Since your mind is too inflexible to understand top posting, I'll make
it simpler for you:
Your most recent posting is also replied to in "the manner you are
accustomed to, below, in chronological order, so as to not further
confuse you:
Ben said:
so non-for-sale Usenet newsgroups, especially this one, OK? I'll post
stuff I cloned to make people ooh & aah over it imagining that it must
be legitimate. It will cost about $5 to make in its cheap plastic box
with pretty flashing lights so I can put a 1000% markup on it just like
the big boys. I'll claim, "Look What I Found" so it sounds even more
realistic. I'll post the link on Usenet when there are 0 bids, 4 views,
with 22 hours in the auction. I'll ship from an unknown location in
another country so indeed it looks so real. I won' echo any questions
about it from anyone curious wanting to know more.
Arthur Entlich replies:
I can't verify if the device offered is real or not, but then again,
I doubt if you can either. The particular posting was for a device that
would be of some interest to many people who read this newsgroup, since
the issues of the ability to refill or reset Canon's recent inkjet
cartridges comes up quite often.
People who use hyperbole to try to justify one targeted and relevant
instance of something and make it sound like the sky is going to fall
end up sounding like chicken little, and quite honestly are as annoying
as people who have nothing of value to add to a newsgroup except to
b*tch. In some cases, they may even be one in the same... ;-)
This was a one of posting, potentially regarding a relevant item, and
the poster doesn't appear to have anything to do with the sale of the
item in question, he was edifying the group.without complying to standard Usenet posting conventions and then you
have the nerve to bring up contributions and this newsgroup's charter in
what can only be described a vain attempt to suit your special purpose.
How do you reason this? "I can post in direct violation of proper
procedure and then jump in someone's shit if they rub me the wrong way?"
Arthur Entlich Replies:
I have explained numerous times why I use top posting. It is a common
usage in many groups including UseNet groups, and there is logic to it
for the type of posting I do. You are among a VERY few who care or
complain about it. Most people seem to be able to get their heads around
it without going into seizures. Or they are invited to filter my posts
from their reader. While you complain about my horrific deed of top
posting, you don't mention how many people read this group because I do
"reside" here. I get private emails to that effect fairly regularly.buy it.
Arthur Entlich replies:
Oh, by the way, rather than buy the device (I don't own any Canon
printers, so I have no personal need for it) I used the money and I
bought this newsgroup, and as of today, everyone MUST top post or they
will be banned. (I better explain to you that the proceeding is a joke,
or you may get the UseNet gods after me and my computers clock will go
back to Jan 1, 1980, or something). ;-)
And now to your last posting:
Ben said:
<Deleted everything not worth repeating>
Whoa, that totally flew over your head!
Hardly, I replied to your comments exactly, maybe you don't know how to
write what you mean, if I didn't "get it" ;-)? I sure do.
If you want to play net-nanny then practice what you preach or STFU.
I do practice what I preach. I preach edifying people with useful
information, and not getting hung up in the idiocy of questionable
protocol. I preach trying to answer questions when I know I can be
helpful, with knowledgeable and accurate information, and when I have
made an erroneous statement, I attempt to correct it as soon as I become
aware of it. I preach vastly overly balancing my O.T. statements with on
topic and useful information and content to this Usenet group. I preach
being a useful member of a internet group, rather than showing up only
to b*tch and moan about some small and not even clear infraction of
someone's sense of the correct content on a newsgroup. I preach to try
to correct misinformation when I become aware of it so that people
aren't mislead in areas where it could prove harmful or costly to them.
If you want to cry foul then do it without bias or STFU.
My only bias is with small-minded, anal retentive individuals who are so
hung up with form that they have no understanding of function; people
who find NO other purpose to post and contribute to a group other then
to complain about something or someone, and those who intentionally
mislead others with malicious intent.
If you want to hide behind rules then hide behind all of the rules or
STFU.
I'm not hiding behind anything. I post my email address regularly. The
name I use is the one I was given at birth. Anyone can contact me off
line, and many thousands do each year, and in all those thousands, I can
count on one hand the number of people who have anything but positive
comments or requests for help to send me.
I see no point continuing a conversation with your greater-than-thou
attitude.
Well, we've agreed on one thing then... there is no point to continue
this conversation. Oh, one more thing, I preach filtering out people
who post useless annoying messages who provide no valuable content.
So, *ploink*
Please! do the same for me!
Thank you!
Have a NICE DAY.
Art
PS: In all the tens of thousands of postings and emails which I have
written, I have never asked/told anyone to STFU. Is vulgarity part of
your Usenet protocol?
