...by a post on Grognardia about Thief hate , I was prompted to track down the mini rant I posted on rec.games.frp.dnd way back in the day. Then I started looking at my other contributions to usenet. I think I had more that 34 posts (across 2 addresses) but what are you gonna do? Some favorites: My thief rant My “claim to fame” as host of the rgfd FAQ by aardy ...
So, having got back into usenet, I'm using Thunderbird, which is my regular email programme, as my news reader. This is fine apart from one highly irritating problem - it's very difficult to find new messages which are replies to earlier ones, because Thunderbird automatically collapses all the threads, and only highlights a thread as new if the top message of the thread is new. Consequently I know...
Back in the days when hardly anyone I knew was online and the interweb was a new and exciting place, for me at least (and it were all green fields 'round 'ere....), I used to spend a lot of time on usenet, chatting to people. These days, fb (and now LJ) largely fill that niche, but I miss usenet. fb and LJ are all about talking to existing friends - I don't meet new people there/here, I keep in touch...
In September, 1993 , AOL opened the Internet's floodgates by giving its customers access to Usenet . Since then, the usefulness of Usenet has steadily declined, much to the original users' dismay. In February of 2005, AOL ceased Usenet access through their service. Why? Because the Internet was so flooded with people who didn't care about Usenet that it was effectively useless to continue access...
Gene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University, is well-known for his aphorisms regarding the Internet. Coined in the early days, when one of the biggest online functions was Usenet, the word "Internet" or the phrase "World Wide Web" can easily replace "Usenet" in his axioms, and they will remain just as true. * Axiom #1: "The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does...
Web site: http://www.usenetvault.com UseNetVault brings a new spin to the [Bad username: usenet community. We've seen other vendors come into the market strong with account offerings but not to the extent of UseNetVault. They offer unlimited, metered and block (pool) accounts at a very competitive price. Their standard features (20 connections, SSL and 24/7 support)]
A new Usenet provider is tying its shoes and stretching, anticipating to hit the ground running into an already large and competitve market. UseNetVault is expecting to launch its usenet services on Monday, June 16th, 2008. Offering both monthly subscription accounts as well as slotted accounts, known as “pooled” or “bucket” accounts, allowing users to get prepaid accounts based on his/her...
...guide at Pre-Historic Forest, a now-closed tourist trap by my old house that was populated by fiberglass dinosaur statues. Now, I can play tour guide to the biggest freak show on the planet, USENET. Who says I don't have a coherent life story? You know you're a net.personality when there is a wiki editing war over you . Here's my f avorite quote from the discussion: " Talking about...
