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Maria Sophia wrote on 2/14/2026 2:23 PM:

I'm trying to improve newsgroup quality

LOL, Mary.


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Frank Slootweg wrote:

As mentioned in other responses, such as Carlos' and mine, it has
nothing to do with fandom.

Just to be fair to Carlos, I don't see why Franklin constantly pulls in the "well he said it too!" in defense of Franklin's own actions, but more to
the point of the OP on Paul, I respect Paul, not only for his acumen and
for his purposefully helpful attitude (which is the antithesis of
Franklin's hate-filled demeanor), but also because Paul has social skills
which I completely lack when it comes to trying to stop Franklin's trolls.

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Subject: Note directly to the unprepossessingly disgusting Slootweg troll.
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:53:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Paul, for reasons that I admire, doesn't respond to Franklin's trolls.
He let's Franklin Slootweg's trolls fall by the wayside better than I can.

Hence, I admire Paul for having the same deeply caring personality that I
have but with a more graceful Knight's armor against these common trolls.

I invest hours into each of my PSAs and tutorials becvause I care about
people, and I respect them, where Franklin is the antithesis in all ways.

Franklin never shows any understanding of the topic.
Nor does Franklin ever add any on-topic value to any technical topic.

All Franklin Slootweg can do... is troll.
Franklin feels a desperation to troll that I have no skills to combat.

I admire that Paul shrugs off Franklin Slootweg's trolls better'n I can.

As for the privacy concept inherent in random dictionary lookups, the OP
might consider how effective it would be if each line was unique to Usenet?

BTW, if the OP is the Sn!pe common troll, please identify yourself as such.
As that will earn the OP on the killfile along with Snit & Alan Baker.
--
Of the million things to know about privacy, most people know about three.
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Maria Sophia wrote on 2/14/2026 4:41 PM:

Just to be fair to Carlos, I don't see why Franklin constantly pulls in the "well he said it too!" in defense of Franklin's own actions, but more to
the point of the OP on Paul, I respect Paul, not only for his acumen and
for his purposefully helpful attitude (which is the antithesis of
Franklin's hate-filled demeanor), but also because Paul has social skills which I completely lack when it comes to trying to stop Franklin's trolls.

Mary, Why not ask paul to share a room with you tonight?

You could open a bottle of champagne and talk about all those adult
things to add value to your discussions, and to work on keeping absolute secrecy. You know, TECHNICAL things of great importance to you and paul.

I have the utmost respect for you and paul as a couple. Godspeed Mary
and Paul!

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On 2026-02-14 23:41, Maria Sophia wrote:

Frank Slootweg wrote:

-a As mentioned in other responses, such as Carlos' and mine, it has
nothing to do with fandom.

Just to be fair to Carlos, I don't see why Franklin constantly pulls in the

Notice that you are replying in the wrong thread with content from
another thread, and making a mess of it. Not the first time you do, attributing things to the wrong people. This is entirely your fault for refusing to use a proper Usenet client and using instead for damn scripts.

Hint: Frank said nothing in this thread. Nor me.

No excuses accepted. It is your mess.
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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
ESEfc-Efc+, EUEfc-Efc|;
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Daniel70,

and that still doesn't support why Maria keeps changing her Nym

Arlen told us a while ago that he does that because he's than harder to
track (by data/PI gatherers).

A similar reasoning (not wanting to be spammed) that we are using for our dummy email adresses.

in an attempt to thwart peoples attempts to Kill-File her.

Your "in an attempt to thwart" is *you* tacking an intent to a downside of what he does (to protect himself).

And yes, I do agree that it makes it harder for us to keep him in our kill-files.

But think of this : My newsgroup server, Eternal September, has disabled the use of attachments / binaries in most of its newsgroups. Should I now
assume that its ES'es intent to make the lives harder of people who just
want to include a picture (screenshot) instead of penning down a thousand words ? Or should I take it as it is, an unwanted, but unavoidable side-effect ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 15/02/2026 9:38 pm, R.Wieser wrote:

Daniel70,

and that still doesn't support why Maria keeps changing her Nym

Arlen told us a while ago that he does that because he's than harder to
track (by data/PI gatherers).

A similar reasoning (not wanting to be spammed) that we are using for our dummy email adresses.

in an attempt to thwart peoples attempts to Kill-File her.

Your "in an attempt to thwart" is *you* tacking an intent to a downside of what he does (to protect himself).

And yes, I do agree that it makes it harder for us to keep him in our kill-files.

But think of this : My newsgroup server, Eternal September,

As is mine.

has disabled the
use of attachments / binaries in most of its newsgroups. Should I now
assume that its ES'es intent to make the lives harder of people who just
want to include a picture (screenshot) instead of penning down a thousand words ? Or should I take it as it is, an unwanted, but unavoidable side-effect ?

If someone wanted, on the odd occasion, to post a picture to help
explain the situation that they are in, that can be done by posting a
picture to various websites and then they would just post a link to
their picture here. No problem.

But might you be suggesting that Maria is trying to include a picture
with each and every post she makes to E-S??
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Daniel70
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Daniel70,

But might you be suggesting that Maria is trying to include a structure
with each and every post she makes to E-S??

You missed the point.

Remove, from my post, everything from "But think of this : My newsgroup server, Eternal September," upto my signature and read it again.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On Sat, 2/14/2026 6:02 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

Maria Sophia wrote on 2/14/2026 4:41 PM:

Just to be fair to Carlos, I don't see why Franklin constantly pulls in the >> "well he said it too!" in defense of Franklin's own actions, but more to
the point of the OP on Paul, I respect Paul, not only for his acumen and
for his purposefully helpful attitude (which is the antithesis of
Franklin's hate-filled demeanor), but also because Paul has social skills
which I completely lack when it comes to trying to stop Franklin's trolls.

Mary, Why not ask paul to share a room with you tonight?

You could open a bottle of champagne and talk about all those adult things to add value to your discussions, and to work on keeping absolute secrecy.a You know, TECHNICAL things of great importance to you and paul.

I have the utmost respect for you and paul as a couple. Godspeed Mary and Paul!

I think I'm going to have to connect my UserAgent string to a random number generator :-)

Paul
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On 15/02/2026 10:42 pm, R.Wieser wrote:

Daniel70,

But might you be suggesting that Maria is trying to include a structure
with each and every post she makes to E-S??

You missed the point.

Remove, from my post, everything from "But think of this : My newsgroup server, Eternal September," upto my signature and read it again.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Sure .... and did you read my "If someone wanted, on the odd occasion,
to post a picture to help explain the situation that they are in, that
can be done by posting a picture to various websites and then they would
just post a link to their picture here. No problem."??

Alternatively, as the services provided by the E-S server are FREE, one
might suggest "Ray's (FREE) Server, Ray's Rules!!"
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Daniel70
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Daniel70,

Sure .... and did you read my "If someone wanted, on the odd occasion,

Yes, I did. That is why I suggest that you remove the *example* (which, by the way, you also missed the point of) and re-read my post.

To be honest, it looks like you are trying to, by playing stupid, evade the point I tried to make. I did not expect that from you. :-(

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 16/02/2026 10:35 pm, R.Wieser wrote:

Daniel70,

Sure .... and did you read my "If someone wanted, on the odd occasion,

Yes, I did. That is why I suggest that you remove the *example* (which, by the way, you also missed the point of) and re-read my post.

To be honest, it looks like you are trying to, by playing stupid, evade the point I tried to make. I did not expect that from you. :-(

Thank you. I WAS only trying to be of assistance .... just as you were!
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Daniel70
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