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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:36:29 +0100, "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:35:23 +0100, Alley00p <alley00p@mesazoic.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:47:22 +0100, "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:40:45 +0100, (akula) <akula@sharks.plc.ltd> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:21:53 +0100, "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:45:56 +0100, (akula) <akula@sharks.plc.ltd> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:18:53 +0000 (UTC), Chris Caputo
>>>>>> <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you ever stop to think just how stupid that is?  IF your servers
>>>>>> ever attain two years text retention, that means that if one were to
>>>>>> download headers from, say, alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.0-day two years
>>>>>> from now, they would see a million REQ: dating back up to two
>>>>>> years...just as an example.  Who the frig wants to waddle through all
>>>>>> those expired text posts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess people have come to expect such moronic reasoning from you,
>>>>>> Chris.  That's just one of many reasons why your NSP is third-rate.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are groups containing both chat and images.
>>>>
>>>> You're a fast learner, Chris.  They're called binary groups.
>>>>
>>>>> Why remove the chat before necessary?
>>>>
>>>> "Before necessary" what?  You get an 'F' in English.
>>>
>>> Short for "before it is necessary to do so", ffs.
>>>
>>
>> (g) now, where oh where have I seen that 'ffs" used recently?
>
>There's an acronym site somwhere that'll help you newbies.
>

oh, for fucks sakes - we doan need no steenkin' afronym site - we jus'
a-pointin' outz how familiar dat der "ffs" be fromz anuder
poster/poser.

(g) but yew knew that - jus' a-tryin to shuck us along now, weren't
ya!

>>>> People that regularly follow any binary group (I suppose you're
>>>> referencing the many picture groups, whether porn or otherwise) read
>>>> the chit-chat and they're done with it, especially considering that
>>>> the vast majority of "chat" in a binary group consists of REQ:.
>>>>
>>>> Once that REQ: is filled, there is no need to retain the text.  Even
>>>> still, most binary groups are comprised of an ever-changing population
>>>> of posters and leechers.  That fact renders most 'conversations' in
>>>> such groups meaningless after a few months at the most.
>>>>
>>>> Besides, most downloaders don't give a rat's ass about what some moron
>>>> named RedDog who posts from a Verizon account thinks.  They are there
>>>> to download pics and videos.
>>>>
>>>> Most busy binary groups or hierarchies, such as the .mp3 and warez
>>>> hierarchies have their own discussion groups.  Many of the major porn
>>>> groups have their own discussion groups, as do the mainstream movie
>>>> groups, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Given all the above, there is absolutely *no* reason to retain text in
>>>> any binary group longer than the binary files themselves.  To do so
>>>> would only serve to clutter up a BINARY group whose only purpose is to
>>>> provide a means of sharing BINARY files, not text.
>>>
>>> Some groups aren't binary or text, they are BOTH.
>>>
>>
>> Ah! no shit!
>>
>> idiot.
>
>It wasn't a statement it was a hint.
>

Yeah, well mine was a statemnet - IDIOT.

>>>> People don't subscribe to a BINARY group to look at the rants and
>>>> raves of a control-freak named RedDog.  In such an instance, one DAY
>>>> of retention is too long...and you would like to retain such idiocy
>>>> for two YEARS or longer?
>>>>
>>>> As you are so fond of saying, Chris, once the reason(s) for
>>>> subscribing to a group no longer exist, it will die (loose
>>>> translation).  Clutter up a binary group with tons of old, meaningless
>>>> text files dating back two years or longer and see what happens.
>>>
>>> How about looking for a solution to a problem with something in one of the many microsoft.* groups for example?
>>>
>>
>> They have no problem - unless you're referring to yourself.
>
>You misunderstood my sentence, try again.
>

I understood it perfectly well - you only wish I didn't.

>>>> That is why first-rate NSPs expire text files along with binary files.
>>>> Trust me, the issue has been well-thought out and researched by news
>>>> admins with far superior intellects to yours, Chris.
>>>
>>> If he set everything to expire at the same time, I'd most likely leave for another provider.  I don't want the text disappearing very quickly just so people can get binaries for longer.  I might be on holiday for a couple of weeks for example.
>>>
>>
>> asswipe, the time frame was "text files dating back two years or
>> longer"
>
>So?
>

So?

>>> P.S. is your brain too small to fit two people in there?  I ain't Chris and never have been, you're almost as dimwitted as the two trolls in here.
>>
>> hey asswipe, is your brain large enough to fit two people in there?
>
>Using the same insult straight back is the work of a child.  Do try to grow up.

I insist at keeping myself at your intellectual level.