(Snowbird) wrote
snip

that pac wrote:
Message-ID:
The current function of
a newsgroup is really multi-faceted: its entertainment and
socializing, interupted by galactically stupid questions from mere
mortals that have nothing better to do than interupt our fine
conversations... he, he. ;-)

Hmmmmmm. "internet student" who has lurked on newsgroups since
1995 and who delivers erudite lectures about the function of
newsgroups.

Yeah. Right.
Sydney


Hmmmm, I don't know that word: erudite. (BOb?) But Too-Che'
Snowbird, I was talking out of my ass on that one. You guys should
have more vigorously dissented if you did not agree with my crap. But
as I recall, and I'm not going to look it up, some of the posters
agreed with me in that thread, if I recall correctly.

In 1995, 96? can't remember now, newbies like me got nescape 1.0 and
tried to make it work. The assumption that I would spend time to read
only RAH is not plausible. I would check-in mainly every blue moon to
see what tall tales from BWB were on line. If the sparring became
unfunny, I would do another newsgroup the next time. I guess it's
like seeing the last 20 minutes of a movie. It was hard to figure
out what was going on.

You also may be assuming that I had a connection like yours in the
U.S. A lot of pages took 20-40 minutes to load. It got better for a
little while, then it got way worse. I can tell you have never lived
in the third world. (no offence intended.) And for several years
there it was totally unusable at all. We had daily power outages and
the water became unsafe. Internet was the last thing on the list to
fix in that hell-hole.

Is that your real email up there? I'll send pictures of who I am.
(not trying to publically embarrass you at all Syd, I sent the same
thing to BWB and Del.

Then my work here will be done, and you regulars who know everything
about Usenet can reassert your strangling dominance over RAH and duke
it out to the death. ;-) Just kidding.

Cheers,

pacmad the unknown sock puppet

or

the good saint badmouthplyer, take your pick

(just trying to entertain you pudknockers!)