

remember this one because we discussed it on another board at length at the
time.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-202123.html

Do you even read your own cites, ya' dunderhead....

"The group--a self-described loose coalition of news administrators
and concerned users--was cancelling out Usenet messages sent from
UUNet since August 1. This was done in response to an alleged tide
of junk email the group said was being sent by UUNet customers."

Take a wild stab at who that "loose coalition" is Einstein. Go
ahead, concentrate real hard. There's no time limit.

That's right moron, you just posted an reference that proves 100%
beyond any doubt you're full of ***. If UUNET were any more the
owner of Usenet that Usenet.com <LAUGH!> nobody could ever hope to
UDP them.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

Really. It's about the only thing you actually seem to be good at.

If UUNET doesn't support usenet,

It doesn't. Even when it DID exist. LOL!

and
offer it as a service to the ISPs they support, usenet would be dead.

BZZZZZZZT! Wrong answer but thank for playing. Usenet is alive and
well in spite of the fact that UUNET is no longer. ROTFL!

But there
I go claiming central organizing infrastructure again! In any event, that's why
I think the arguement was absurd!

Most of what you "think" is a cluster*** of misinformation and
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Spew all the hate you want. Usenet is not only a set of protocols. The
UUNET article I refrred to was dated 1997, not yesterday. My ISP has a
news server, which in fact is part of the centralized infrastructure
that supports usenet. Nothing more need to be said to show the nature
of your claims. I'm amazed at the hate people like yo can come up
with, and the time and energy you put into it...all for nothing! This
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Just an addendum...if the UUNET infrastructure ceased to exist, the
internet would be crippled. The name changes, but the infrastructure
remains the same. I had trouble setting up a new phone with alltel
last week because they were integrating verison into their system.
Another 30 seconds...you earn a gold star!
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