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Re: Altopia announces SSL and unthrottled service

#101
From: George G
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:56
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ah <splifingate@gmail.com> wrote in
news:47f73b4e$0$13861$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com: 

> Peter Hucker wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:19:24 -0000, George G
>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: 
>> 
>>> "Peter Hucker" <none@spam.com> wrote in
>>> news:op.t8dwr4kd4buhsv@fx62:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:31:03 -0000, George G
>>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote in
>>>>> news:1ie5uv1.krcdhztc02xzN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk:
>>>>>
>>>>>> George G <invali@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Black Dragon <bd@nomail.invalid> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:fs0h23$2gsq$1@bdhi.local:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > George G wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >> I've seen many a perfectly good newsgroup ruined by
>>>>>>> >> your customers thanks to that policy.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > People who set cross posts to irrelevant newsgroups
>>>>>>> > are far more responsible for noise on Usenet than a
>>>>>>> > few nym shifters are. One of those people are in fact
>>>>>>> > you. Congratulations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> uk.net.news.config is not an irrelevant newsgroup as
>>>>>>> many NGs in the uk hierarchy have fallen victim to
>>>>>>> Altopia trolls.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was completely irrelevant to your rant against an
>>>>>> individual (Chris Caputo) and your post is most
>>>>>> definitely off-topic here since it has nothing to do with
>>>>>> the configuration of the uk hierarchy.
>>>>>
>>>>> It wasn't a rant, it was a statement of fact. Strictly
>>>>> speaking it is probably off-topic; however, off-topic
>>>>> posts account for a large proportion of unnc.
>>>>>
>>>>>> (Follow-ups set to altnet.general)
>>>>>
>>>>> Follow-ups reset. Anyone replying to this post can remove
>>>>> unnc if they chose to.
>>>>
>>>> I propose the news server strips the "follow-up" header. 
>>>> If you want to change the groups it goes to, then do so in
>>>> the newsgroups header, people should not be able to post to
>>>> one set, and have replies go elsewhere.  It's childish.
>>>
>>> Take it up with Steve Firth.
>> 
>> For some reason I can't see Steve's posts....
> 
> You have to be a member of the Inner Circle.

You have to be using a decent NSP.
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Subject: Re: Altopia announces SSL and unthrottled service
From: George G <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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