cc wrote:
>
> Jamie Hart wrote:
>> cc wrote:
>> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >> __/ [ cc ] on Sunday 10 December 2006 16:35 \__
>> >>
>> >>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >>>> __/ [ cc ] on Sunday 10 December 2006 14:11 \__
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
>> >>>>> 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What are you doing here anyway?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Robert Newson wrote:
>> >>>>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>> >>>>>> Instead of warning in the subject line about the length of the
>> >>>>>> post, could you not put a message about the news digest and then
>> >>>>>> reply to it with the
>> >>>>>> long message. Even though you warn in the subject, I have yet to
>> >>>>>> find a way for my newsreader to avoid reading the message if I
>> >>>>>> fail to manually spot it.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> By posting a warning and then the message as a reply to it, they
>> >>>>>> would be threaded on my newsreader and I could kill the thread
>> >>>>>> before wasting the time downloading the ~2000 lines.
>> >>>>> Or he could not post it at all. Since Roy has taken to lying in the
>> >>>>> subjects of his [News] posts now, I don't really think it's
>> >>>>> appropriate to post all the articles again, without any replies
>> >>>>> showing the ones which are dishonest.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Are they truly dishonest? Or is it simply the case that one among
>> >>>> many messages that I post accidently contains an error? Just because
>> >>>> you don't like the subject lines does not /necessarily/ make them
>> >>>> erroneous. It is a Linux advocacy newsgroup. It's not your daily
>> >>>> news, whose purpose is to present both sides no matter which one is
>> >>>> rightful and which side's argument isn't even worth attention. Even
>> >>>> newspapers, I might add, are inclined to please their funding
>> >>>> sources, so there's a hidden agenda and bias.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Best wishes,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Roy
>> >>> It's not that I don't like them. "PS3 has begun shipping with Linux
>> >>> Pre-installed" is just an out and out lie for instance. Many times
>> >>> the subject is just misleading, and well, since I don't know for sure
>> >>> I guess we'll have to let those slide. But I find it hard to believe
>> >>> that on the ones that are completely wrong that you don't know what
>> >>> you are doing. Why isn't the subject of the [News] posts the title of
>> >>> the article you're quoting anyway?
>> >> I will admit that I was wrong on the PS3 shipping thing, but it was
>> >> /NOT/ deliberate. I am sometimes in a hurry and I can't read
>> >> everything thoroughly. As I said before, it is easy to find flaws
>> >> somewhere in a big pool of messages. I am not trying to noisify in
>> >> order to use a nitpicking argument. I just think that these stories
>> >> ought to be filed and documented properly. PJ's research, for example,
>> >> greatly benefits from all these lobbying and bribery stories, which
>> >> she often puts among the News Picks.
>> >
>> >
>> > Alright sure, I can see that. But by the same token, not many of us are
>> > reading all your posts to begin with, and we still find them. Anyway,
>> > my main point was, that having both a digest and all your original News
>> > posts is repetative, and harmful. No one who discusses your news
>> > articles and points out any flaws(intentional or not) is going to come
>> > back and do the same thing here for the digest. And vice versa. Why not
>> > just have one or the other so at least anyone reading the news posts
>> > can see the criticism/corrections as well?
>> >
>> Because a digest of the news posts was requested by Hadron Quark.
>>
>> I really don't know why he thought a digest was a good idea, but Mark
>> kindly provided one for him.
>
> I believe he asked for only a news digest. I don't know if you know
> this, but the word "only" in that sentence makes it completely
> different from "I want a news digest"
Well, others prefer Roys posts.
Isn't choice great? Now both are provided
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