Various Topics on Programming

..Falcon..

For the past week I have been collecting data on the relative
incidence of crud in the 18 newsgroups I monitor. Here crud is
defined as anything that gets caught by my filters, and good is
anything that p***es them. The results follow:

date | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat
---- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Bad | 96 | 108 | 93 | 100 | 101 | 135 | 101 | 74
Good | 387 | 388 | 598 | 519 | 550 | 643 | 409 | 402

The figures confirm my belief that traffic falls off over the
weekend. It does NOT confirm my attitude that crud drops off at
the same time.

My filters are arranged to prevent down-loading when identified.

I have set follow-ups to comp.programming, which is under-utilized
and fairly liberal as to content. It is also universally
available. Please do not alter this.

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..n ..

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:54:52 -0400, CBFalconer wrote:

> For the past week I have been collecting data on the relative
> incidence of crud in the 18 newsgroups I monitor. Here crud is
> defined as anything that gets caught by my filters, and good is
> anything that p***es them. The results follow:
>
> date | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat
> ---- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
> Bad | 96 | 108 | 93 | 100 | 101 | 135 | 101 | 74
> Good | 387 | 388 | 598 | 519 | 550 | 643 | 409 | 402
>
> The figures confirm my belief that traffic falls off over the
> weekend. It does NOT confirm my attitude that crud drops off at
> the same time.

There are 8 days in a week in the world you live in? Perhaps if you added
the two Saturdays together you'd see that your "theory" is total ****,
just like everything else you post.

Bugger off and fix your non-compliant signature block, doofus.



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..y ..hestowi..

____/ Dan C on Sunday 17 June 2007 16:59 : \____

> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:54:52 -0400, CBFalconer wrote:
>
>> For the past week I have been collecting data on the relative
>> incidence of crud in the 18 newsgroups I monitor. Here crud is
>> defined as anything that gets caught by my filters, and good is
>> anything that p***es them. The results follow:
>>
>> date | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat
>> ---- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
>> Bad | 96 | 108 | 93 | 100 | 101 | 135 | 101 | 74
>> Good | 387 | 388 | 598 | 519 | 550 | 643 | 409 | 402
>>
>> The figures confirm my belief that traffic falls off over the
>> weekend. It does NOT confirm my attitude that crud drops off at
>> the same time.
>
> There are 8 days in a week in the world you live in? Perhaps if you added
> the two Saturdays together you'd see that your "theory" is total ****,
> just like everything else you post.
>
> Bugger off and fix your non-compliant signature block, doofus.

It seems to be compliant. The 5th and 6th line are appended by the server.

I see you're still having fun ridiculing others. You haven't changed a bit.

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..n ..

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:31:26 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>> Bugger off and fix your non-compliant signature block, doofus.

> It seems to be compliant. The 5th and 6th line are appended by the server.

You mean the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th lines, right? It's not real important
how the lines got there, the signature block is non-compliant in either
case. He's been asked repeatedly by many people, in many newsgroups, to
fix this, and refuses to do it.

And you think I'm the ***hole?

> I see you're still having fun ridiculing others. You haven't changed a bit.

I'm not "ridiculing" him. I'm pointing out something that needs
correcting. I guess you don't notice him constantly correcting others on
their posting netiquette, while all the while using that non-compliant sig
block. How hypocritical (of both of you).


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..Falcon..

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Dan C on Sunday 17 June 2007 16:59 :
>
.... snip ...
>
>> Bugger off and fix your non-compliant signature block, doofus.
>
> It seems to be compliant. The 5th and 6th line are appended by
> the server.
>
> I see you're still having fun ridiculing others. You haven't
> changed a bit.

However it gets him listed in many PLONK files.

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..dr..

Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> writes:

> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:31:26 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>> Bugger off and fix your non-compliant signature block, doofus.
>
>> It seems to be compliant. The 5th and 6th line are appended by the server.
>
> You mean the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th lines, right? It's not real important
> how the lines got there, the signature block is non-compliant in either
> case. He's been asked repeatedly by many people, in many newsgroups, to
> fix this, and refuses to do it.
>
> And you think I'm the ***hole?
>
>> I see you're still having fun ridiculing others. You haven't changed a bit.
>
> I'm not "ridiculing" him. I'm pointing out something that needs
> correcting. I guess you don't notice him constantly correcting others on
> their posting netiquette, while all the while using that non-compliant sig
> block. How hypocritical (of both of you).

You must understand that Roy Schestowitz is a spamming moron. Only then
will you understand why he supports Falconer. Falconer seems totally
unable to understand that the faulty sigs ARE his fault. It is a snap
for him to move to another free nntp server - OR to simply remove his
petty, self serving "advice" signature which he is constantly flouting
at people.

..r..

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:46752F1C.FE5E50F8@yahoo.com...
> For the past week I have been collecting data on the relative
> incidence of crud in the 18 newsgroups I monitor. Here crud is
> defined as anything that gets caught by my filters, and good is
> anything that p***es them. The results follow:
>
> date | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat
> ---- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
> Bad | 96 | 108 | 93 | 100 | 101 | 135 | 101 | 74
> Good | 387 | 388 | 598 | 519 | 550 | 643 | 409 | 402
>
> The figures confirm my belief that traffic falls off over the
> weekend. It does NOT confirm my attitude that crud drops off at
> the same time.
>
> My filters are arranged to prevent down-loading when identified.
>
> I have set follow-ups to comp.programming, which is under-utilized
> and fairly liberal as to content. It is also universally
> available. Please do not alter this.

Of course this is all OT, but have you ever tried to correlate the
"crud" to the beginning and ending of school semesters?

..che.. .. ..Ca..

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:46752F1C.FE5E50F8@yahoo.com...

> The figures confirm my belief that traffic falls off over the
> weekend. It does NOT confirm my attitude that crud drops off at
> the same time.

How much of this crud is being generated by spam-bots that continue to work
on weekends?

Other crud, generated by humans that actually have to hit SEND, might
actually increase on the weekends as people who lack "a life" have more free
time to annoy the denizens of usenet.

Meanwhile, the number of good, relevant posts actually drops over the
weekend as people with family and social obligations don't have time to play
with their computers.

In my own case, I often have "free time" during the week when I'm not
working. The weekends are generally so hectic that I'm glad to go back to
work on Monday.

Just some observations...

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