Worst weather, ever...

Ok, now here's a good one.... Freezing drizzle advisory this morning
changing to rain in the afternoon with warmer (35F) temps. So most of the
area's schools were 2 hours delayed. Township roads were pretty slippery,
County and state roads were fine. So what does our local school do????
No
delay, send the busses out this morning on the ice THEN declare they will
cancel school... When??? at 1pm!!! Just so they can call it a full day
towards their 180 school days. And what's the weather now at 2:45?? 35
degrees and rain, roads are clear... un freakin real.

They did that here, too. They cancelled school at 2PM (one hour early),
causing untold grief for thousands of parents.

What's the weather? It's 36 degree here, and raining. That's RAINING.
It's predicted to freeze later tonight.

At first I thought the school district was being overly cautious. I now
realize they are merely lazy, stupid idiots.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

wrote in message
oups.com...

Not that strange. What's happening is Jon sends the first post,
which takes off into Usenet and starts appearing on other servers.
Then he sends the corrected post, which is a separate item and also
gets distributed to the Usenet servers. That's when you see two
seemingly identical posts. The second post is followed by a cancel of
the first post, which (eventually) removes the original post from some
servers. Some people might always see both posts, as some Usenet
servers do not accept cancel commands.
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


And MANY servers don't accept CANCEL messages.

Not that strange. What's happening is Jon sends the first post,
which takes off into Usenet and starts appearing on other servers.
Then he sends the corrected post, which is a separate item and also
gets distributed to the Usenet servers. That's when you see two
seemingly identical posts. The second post is followed by a cancel of
the first post, which (eventually) removes the original post from some
servers. Some people might always see both posts, as some Usenet
servers do not accept cancel commands.
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Ah....thanks John. I didn't realize you could cancel a previous post
(or, at least try to do so). And here I thought it was just Jon K's
evil plot to confuse folks out here in Usenet land. :-)

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL, IA Student, airplane partnership student

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

All I have to do is highlight the post I want to get rid of and hit the
"delete" key. It then asks if I am sure that I want to cancel this post
and I say yes. Try it and see if it works for you. Of course you can
only cancel your own posts. That is unless you change your identity,
then you can cancel anything you want whether it is your or not.

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Jack Allison wrote:
Not that strange. What's happening is Jon sends the first post,
which takes off into Usenet and starts appearing on other servers.
Then he sends the corrected post, which is a separate item and also
gets distributed to the Usenet servers. That's when you see two
seemingly identical posts. The second post is followed by a cancel of
the first post, which (eventually) removes the original post from some
servers. Some people might always see both posts, as some Usenet
servers do not accept cancel commands.
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


Ah....thanks John. I didn't realize you could cancel a previous post
(or, at least try to do so). And here I thought it was just Jon K's
evil plot to confuse folks out here in Usenet land. :-)

I've seen a number on Giganews but I thought it was people posting
from the beta Google.

Shows what I know.....

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:00:45 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

I have been getting many posts twice, (perhaps 25 %) but I think it is the
Charter news server, since the problem began just after they switched to and
nntp ? (I think) server. So is it me, or anyone else besides charter
customers having the problem?

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
. ..
Sometimes if I fat finger something and I catch it after it gets posted
I go back and do a "Edit as New" to the post and then delete the old
one. My newsgroup viewer (Netscape) doesn't show the deleted one but
maybe others do... Since I fat finger a lot it probably looks like a lot
of double postings... I'l try to be more careful...

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Peter R. wrote:
Jon Kraus ) wrote:


It looks like it is YOU YOU... I THINK THINK


No, no, it isn't just him!

In testament to the human brain's ability to take in information: I had
to
actually read this TWICE to realize each word is doubled.

I need an aspirin...

I didn't even realize it until I read your post and then went back to the
original post. Yikes.

Jon Kraus wrote:

All I have to do is highlight the post I want to get rid of and hit the
"delete" key. It then asks if I am sure that I want to cancel this post
and I say yes. Try it and see if it works for you. Of course you can
only cancel your own posts. That is unless you change your identity,
then you can cancel anything you want whether it is your or not.

Which is exactly why it no longer works on most servers.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Morgans wrote:

I have been getting many posts twice, (perhaps 25 %) but I think it is the
Charter news server, since the problem began just after they switched to and
nntp ? (I think) server. So is it me, or anyone else besides charter
customers having the problem?

I have seen quite a few posts that appear twice, but nowhere close to 25%. I'm
not on Charter.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"Never first attribute to malice that which can be explained by stark
stupidity."

Jim


At first I thought the school district was being overly cautious. I now
realize they are merely lazy, stupid idiots.

"Bob Moore" wrote in message
Yep! Here in the Tampabay area, it's been 75-80 degrees
every day this year. Not a single drop of precipitation
so far....kinda boring.

I had to do a Cat 2 autoland in Tampa Monday night.

D.