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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. |
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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. Yeah....I do get a lot of ads for junk, but it only takes me about 5 minutes a day to delete them, and like you say, sometimes there is something I can use, so I don't mind it so much. After all, someone has to pay for the internet service, just like someone has to pay for the TV programming material. The computer is cheap compared to the TV. Ads utilize about 1/3 of your watching time on the TV, but I don't spend anything like that much time reading/deleting ads on the computer...... |
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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
On Jun 18, 8:37*pm, Richard Casady
wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. I have been using my real name since I started going online in 1993. My email doesn't always show my real name in the header, but I do not use a fake name or hide it. When I had acess to a regular newsreader, I had a sig file that used my real name automatically. I don't bother to sign my posts these days, but will add my name if I tihnk it is helpful. While I do not use my phone to text, I will send messages via my ipod touch with a chat type program. Same mini keyboard, and I spell out all my words. I hate cell phone chat style. It seems pretty junior high to me. If you would like to look up old posts in the archives, my first email address was romulan (at) u.washington.edu as I was in college when I started. I had 6 months with a stupid email that was study something as I was studying online at that time. Then romulan (at) cyberspace.com. And then in 1993, I got my own domain name, so friesian (at) zoocrewphoto.com. My name is Meghan Noecker, and I am not afraid to use my real name. Fake names are for people who want to post things that would haunt them if they used their real name. I do get a lot of spam, but I've been using the same email address for 13 years, and I don't want to change it since it is a business email address for me as well. |
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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
CatNipped wrote:
I hate, hate HATE those companies that not only require a certain number of characters, but refuse passwords that are recent repeats of past passwords (like 20 passwords back, or won't allow consesequitive letters, or common words, or anything at ALL easily memorable - no wonder I can't ever get into the same place twice. What the heck do they care if I get "hacked", that's *NY* problem, and besides, the passwords I use and remember couldn't possibly be figured out by anyone but me and *maybe* Ben. Who the hell are they to tell me what's a proper password for me??!! /password rant "Bill Graham" wrote in message ... wrote: On Jun 18, 8:37 pm, Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. I have been using my real name since I started going online in 1993. My email doesn't always show my real name in the header, but I do not use a fake name or hide it. When I had acess to a regular newsreader, I had a sig file that used my real name automatically. I don't bother to sign my posts these days, but will add my name if I tihnk it is helpful. While I do not use my phone to text, I will send messages via my ipod touch with a chat type program. Same mini keyboard, and I spell out all my words. I hate cell phone chat style. It seems pretty junior high to me. If you would like to look up old posts in the archives, my first email address was romulan (at) u.washington.edu as I was in college when I started. I had 6 months with a stupid email that was study something as I was studying online at that time. Then romulan (at) cyberspace.com. And then in 1993, I got my own domain name, so friesian (at) zoocrewphoto.com. My name is Meghan Noecker, and I am not afraid to use my real name. Fake names are for people who want to post things that would haunt them if they used their real name. I do get a lot of spam, but I've been using the same email address for 13 years, and I don't want to change it since it is a business email address for me as well. When I started out using the internet, I picked an email address like weg (my initials). After several false starts, I ended up with weg9 because all the weg's 1 through 8 were all used up.....By me! But I couldn't tell them that so they could nullify the others and just give me one. These are probably still on the books and still can't be used by anyone. I still have this same problem today. When I try to buy something from the internet, they ask me if I am a returning customer. I don't know the answer to this question, so I say yes. Then they ask me for a password or user name and I get it wrong, so they say I am not a member. So then I try to sign up, and when I give them my name and pick a password, it says, "I'm sorry, but that name and/or password have already been used by someone else. - Of course they have, you idiots, (I say) and that somebody else is ME!! Half the problem is they have some minimum number of characters that can be used in their passwords, and how big that number is is a deep dark secret. They could say, please give us your 8 character password." But they don't. The leave it up to me to guess how many characters they require. I have a password system that generates the password based on how many characters it has. If they refuse to tell me how many characters they require, then I don't know what the password was. So there are businesses all over the internet that have me listed several times on their books, but there is only one of me, so the others never buy anything as far as they know, but it impossible for me to remove them from their books because I don't know the exact user name and password I need to do that. It is only a question of time before all the available storage space on all the on line sellers is used up by this kind of junk..... Yes. Consecutive letters rules kills some of my passwords. I need as many as three consecutive letters in a row for some of my paqssword generations. So, I cross companies that require two or less off my shopping list. Right now, I am trying to generate a password system that aqutomatically encodes a password of numbers, letters and special characters from a simpler system of just a 5 or 6 digit number, based on the location of the keys on a standard keyboard. If I could tell exactly when the password was first generated, then I could develop it from the date, but, unfortunately, I have no way of knowing this. The way I do it now is to generate an alpha-numeric password based on a single number, but that doesn't work for some companies who require a more involved password than that system is capable of. That's why I am looking at trying to generate one from a number based on the location of the letters and special characters on a standard keyboard. This is kind of interesting to me because I was a math major, and number puzzles like this are fun for me. |
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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. Really? "Stuff" like the $2,000,000 "reserved" for you in UN funds, and the various lotteries you've won without even entering? (Barnum was right!) |
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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:29:04 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. Really? "Stuff" like the $2,000,000 "reserved" for you in UN funds, and the various lotteries you've won without even entering? (Barnum was right!) Yes I get an average of one a day, and yes, often for good stuff at a fair price, and, occasionally, even, something I can use. Cassady |
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Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: Richard Casady wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name. Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet, unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the chance....:^) I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use. Really? "Stuff" like the $2,000,000 "reserved" for you in UN funds, and the various lotteries you've won without even entering? (Barnum was right!) You'll get that stuff whether you post with your real name or not. I have a program that sticks most of those posts into a junk mail file, but you still have to glance through them before you delete them, because sometimes it puts good posts in there by mistake. |
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Please don't Cross-post! (WAS: Must Discuss the Kitties' Welfair)
Here we go again with the cross-posting. I'm sorry but it's just a
pet-peeve of mine. Jill --deleting entire thread "Richard Casady" wrote in message ... On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote: "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... "nice guy" nice wrote in message ... What is 'Welfair'? Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other) doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by writing in some sort of intentional gibberish. What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real name. Casady |
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