On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:39:05 +0100, Mini-FAQ cron wrote
(in message <bdl1tp$jfu$1[at]pinkstuff.publication.org.uk>):

> Welcome to the uk.comp.sys.mac newsgroup!
>
> Mostly the talk in here is about Apple Macintosh computers and their
> use. However, in addition to being Mac-enthusiasts, we are also a bunch
> of people with many other interests, which sometimes spill into the
> newsgroup. And sometime we feel like being silly, and having daft
> conversations. It's all here. We don't do rude except by accident, we
> don't slag people off (even Wintel users get a fairly easy time here,
> mostly), and we don't do aggression, any of the -isms, or stupidity.
> Usually, conversations about subjects that are not Macintosh related
> will have a subject line that starts OT: - but not always!
>
> When you are ready, join in! The standard advice is to lurk for a
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> people here will be extra helpful.
>
> Usually you will get a very helpful answer. There are people here who
> favour System 7, System 8, System 9, and the newer OS X 10. There are
> people here who, between them, use nearly every program ever released
> for our machines.
>

Oooo-er!

I'm sitting here feeling that I have made a small contribution to the
commonwealth of uk.comp.sys.mac readers, writers, and lurkers.

Thanks for the responses to my original suggestion on the subject of a
welcome message.

--
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)

in article 0001HW.BB2AD44700757BFEF0080600[at]news.demon.co.uk, Hugh Browton at
useneth[at]**.not.uk wrote on 4/7/03 6:50 am:

[snip welcome message]

> Oooo-er!
>
> I'm sitting here feeling that I have made a small contribution to the
> commonwealth of uk.comp.sys.mac readers, writers, and lurkers.
>
> Thanks for the responses to my original suggestion on the subject of a
> welcome message.

Hugh, you are marked for posterity! And a couple of my suggestions got in
there too. :-)

In article <BB2ADC6A.14719%bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk>,
Bella Jones <bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> in article 0001HW.BB2AD44700757BFEF0080600[at]news.demon.co.uk, Hugh Browton at
> useneth[at]**.not.uk wrote on 4/7/03 6:50 am:
>
> [snip welcome message]
>
> > Oooo-er!
> >
> > I'm sitting here feeling that I have made a small contribution to the
> > commonwealth of uk.comp.sys.mac readers, writers, and lurkers.
> >
> > Thanks for the responses to my original suggestion on the subject of a
> > welcome message.
>
> Hugh, you are marked for posterity! And a couple of my suggestions got in
> there too. :-)
>

We are all in this . . . together.

--
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0x5F9559B1 | If enough of your customers die,
www.rg-d.co.uk/ucsm/ | you know there is something wrong.
www.rg-d.com/BioLOG/ | - Adrian Tuddenham on ucsm

In article <rpg14-0AD002.08391804072003[at]pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
"Richard P. Grant" <rpg14[at]yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> > Hugh, you are marked for posterity! And a couple of my suggestions got in
> > there too. :-)
> >
>
> We are all in this . . . together.

Why do I find that thought scary?

Peter

--
Peter Ashby
School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland
To assume that I speak for the University of Dundee is to be deluded.
Reverse the Spam and remove to email me.

in article p.r.ashby-D04870.10105104072003[at]dux.dundee.ac.uk, Peter Ashby at
p.r.ashby[at]MAPS.dundee.ac.uk wrote on 4/7/03 10:10 am:

>>> Hugh, you are marked for posterity! And a couple of my suggestions got in
>>> there too. :-)

>> We are all in this . . . together.

> Why do I find that thought scary?

Hmm, yes, ICWUM.

I'm trying to imagine us[1] all, in a freezing squat somewhere, fighting
over a can of tomatoes - or a single phone line. Would we[1] retain a sense
of community, or would isms and stupidity raise their inevitable heads?


[1] Forgive my presumption.

In article <BB2B0DA6.1473D%bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk>,
Bella Jones <bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> in article p.r.ashby-D04870.10105104072003[at]dux.dundee.ac.uk, Peter Ashby at
> p.r.ashby[at]MAPS.dundee.ac.uk wrote on 4/7/03 10:10 am:
>
> >>> Hugh, you are marked for posterity! And a couple of my suggestions got in
> >>> there too. :-)
>
> >> We are all in this . . . together.
>
> > Why do I find that thought scary?
>
> Hmm, yes, ICWUM.
>
> I'm trying to imagine us[1] all, in a freezing squat somewhere, fighting
> over a can of tomatoes - or a single phone line. Would we[1] retain a sense
> of community, or would isms and stupidity raise their inevitable heads?

I suppose that is one of the wonders of usenet. In, let me think, 10
years of inhabiting it I have only had two episodes of unpleasantness of
the net caused by unpleasantness on it.

As someone in another froup puts it on his .sig:

It's only usenet, noone dies.

Peter

--
Peter Ashby
School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland
To assume that I speak for the University of Dundee is to be deluded.
Reverse the Spam and remove to email me.

D.M. Procida wrote:
> Peter Ashby <p.r.ashby[at]MAPS.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>As someone in another froup puts it on his .sig:
>>
>>It's only usenet, noone dies.
>
>
> Plainly rubbish, as <http://www.google.com/search?q=Peter+Noone> will
> prove.
>

I needed a Condor moment before the penny finally arrived at ground
level there.........




--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 8:39:18 +0100, Richard P. Grant wrote
(in message <rpg14-0AD002.08391804072003[at]pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>):

> In article <BB2ADC6A.14719%bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk>,
> Bella Jones <bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> in article 0001HW.BB2AD44700757BFEF0080600[at]news.demon.co.uk, Hugh Browton
>> at
>> useneth[at]**.not.uk wrote on 4/7/03 6:50 am:
>>
>> [snip welcome message]
>>
>>> Oooo-er!
>>>
>>> I'm sitting here feeling that I have made a small contribution to the
>>> commonwealth of uk.comp.sys.mac readers, writers, and lurkers.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the responses to my original suggestion on the subject of a
>>> welcome message.
>>
>> Hugh, you are marked for posterity! And a couple of my suggestions got in
>> there too. :-)
>>
>
> We are all in this . . . together.
>

Oh mi gawd!



Anyway, I didn't mean to imply that I'd written the whole thing,
single-handed, carving words into blocks of oolitic limestone with a 4B
pencil. just that I was happy that I'd had a part to play.

All together now: "Row, row, row the boat...."



--
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)