🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Yuk96AA5H1uxEw8x@cands.demon.co.uk>
           Gerald@cands.demon.co.uk "Gerald Bruce" writes:

> In article <9606090427.1x7x@pierrot.demon.co.uk>, Terrance Richard Boyes
> <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Oliver D. Jones (O.D.Jones@critter.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> >
> >More complete nonsense about childhood machines, keep this crap out of dis
> >at least,  whether it's appropriate to the other groups that the original
> >off topic post was sent to I'll leave up to them to decide...
> >
> Out of the 50 or so news items I download from this newsgroup, only 1
> person complained about being off topic (which it isn't). There is
> always one ?????

In which group did you read the thread?  In case you were ignorant of the
fact, the articles are being posted to all these newsgroups:
comp.os.ms-windows.misc, uk.comp.os.win95, demon.adverts, demon.service,
demon.tech.pc.  Quite frankly, of those newsgroups, the only place in
which a forsale notice (such as originally triggered the thread) would be
on-topic is in demon.adverts.  I find it hard to believe that you were
compelled to make your response, given that tez mentioned in his article
that the thread was cross-posted: you should surely have known that with
such cross-posting, there was every likelihood that postings would be
off-topic in some of the groups.

Some of the discussion (or "childhood reminiscences", as the previous
poster called them) might be relevant in the OS groups, and possibly
d.t.pc.  It's *definitely* off-topic in demon.service, and even in
demon.adverts (that's because *NO* discussion belongs in d.a; all follow-
ups are supposed to be directed to demon.adverts.d; accordingly, I've
diverted follow-ups to that group vice d.a, but left the other groups
intact.)

> I may be wrong but I haven't seen any other postings from you, is this
> the only contribution you have. Anyway no reply will be given as that
> would be off topic now, wouldn't it.

FYI, tez is a frequent and (mostly) respected contributor to a number of
the Demon newsgroups.  So one must assume that you were reading the
articles in one of the other newsgroups; although I find it hard to
believe that as a Demon customer yourself you haven't previously run
across tez.

> Sad man.

You are indeed.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                       "A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"    
                                                          --  Samuel Johnson