Wayne E. Nail posted on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:42 -0500 as excerpted:
[claims:]
>> On Tuesday November 3 2009, Fred said:
>> > blah blah blah
>>
>> this poster uses:
>>
>> * Fred:
>> > blah blah blah
>>
>> claims it is "clearer" [and predates the former]
>>
>> I can't say I've ever seen this,
On Monday 02 November 2009 10:49 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I can't say I've ever seen this, but I've only been using Usenet for
> 15-odd years, so not an old-timer. Any old-timers ever seen this and
> like to comment?
I don't go back to the very beginning of Usenet (I didn't have a computer
wh
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:49 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Forgive the off-topic post, but over on a newsgroup I frequent, one of
> the old-timers made a claim that "*" was frequently used for
> attributions back in the Good Old Days before the current crop
> of "lesser quality" newsreaders. In
Forgive the off-topic post, but over on a newsgroup I frequent, one of
the old-timers made a claim that "*" was frequently used for
attributions back in the Good Old Days before the current crop
of "lesser quality" newsreaders. Instead of:
On Tuesday November 3 2009, Fred said:
> blah blah blah
I've been posting with Pan via gmane to its fedora.general (a
version of a redhat list) for about as long as there has been a Fedora OS
-- and suddenly I have troubles.
I have tried at least three times to post a question about an app
called qgis -- and neither my posts nor any
