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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2007Just a heads up (OT)
Folks here may not care but there are more and more irritating nonsense posts on other newsgroups and the majority of them are coming from gmail users. So I've just killfiled the entire domain (for the time being). School is about to let out (it's already out in some places) and it will only get worse. So if you're posting from a gmail address I won't see your posts unless someone replies to them. Sorry! Jill > Folks here may not care but there are more and more irritating nonsense > posts on other newsgroups and the majority of them are coming from gmail > users. So I've just killfiled the entire domain (for the time being). > School is about to let out (it's already out in some places) and it will > only get worse. So if you're posting from a gmail address I won't see your > posts unless someone replies to them. Sorry! I don't see that - on the other hand, there IS a lot of spam from groups.google.com (and the non-spam messages from there are so unreadably formatted you might want to killfile them anyway). The two services are independent. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 On May 18, 3:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Folks here may not care but there are more and more irritating nonsense > > posts on other newsgroups and the majority of them are coming from gmail [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > unreadably formatted you might want to killfile them anyway). The > two services are independent. I'm a (minority) Google groups poster. How do I come across? My posts I mean. Are they readable? How are they different from the ngs? I hear talk about this all the time and I've wondered. PatM > On May 18, 3:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address > <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > PatM Maybe to some extent what the readers see is dependent on their news reader or method. From where I sit, your posts are fine. I use a dedicated news reader. On the original topic, I haven't noticed a lot of gmail spam (but I probably will from now on. :-)  SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > On May 18, 3:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address > <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > PatM Your posts are fine, Pat. The ones I don't want to see are "britney spears boobs!" and similar things. Jill On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Folks here may not care but there are more and more irritating nonsense > > posts on other newsgroups and the majority of them are coming from gmail [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > unreadably formatted you might want to killfile them anyway). The > two services are independent. I don't see a real spam epidemic from either one. I did a quick check over the last five days, and there were four postings. Certainly not unmanageable to just ignore. Am I just not seeing them? > On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address > <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > unmanageable to > just ignore. Am I just not seeing them? I did say it's happening mostly in other ngs. And it's sad really; they are posting stuff about Britney Spears' boobs (I don't even know what she looks like, boobs or not) and other ludicrous stuff. It's coming from teens in floods now that school is out. I got tired of killfiling individuals (they crosspost like mad, too) and the cross-posted replies so for now, for my sanity, I've just silenced the domain in total. Jill > > On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address > > <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Jill- Hide quoted text - Well, that's weird that you replied to my post directly, because I post via Google. How'd that happen? Sherry >>> On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address >>> <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > How'd that happen? > Sherry You posted via Google but your email address is @aol.com, not gmail.com > >>> On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address > >>> <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > You posted via Google but your email address is @aol.com, not gmail.com- Hide quoted text - Okay, gotcha. :-) Sherry >> On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address >> <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Jill I have a few filters in place, if the subject contains certain words like Britney or $$$ they are automatically deleted so I never see them. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > >> On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address > >> <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Oh, now *that* would be handy. Eventually you'd weed out a great deal of it, and that would work on any post no matter what the address/origin. Sherry >>>> On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address >>>> <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> Cats leave pawprints on your >> heart.http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk- Hide quoted text >> - >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Sherry Unfortunately on these other ng's I'm referring to the subjects are allegedly on topic but the message content is not! Not to worry, I'll get over it in a few months when the kids go back to school :) Jill >>>> On May 18, 4:48 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address >>>> <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > Sherry Pity it only works with a proper newsreader and not google groups. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > I did say it's happening mostly in other ngs. And it's sad really; they are > posting stuff about Britney Spears' boobs (I don't even know what she looks [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jill I'm glad this thread (nearly) died, but I couldn't let it rest without this observation.... I was perusing on-line headlines this morning and did a double-take on what I thought said BOOBS HAMPER US TROOPS IN SEARCH FOR MISSING GIS and of course when I looked closer it was "bombs" instead (unfortunately) but such is the frame of mind you've got me in these days. :-D SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > I'm glad this thread (nearly) died, but I couldn't let it rest > without this observation.... [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > (unfortunately) but such is the frame of mind you've got me in these > days. :-D ROFL! Well, I suppose boobs would be a distraction assuming women in the Middle East actually bared more than their eyebrows ;) >> I'm glad this thread (nearly) died, but I couldn't let it rest >> without this observation.... [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > ROFL! Well, I suppose boobs would be a distraction assuming women in the > Middle East actually bared more than their eyebrows ;) I got caught again, this time in my Mac NG... They've been talking about old Macintosh computers and old software. Along came a post with a subject line that looked to me like "16 yo titles" and I thought it was about old software titles. Turns out the eejut who wrote it doesn't even know how to spell "titties." It figures. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh >>> I'm glad this thread (nearly) died, but I couldn't let it rest >>> without this observation.... [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Turns out the eejut who wrote it doesn't even know how to spell > "titties." It figures. Oh come on, you're looking for tits and a.s and you know it! <wink> >>>> I'm glad this thread (nearly) died, but I couldn't let it rest >>>> without this observation.... [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Oh come on, you're looking for tits and a.s and you know it! <wink> Are you trying to make me buy a new keyboard ;-) >> I was perusing on-line headlines this morning and did a double-take >> on what I thought said [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > ROFL! Well, I suppose boobs would be a distraction assuming women in the > Middle East actually bared more than their eyebrows ;) Spare us. Look at the Tehran women in http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html (turn the sound off unless you have a very high tolerance for singer-songwriter schlock). How many concealed faces do you see? For that matter, there were Muslim societies in the Middle East where (until late in the 19th century) it was normal for women in public to veil their heads and expose their breasts at the same time. Can't recall where, but as you might expect Western artists found them an irresistible subject. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 On May 26, 7:08 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> I was perusing on-line headlines this morning and did a double-take > >> on what I thought said [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== > Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 OMG. Those photos were all from Iran? Not being a traveled person at all, this was a real eye-opener for me. Extraordinarily beautiful images. I mean, I knew all the women weren't covered up to their eyebrows. I just didn't realize the landscape was so diverse. Sherry >> http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html > OMG. Those photos were all from Iran? Not being a traveled person at > all, this was a real eye-opener for me. Extraordinarily beautiful > images. > I mean, I knew all the women weren't covered up to their eyebrows. > I just didn't realize the landscape was so diverse. The landscape ranges from Switzerland to Mars. I should been there at the moment, maybe watching flocks of flamingos on Lake Urumiyeh southwest of Tabriz, but things went wrong and I'm going to a funeral in England instead. We had this fantasy of taking Splodge with us so he could rediscover his roots. Unlike many geographical names for cat breeds, Persians really do come from Persia. His fur looked totally impractical until I saw him in the snow at night once - those black and white markings completely disguised his shape so he looked like a pile of rocks. In the mountains of northern or western Iran he could have been a very effective hunter. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >> ROFL! Well, I suppose boobs would be a distraction assuming women in the >> Middle East actually bared more than their eyebrows ;) > Spare us. Look at the Tehran women in > http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html (turn the sound off > unless you have a very high tolerance for singer-songwriter schlock). Beautiful! Creepy text, though. But *hey*, wait a minute - I used to be a singer-songwriter! Be nice to us. :) Joyce |
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