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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/22/06 03:33
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:43:08 +1100, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <pan.2006.01.21.05.25.17.83348@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> >> That would be his news client. Does that make this a web site?
>> >>
>> >>
>> > He said "site", this is a bit vaguer. And the context showed what he
>> > wanted. A guy is contacting his newsgroup and getting articles, he is
>> > reading articles. He is on his computer, reading articles that have
>> > come down, he is on his newsreader program, and he is
>> > very-close-to-being-in-contact/has recently been in content with a
>> > computer that holds the posted articles. It - yes "it", go figure -
>> > feels like being in a big room where we all come and go, leave
>> > messages and hang around or not, we talk to each other, except that
>> > there are a few time delays and stuff. The room is the site.
>>
>> The "room" in your context (which is not a "room" in the chat context
>> which other newbs erroneously call everything they see) is a Usenet
>> newsgroup.
>>
>>
> I don't know about "my" context. I was trying to get across to you that he
> was vague about this business of the site and that it did _not_ matter for
> his question. I have failed to do this properly and I am going out to get
Of course it didn't. I never said or implied that it did.
> a 2" by 4" piece of hardwood timber and see if I can pay someone to give
> me a good working over. (Like the one of Dirty Harry's quarries who paid
> Morgan Freeman (was it?) to knuckle him over)
>
>> > You are a sensible man. I have not doubted it. And very helpful. And
>> > knowledgeable about fish. Relax. Go fishin' even...
>>
>> And I will help OP figure out that this is a newsgroup and not a web
>> site
>
> Even though he did not say website. Where's that piece of timber?
I will help OP figure out that this is a newsgroup and not a site.
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