Re: What the heck?

Purpose? As with so many things these days its only purpose is to annoy, I
suspect.

I must be getting old. I do wonder about the wisdom of the gods in allowing
radios to be placed in automobiles and on some days wonder about the wisdom
of doing away with horses. Remember the days when computers would yield
paperless offices and open windows to the world? We forgot that open
windows let mosquitoes in...

Earlier today, in conversation with one younger than I by far, I remarked on
how a Safeway was at one time no bigger than a 7-11 is today, before frozen
food and ten thousand types of cereal. Spaghetti was an exotic food. Where
I grew up, maple syrup came in five gallon cans once a year by CP, apples in
wooden boxes by CN and fish in ice, all by steam train. The fun of heading
down to the station to get the annual supply in a Studebaker. A nickel got
you a chocolate bar or a Coke. Houses could be had for five figures if not
four. Presidents and Prime Ministers were good and one might, on occasion,
invite a politician over for dinner.

Truly I am close to swimming with the fishes...

Willow


"Spuddie" <spuddie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ps92c3pv2dfriciel6jp3i3qcnegg46oo7@xxxxxxxxxx
In the wee hours of Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:03:26 -0700 a bus carrying
only the charming doppelganger of Kat R <null.space@xxxxxxxxx>
screeched to a halt as these words were uttered with glee:

Barbara Wolfe wrote:
Where did the hundreds and hundreds of crap messages come from?
I couldn't figure out why there were 2700 new ones to download, but
now I know. I wish there were better ng filters.

Barbara

It's a phenomenon called "sporgeing" and it's a form of spam, but to
what purpose, I've never understood. If your newsreader can filter on
a "newsgroup" header or filter out cross-posts set it to filter out
anything posted to sci.crypt or with sci.crypt in the newsgroup header.

Alas mine doesn't do this, so I've had to just ignore them.

Ah do so love my Agent...I would never even have known they were there
if not for all the threads asking about them.

Cheryl
~~~Jesus this, Moses that, Abraham hit me with a wiffle-ball bat~~~
(The Bishop in "Little Nicky")


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