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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 06 May 2006 10:48 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 06 May 2006 07:22 \__
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> __/ [ Larry Qualig ] on Friday 05 May 2006 13:31 \__
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>>>>>> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello fellow posters:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are the COLA stats exclusive to COLA? Could the folks in charge
>>>>>>> please add another newsgroup to their data collecting engine?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is another NG where the all-powerful (akin to Windows) and the
>>>>>>> underdog (such as Linux) are being pitted against each other, and
>>>>>>> stats would help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You may write to ramon at jonjay dot com.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Ramon
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google *automatically* posts stats for every newsgroup it hosts. I
>>>>>> believe this happens around midnight on Sunday.
>>>>>
>>>>> Larry, there isn't much point in replying to flamebait. See the previous
>>>>> couple of threads, both initiated by the same person in the past 24
>>>>> hours.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think you're wasting time trying to educate our trolls about, err,
>>>> trolls.
>>>
>>> I don't perceive Qualig as a troll. Other people deserve to have other
>>> opinions and I respect that.
>>>
>>
>> They do, of course, and they're welcome to post them in the appropriate
>> groups. Here, they're off-topic and/or trolls, of course.
>
> I guess that history's lessons say that I should take your word. As you can
> imagine, it's hard to embrace prejudice based on word of mouth while
> personal experience suggests otherwise. I feel entangled here, but I'll
> cope.
>
Umm, well, don't take my word without checking, please! My experience
has been that Larry is highly variable, Roy's been solid as a rock for
years (longer than I've been here, and I've been here a looonngg time
:-), and I truly appreciate your news postings here. Greycloud is a
maverick, but seems to be very knowledgable.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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