Re: Accordions and this community became infected by strange bacteria
- From: dnichols@xxxxxxxxxxx (DoN. Nichols)
- Date: 5 May 2006 23:34:15 GMT
According to w.d. <wjd40@xxxxxxxx>:
[ ... ]
I don't think that Tommy Velinchak will do it anyway, exactly as
he says using that example. He might got drunk or got some money
to buy "crock" and got this idea in high state of mind. I wonder
how long Don Nichols will tolerate those posting that infiltrate
this FORUM on every occasion, nip on one or wo or other people at
their expense that don't agree even in minor ways. Don Nichols
should shut his access to this forum and this would be the end.
I have *no* control over the usenet newsgroup. What control I
*used* to have was over what could make it through the gateway between
the usenet newsgroup rec.music.makers.squeezebox, and the yahoogroups
squeezebox mailing list. That gateway is now dead, and all of this
activity is taking place purely in the usenet newsgroup
rec.music.makers.squeezebox.
Usenet is an anarchy, and there is *no* way that I, or anyone
else, can control the postings of any individual to the newsgroup. (If
it had been formed as a moderated newsgroup, then whoever was the
moderator could have such control, but it wasn't, so there is no such
control.
Granted, it would be technically possible to forge cancels for
his postings, but if I were to do that, *I* would be in the wrong, not
he.
Why Don Nichols did that 3-4 years go? I do not understand what's
going on and what is the purpose of keeping that going?
I *can't* control who posts here -- and neither can anyone else.
If someone gets obnoxious enough, his own ISP might pull his account,
but that would not keep him from getting another account somewhere and
continuing.
This entire group and every member who signed up for and is
currently listed as a member might be liable for his activities by
association, just like it happens in all clubs and organizations.
Indeed this is a very serious matter. Saying this I distance myself
from this Forum and I ask Don Nichols to remove all my post good and
bad ones from the archives of this FORUM.
You keep talking as though this is a web based forum, or a
mailing list, where there is a single point at which all articles can be
controlled. It is not. Usenet is (as I said) an anarchy -- composed of
thousands of news servers, each of which retain articles for a period of
time controlled only for that individual news server. Others have
longer or shorter retention times. When I was running a news server, I
had the retention time set to 30 days, and it has been far longer than
that, so all of your articles which were in that news spool have all
expired. And even if they still existed, and I were to delete them
immediately -- that still has no effect on any of the other usenet news
servers around the world.
Individuals may have made a practice of saving all articles
posted by anybody, and if so, you would need to talk to them,
individually, to destroy their archives -- and you would have no legal
grounds to enforce that request.
Of course, dejanews used to archive every article, except those
which had set the "X-No-Archive: " header to true. dejanews is no
longer, and Google has taken over that task. Good luck in trying to get
them to delete your archived articles.
I will be no longer
participating in this group, therefore please remove my name from the
list of members and cut my access to this FORUM as of today.
There is *no* "list of members". Each individual uses a
newsreader to access this newsgroup, and all others. In that
newsreader, is a file (on most unix based systems, that file is called
".newsrc". I have no idea what the hundreds of newsreaders on Windows
or Macs may call the files -- but they are on *your* computer, not mine,
and not on any of the servers. It is up to *your* newsreader to access
a given newsgroup which *you* have indicated that you have an interest
in. *You* have to have told it that you are interested, and acting on
your behalf, the newsreader will check whatever news server you use to
download the articles which it believes that you have not yet read. The
news servers keep no lists, and have no idea who you are. The log files
may record the IP address from which you access things, but certainly
not your name.
If you are using a for-pay news server, such as newsguy (which
is what *I* am using currently), you will have a username and password
which your newsreader uses to access the articles -- but I strongly
doubt that anyone bothers to keep such logs. Even when I was running a
news server, *you* were not able to access my server (nor could anyone
else outside of my systems), so you would not show up in my logs.
If you are using a web-based system to access usenet news
articles, such as "google groups", I have no idea what they may log, but
I suspect that it will be very little.
In any way this is the web page of Memphis Police Department to
write complain against this individual. I suspect that he uses this
web page to send hidden messages for shipment and distribution of
illegal stuff.
This is web page of Memphis Police Department
http://www.memphispolice.org/
Now -- you are beginning to sound rather paranoid. I think that
I will stop typing at this point.
I would suggest that you seek psychiatric help. (I think that
Tommy should as well, but that is a different matter.)
DoN.
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