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I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
Avpx
(1) M0NFY
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
Avpx
(1) M0NFY
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so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
(Moving Pictures)
Thu 11692 Sep 08:10:01 BST 1993
08:10:01 up 5 days, 23:30, 1 user, load average: 1.94, 0.71, 0.65
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
(1) M0NFY--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
--
By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered
so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
(Moving Pictures)
Thu 11692 Sep 08:10:01 BST 1993
08:10:01 up 5 days, 23:30, 1 user, load average: 1.94, 0.71, 0.65
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
Avpx
(1) M0NFY
The Nomad <nomad@the.desert.invalid> wrote in news:z2buQ.72219$053.42055 >@usenetxs.com:
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
Avpx
(1) M0NFY
Sad news. We are becoming fewer.
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
Avpx
(1) M0NFY
IT comes as a shock to see how many are younger than this shedizen. He
said that he had getting hold of the wrong end of the stick since 1953.
The Nomad wrote:
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed
door.
ohttre
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect. :-(
Will be missed ...
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed to Rusty?
Avpx
(1) M0NFY
I never knew he was a radiosheddi.
The Nomad wrote:
(1) M0NFY
I never knew he was a radiosheddi.
The Nomad wrote:
I found out last night that one of our number has closed their shed door.
ohttre
Our Nev (1), late of this parish, closed their shed door on the 12th
August, much to his relief I suspect.-a :-(
Will be missed ...
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed to Rusty?
On 04/09/2025 12:36, Andy Burns wrote:
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed
to Rusty?
He was, me being one of the others
I have heard nothing from Rusty for some time now.-a Nearly 2yrs in fact.
I'll try him.
On 04/09/2025 20:35, James Heaton wrote:
On 04/09/2025 12:36, Andy Burns wrote:
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed
to Rusty?
He was, me being one of the others
I have heard nothing from Rusty for some time now.-a Nearly 2yrs in fact.
I'll try him.
I got an email response from him a while ago, when I think a few of us emailed him. I think he was having a bit of trouble with whatever his newsreader was and it was implicit that he'd be back with us soon.
Rusty's shed door is still open
James Heaton wrote:
Rusty's shed door is still open
H!TFD
On 05/09/2025 02:04, Mike Fleming wrote:
On 04/09/2025 20:35, James Heaton wrote:
On 04/09/2025 12:36, Andy Burns wrote:
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed
to Rusty?
He was, me being one of the others
I have heard nothing from Rusty for some time now.-a Nearly 2yrs in fact. >>>
I'll try him.
I got an email response from him a while ago, when I think a few of us
emailed him. I think he was having a bit of trouble with whatever his
newsreader was and it was implicit that he'd be back with us soon.
Rusty's shed door is still open, albeit with health and IT problems.
He does comment that 'Any (pref) Linux savvy Shedi very welcome to
fiddle with my laptop (oo-er!) and help restore communications.'
Better than we feared!
James
I am a Linux geek of some 30 years now, I am happy to help, my email is almost
visible, prepend with mail@ drop the .invalid and swap the existing @ for a .
Does that make sense, I don't want a deluge of spam by posting it in plain text ;-)
I am a Linux geek of some 30 years now, I am happy to help, my email is almost
visible, prepend with mail@ drop the .invalid and swap the existing @ for a .
Does that make sense, I don't want a deluge of spam by posting it in plain text ;-)
I must lead a charmed life in the way of spam.
For at least 5 years my NG account incuded my email address out there in >plain text, and in that time I know of only one email which I received
as a result of doing so - and it wasnt even spam
That is a good point. As I wrote elsewhere, I think I have only ever
received spam once since I started putting my address in clear on
usenet posts but on the other hand, I have also received wanted mail
from people who would never have known how to contact me otherwise.
I am a Linux geek of some 30 years now, I am happy to help, my email is almost
visible, prepend with mail@ drop the .invalid and swap the existing @ for a .
Does that make sense, I don't want a deluge of spam by posting it in plain text ;-)
I must lead a charmed life in the way of spam.
For at least 5 years my NG account incuded my email address out there in plain text, and in that time I know of only one email which I received
as a result of doing so - and it wasnt even spam
In message <562rbkpk2v8k4qs5gsfup88d716hmdht3e@4ax.com>, Nick Odell <nick@themusicworkshop.plus.com> writes
That is a good point. As I wrote elsewhere, I think I have only ever >received spam once since I started putting my address in clear on
usenet posts but on the other hand, I have also received wanted mail
from people who would never have known how to contact me otherwise.
Howsomedever, my experience is somewhat different.
I use Turnpike, and that has an endearing habit of creating message ids
using your domain name. That message id has the same form as an email address <character string>@<domain>, and for many years I got spam
emails sent to those message ids. Two things stopped that, firstly I
changed the domain setting in Turnpike so that it no longer uses a valid domain, and secondly server level filtering on those message ids. A
bit of research suggested that almost all of the message ids that we
being harvested were from usenet, rather than from emails.
As you'll see from my sig block, the from address is also spam trapped,
and has been since I started to use it, so I can't tell whether or not
that attracts spam..
In message <562rbkpk2v8k4qs5gsfup88d716hmdht3e@4ax.com>, Nick Odell
<nick@themusicworkshop.plus.com> writes
That is a good point. As I wrote elsewhere, I think I have only ever >>received spam once since I started putting my address in clear on
usenet posts but on the other hand, I have also received wanted mail
from people who would never have known how to contact me otherwise.
Howsomedever, my experience is somewhat different.
I use Turnpike, and that has an endearing habit of creating message ids using your domain name. That message id has the same form as an email address <character string>@<domain>, and for many years I got spam
emails sent to those message ids. Two things stopped that, firstly I changed the domain setting in Turnpike so that it no longer uses a valid domain, and secondly server level filtering on those message ids. A
bit of research suggested that almost all of the message ids that we
being harvested were from usenet, rather than from emails.
As you'll see from my sig block, the from address is also spam trapped,
and has been since I started to use it, so I can't tell whether or not
that attracts spam..
Adrian
I must lead a charmed life in the way of spam.
For at least 5 years my NG account incuded my email address out there in plain text, and in that time I know of only one email which I received
as a result of doing so - and it wasnt even spam
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
On 07/09/2025 11:36, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
I must lead a charmed life in the way of spam.
For at least 5 years my NG account incuded my email address out there in
plain text, and in that time I know of only one email which I received
as a result of doing so - and it wasnt even spam
When I used Agent, I had my email address as {mike}@etc which {R} in demon.local had suggested as a way of avoiding email harvesters, as they
did very rough and ready filtering on email addresses - it was a valid
email address but likely to be discarded by harvesters. That seemed to
work (like my lion repellent powder). Since changing to Thunderbox a
while ago, I've had my email address unadorned and haven't had any spam.
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays, if
they've even heard of them.
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
On 2025-09-07, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
I still get at least one a week asking if I would like to contract them to assist with SEO on my website. If I wanted more traffic I'd publish the address,
as it is they have guessed it from an email.
On 07/09/2025 16:47, Simon wrote:
On 2025-09-07, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
I still get at least one a week asking if I would like to contract them to >> assist with SEO on my website. If I wanted more traffic I'd publish the address,
as it is they have guessed it from an email.
I get that, but to an email address that's on the website as I don't use
the email addresses corresponding with the website for email or news
IYSWIM. They're set to collect email only, if anyone wants to contact
any of the bands via email.
On 2025-09-06, James Heaton wrote:
On 05/09/2025 02:04, Mike Fleming wrote:
On 04/09/2025 20:35, James Heaton wrote:
On 04/09/2025 12:36, Andy Burns wrote:
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed >>>>> to Rusty?
He was, me being one of the others
I have heard nothing from Rusty for some time now.-a Nearly 2yrs in fact. >>>>
I'll try him.
I got an email response from him a while ago, when I think a few of us
emailed him. I think he was having a bit of trouble with whatever his
newsreader was and it was implicit that he'd be back with us soon.
Rusty's shed door is still open, albeit with health and IT problems.
He does comment that 'Any (pref) Linux savvy Shedi very welcome to
fiddle with my laptop (oo-er!) and help restore communications.'
Better than we feared!
James
I am a Linux geek of some 30 years now, I am happy to help, my email is almost
visible, prepend with mail@ drop the .invalid and swap the existing @ for a .
Does that make sense, I don't want a deluge of spam by posting it in plain text ;-)
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
On 07/09/2025 11:24, Simon wrote:
On 2025-09-06, James Heaton wrote:
On 05/09/2025 02:04, Mike Fleming wrote:
On 04/09/2025 20:35, James Heaton wrote:
On 04/09/2025 12:36, Andy Burns wrote:
I have a feeling Nev was one of the few comms channels from the shed >>>>>> to Rusty?
He was, me being one of the others
I have heard nothing from Rusty for some time now.-a Nearly 2yrs in fact. >>>>>
I'll try him.
I got an email response from him a while ago, when I think a few of us >>>> emailed him. I think he was having a bit of trouble with whatever his
newsreader was and it was implicit that he'd be back with us soon.
Rusty's shed door is still open, albeit with health and IT problems.
He does comment that 'Any (pref) Linux savvy Shedi very welcome to
fiddle with my laptop (oo-er!) and help restore communications.'
Better than we feared!
James
I am a Linux geek of some 30 years now, I am happy to help, my email is almost
visible, prepend with mail@ drop the .invalid and swap the existing @ for a .
Does that make sense, I don't want a deluge of spam by posting it in plain text ;-)
Cheers, will pass that on. So if I'm reading it rightly, it's mail at yourname and initial dot thing we left ...
James
In article <fd8rbktft937fka260usssp2u4em4hmndb@4ax.com>, hubops@ccanoemail.com on Sun, 7 Sep 2025 at 11:20:13 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
It probably has not changed, dodgy princes trying to get their money
out, armed forces claiming that they need money to return home on leave, dodgy damsels in distress. Yawn and so on
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
In article <fd8rbktft937fka260usssp2u4em4hmndb@4ax.com>, hubops@ccanoemail.com on Sun, 7 Sep 2025 at 11:20:13 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
It probably has not changed, dodgy princes trying to get their money
out, armed forces claiming that they need money to return home on leave, dodgy damsels in distress. Yawn and so on
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
Nicholas D. Richards said:
In article <fd8rbktft937fka260usssp2u4em4hmndb@4ax.com>,
hubops@ccanoemail.com on Sun, 7 Sep 2025 at 11:20:13 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
It probably has not changed, dodgy princes trying to get their money
out, armed forces claiming that they need money to return home on leave,
dodgy damsels in distress. Yawn and so on
Eeeh, we never knew 'ow 'appy we wos. I haven't seen any of them for
ages.
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
In article <109mb3f$7hd1$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Mon, 8 Sep 2025 at 10:27:59 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as compulsory.
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
In article <109mb3f$7hd1$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
<richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Mon, 8 Sep 2025 at 10:27:59 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as compulsory.
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
Nicholas D. Richards said:
Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as
compulsory.
Nothing bad has happened to me for not doing any of them. Um, yet.
In gurbel, they might be a good idea; if they weren't astroturfable, and
if it didn't feel like pestering.
hubops@ccanoemail.com said:
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
HTH
On 08/09/2025 15:43, Richard Robinson wrote:
Nicholas D. Richards said:"What could we do to make your experience better?" "Don't ask for feedback."
Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as
compulsory.
Nothing bad has happened to me for not doing any of them. Um, yet.
In gurbel, they might be a good idea; if they weren't astroturfable, and
if it didn't feel like pestering.
I once went in to a corner shop in Chelmsford and bought a newspaper and
a mars bar - not heard a word from them since :-(
On 07/09/2025 17:20, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
I get funeral arrangements and weight loss remedies. I think they may have
got into my photos.
On 08/09/2025 15:43, Richard Robinson wrote:
Nicholas D. Richards said:"What could we do to make your experience better?" "Don't ask for feedback."
Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as
compulsory.
Nothing bad has happened to me for not doing any of them. Um, yet.
In gurbel, they might be a good idea; if they weren't astroturfable, and
if it didn't feel like pestering.
On 08/09/2025 15:43, Richard Robinson wrote:
Nicholas D. Richards said:"What could we do to make your experience better?" "Don't ask for
Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as
compulsory.
Nothing bad has happened to me for not doing any of them. Um, yet.
In gurbel, they might be a good idea; if they weren't astroturfable, and
if it didn't feel like pestering.
feedback."
In article <109mb3f$7hd1$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Mon, 8 Sep 2025 at 10:27:59 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as compulsory.
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in >news:BGuvpjAiMuvoFAzc@salmiron.com:
In article <109mb3f$7hd1$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
<richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Mon, 8 Sep 2025 at 10:27:59 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...Feedback 'requests' do not feel like requests, they make them feel as
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment", >>>whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying >>>as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
compulsory.
Always sounds rather needy to me. "Was it good? was it good" sort of fing.
hubops@ccanoemail.com said:
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
On 08/09/2025 11:27, Richard Robinson wrote:
hubops@ccanoemail.com said:
I suspect that spammers won't bother with newsgroups nowadays,
if they've even heard of them.
One wonders what spam we'd be getting :
.. hearing aids, adult diapers, compression socks,
mobility aids, etc :-(
John T.
Running a website, I need to give out a jbexvat address ...
Fake watches for only $250, mostly. And "perfect neck alignment",
whatever that is.
Deleting them doesn't take very many keystrokes, & it's not as annoying
as the way that everyone I go near considers it vital to have my
feedback on the experience.
Long ago I adopted the practice of having a gif of my email address on
parts of my website so that people really had to want to contact me to follow through with that.
Elsewhere, on other sites I manage, I use the ampersand, hash, 64
(@) characters to replace the '@' symbol in the html (it displays
the same) and this also seems to avoid the spam harvesters whilst
allowing functionality.
Chris
Long ago I adopted the practice of having a gif of my email address on
parts of my website so that people really had to want to contact me to follow through with that.
Elsewhere, on other sites I manage, I use the ampersand, hash, 64
(@) characters to replace the '@' symbol in the html (it displays
the same) and this also seems to avoid the spam harvesters whilst
allowing functionality.
On 10/09/2025 10:49, chrisnd@privacy.net wrote:
Long ago I adopted the practice of having a gif of my email address on
parts of my website so that people really had to want to contact me to
follow through with that.
Elsewhere, on other sites I manage, I use the ampersand, hash, 64
(@) characters to replace the '@' symbol in the html (it displays
the same) and this also seems to avoid the spam harvesters whilst
allowing functionality.
My email address is obfuscated on my websites. For example, if you look
at https://dirtyroses.co.uk/ you can see my email address at the bottom
of the page, but if you look at the page source, you'll see it's "info@dirtyroses.co.uk"
Handy email address obfuscator: https://www.albionresearch.com/tools/obfuscator
On 10/09/2025 10:49, chrisnd@privacy.net wrote:
Long ago I adopted the practice of having a gif of my email address on
parts of my website so that people really had to want to contact me to
follow through with that.
Elsewhere, on other sites I manage, I use the ampersand, hash, 64
(@) characters to replace the '@' symbol in the html (it displays
the same) and this also seems to avoid the spam harvesters whilst
allowing functionality.
My email address is obfuscated on my websites. For example, if you look
at https://dirtyroses.co.uk/ you can see my email address at the bottom
of the page, but if you look at the page source, you'll see it's "info@dirtyroses.co.uk"