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from: Nospam.4.Docmill{at}spamgourmet.Com
date: 2004-09-14 05:35:48
subject: Re: Kinder Gentler America Tour

From: docmill 
Newsgroups: alt.moose.rights

guido.testosteroni{at}f127.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Guido Testosteroni) wrote
in news:MqednZtDn-epxNvcRVn-oQ{at}io.com: 

> Hello there Nospam.4.Docmill{at}spamgourmet.Com,
> 
> In a msg of , Nospam.4.Docmill{at}spamgourmet.Com wrote to
> All: 
> 
>  ND> Auh, this is usenet, if your org was posted, they need to do the
>  ND> screening. Your gateway policy must mean something to somebody,
>  but 
> if the
> 
> They are screening, at the FidoNet node that "gates" the FidoNet
> message area called MooseChat to-and-from the alt.moose.rights UseNet
> newsgroup.  You're replying to a message informing you of that, dude.
> 
Last I checked, it was still usenet.   

>  ND> usenet posts are being posted wherever your wonderland is, then
>  it's 
> your
> 
> Perhaps you've misunderstood.  If I read the message you're replying
> to correctly, the gateway system operator was trying to do you a
> favor. 
> 
It's still usenet.  Who said I wanted to reply to Fidonet?

> It looks like you have replied to a few MooseChat messages that have
> been "gated" to alt.moose.rights, but your replies contained "bad
> words" that meant your messages could not be gated back to MooseChat.
> So, you've taken the trouble to reply to some MooseChat messages, but
> the people you're following-up do not see your replies because of a
> few "bad words".  That seems a shame, because you seem like someone
> who could either be witty (or make a point) without needing to use
> bad language.
> 
I have no control on replies going anywhere other than this group.  Unless 
I x-post them.

>  ND> problem. Get off the net or move your fido to the yahoo messaging
>  ND> groups,if you can't stand the whole world posting their opinion. 
>  Just 
> as
> 
> On the flip side, now that you know the situation, you could give up a
> few possibly offensive words in order to ensure that your reply gets
> through to any fidonet.org people who wrote messages you follow-up on.

I'm not posting to fidonet.org people.  
> 
> Of course, knowing the situation, you also have the option of posting
> "witty" replies containing offensive language and know that you need
> not worry about a fidonet.org follow-up because your "wit" will not
> get through.

Haven't you got it by know?
> 
>  ND> a note for the ignorant, the post in question was not x-posted.
>  Some 
> 
> Right.  It was not x-posted.  It was also not "gated" to MooseChat.
> 
>  ND> people have no idea how usenet works, and would be better off
>  reading 
> the
>  ND> newpaper instead of newsgroup posts.
> 
> Friendly sort, aren't you?  I've an alternative suggestion.  Since
> MooseChat participation is falling, and since alt.moose.rights was
> doing a great imitation of an almost dead newsgroup before the
> fidonet.org "gating" of MooseChat started a small amount of synergy
> between the two message areas, why not try and compromise?

What are you taking personally?
You feel something pointed at you?
> 
> Why not give up a few words, which your message shows you obviously
> do not need in order to be witty, and help both message areas stay
> alive?
> 
Give up a word or 2 to be critisized by an unseen group that filters free 
speech to satisfy their sense of a usenet for everyone.  OK flog me.

> Of course, you could just "killfile" any alt.moose.rights posts with
> fidonet.org in the from line.  Now, _that_ would certainly prove
> that _you_ actually know how UseNet newsgroups work.
> 
Sorry, I don't plonk, and if you think, I can make this reply come from 
alt.test.    
> Meanwhile, as an example of possible compromise, I've managed
> what is apparently the appropriate UseNet attitude of being obnoxious
> without using any words that would cause FidoNet admin types any
> grief.  Are you up to that challenge, too?  
> 
Sure, let's see if we can't make the fido admin grin, and think they have 
another day of usenet policy in hand. 
(Bastards)



> Respectfully yours,
> 
>                  Guido Testosteroni
> 
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