Re: Sawtooth G4 PSU disaster

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:44:25 +0000, Rowland McDonnell wrote:

Avalon <avalon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Avalon<avalon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David Tyler wrote:
Hello all,
I've been away from this group for most of the last 10 years, whilst I
have been living in the USA. Now I'm back, and my first posting is the
predictable one:

Is it illegal to post from the US to uk.comp.sys.mac?

How could it be illegal?

My understanding is you could post from anywhere in the world!

[snip]

You need to read the charter, you do.

<http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.comp.sys.mac.html>

- in other words, your understanding is entirely correct.

Rowland.

<rolls eyes>.... it was a *Joke*!

I see - perhaps you should learn about the application of the smiley?

Check the charter for this group. Since you created this group, something
for which we're all deeply indebted to you, why didn't you include
something on the proper use of smilies? :)


The thing is that it's impossible on Usenet to pick up on the normal
cues of facial expression and tone of voice (etc) that would tell
someone in real life that you were joking, so it's necessary to use some
other means of flagging dead-pan humour.

/humour on/
What a wonderful idea. What about using this format to alert the
humour-challenged curmudgeons who don't understand or like people?
/humour off/



The reason for that can be illustrated using this thread as an example:

While *you* knew you were joking, I thought you might merely have been
stupid and ignorant. If you'd added the smiley, I wouldn't have made
that mistake.

You're being deliberately pig-headed and obstructionist again. You have
misinterpreted everything. Do you have any proof?


I still can't see any actual *joke* in progress, but I can accept that
you had humorous intent and so are not guilty of idiocy and ignorance
(in this case, anyway - we're all idiots from time to time).

Rowland.

In your case, you are an idiot most of the time. :)

--
"But I think that dismissing someone with `Whatever' is the most
antisocial and enraging way of dismissing someone that's ever been
developed, and should be considered an acceptable reason by the courts
for punching somone in the face."
Rowland McDonnell on justice - Sept 10, 2007
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