Hey, don't get so uppity! It's not that I don't like it, as if that would have anything to do with it. I was merely surprised that you weren't aware of this fact. However, since you don't deal in electronics every single day it is understandable.
My apologies for offending you.
-- Peter Jakacki
DM McGowan II wrote:
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Maybe I should only browse news after dinner. :-)
You have a sadly warped idea of newsgroups. Everything is public. Replies are not directed at anyone in particular. If you want privacy, use e-mail, and you *may* attain your desire. This is public partly because correcting your misapprehensions may be instructive to someone misinformed by your article.
This is a public forum?
"DM McGowan II" '
Anybody with Internet access can read this newsgroup, and a zillion others, either with a news reader or through groups.google.com.
It is not a forum. It is an international newsgroup. What you write is disseminated all over the world to various news servers, which hold the message for some period of time and allow anyone to read it. Some servers will apply their own rules to avoid misuse, such as discarding messages with excessive cross-posting, attachments, or html content.
Except that those befuddled users who post using the X-No-archive header ensure that nobody can ever read their immortal words through google.
That was polite sarcasm gentlemen. :-)
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