In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jay Garcia wrote: >> "michael lefevre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> ae7oip$3rf2p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:ae7oip$3rf2p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... [snip] >>> >>> aside from that, "this server" is also meaningless - these groups are >>> distributed across thousands of servers worldwide. >> >> Yes, and Jay Garcia has been told that many times. This newsgroup has >> nothing to do with news.mozills.org. If news.mozilla.org went down for good >> tomorrow, this newsgroup would continue just as it is today. >> > Ok, I'll answer all of your replies with one. > > 1. I did post on news.mozilla.org
i don't think anyone disputed that. > 2. Everything posted on this server is fed to usenet again, no disagreement there (without entering into arguments about what "usenet" is. > 3. If news.mozilla.org were to shut down so would the feed. However, a > "usenet" group would probably survive being fed from elsewhere. You need > a lesson in how usenet works. There is no ONE server. Your ISP carries > these groups because they are fed from news.mozilla.org that is exactly the point. if news.mozilla.org were to disappear, the group would remain. > 4. "This Server" is not meaningless. If it didn't exist or it dies .. > See #3 above. [snip] one would generally take "this server" to be the server one is close to, I'm reading from this server here, you're posting from that one. maybe i went too far with "meaningless" - ambiguous would have been better. saying "this server" is about as meaningful as saying "the post before this one"... anyway, arguments aside, if your goal is to keep these groups for the useful discussion they are intended for (which would be a good thing), posting arrogant messages ordering people not to post is not the way to do it - what you have achieved is a large, off-topic, cross-posted thread. if you're a programmer, kindly go and write some code. if you're not a programmer, then by your own admission you shouldn't be posting here anyway :P [f'ups set, FWIW] -- michael
