Subject changes

Hi,
it seems this part of Usenet is bridged to some webpage. I don't know
how threads are handled there, but in my NNTP reader I hide old posts.
So the childish...statements some people change the subject field to are
really obfuscating what thread this is. Stop it.

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Tobias Weber

ob·fus·cate (bf-skt, b-fskt)
tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates
1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or
understand: "A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth"
Robert Conquest.
2. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.
--
Mad Mike


"Tobias Weber" wrote:

> Hi,
> it seems this part of Usenet is bridged to some webpage. I don't know
> how threads are handled there, but in my NNTP reader I hide old posts.
> So the childish...statements some people change the subject field to are
> really obfuscating what thread this is. Stop it.
>
> --
> Tobias Weber
>

"Tobias Weber" <> wrote in message
news:towb-...
> Hi,
> it seems this part of Usenet is bridged to some webpage. I don't know
> how threads are handled there, but in my NNTP reader I hide old posts.
> So the childish...statements some people change the subject field to are
> really obfuscating what thread this is. Stop it.


Unfortunately there's not a lot you (or we) can do. There are several web
forums, EggheadCafe being one, Vista 64x being another, that leach off the
MS News servers to make it appear that the forums are busier than they
really are. The owners of these forums make no attempt to tell their members
that this is what happens, so their members have no idea that their posts
appear on Usenet.
I'm just surprised that the users of these forums don't twig when they see
so many posts by "guests"....which are in fact the posts that are leached
off the MS news servers...

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"Eddie Hyde" wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:56:04 -0800, Mick Murphy
> <> wrote:
>
> >ob·fus·cate (bf-skt, b-fskt)
> >tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates
> >1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or
> >understand: "A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth"
> >Robert Conquest.
> >2. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.
> >--
> >Mad Mike
>
> Perfect word usage by "Tobias" here. You don't even see that after
> looking it up, do you!?
>
>
> >"Tobias Weber" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> it seems this part of Usenet is bridged to some webpage. I don't know
> >> how threads are handled there, but in my NNTP reader I hide old posts.
> >> So the childish...statements some people change the subject field to are
> >> really obfuscating what thread this is. Stop it.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tobias Weber
> >>
>

In article <towb->,
Tobias Weber <> wrote:
>Hi,
>So the childish...statements some people change the subject field to are
>really obfuscating what thread this is. Stop it.

But using the same subject all the time is boring!

In article <ghtlos$mjc$>,
(the wharf rat) wrote:

> But using the same subject all the time is boring!

But having the same thread title isn't? On the forum you're using the
subject fields is superfluous. In the NNTP system I use the subject is
the *only* field, so changing it to bogus strings is not helping.

Imagine visiting your forum and finding all the titels changed to
insults. Renders all overviews useless.

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Tobias Weber

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:09:33 +0200, Brontosaurus Burger AKA Vista! wrote:

> this started from 2 idiots..
>
> 1) Frank
> 2) Spanky

You forgot billie Da Lamb Chop.
>
>
> tell those 2 idiots to go to hell.. you can use voodoo on them too and stick
> needles in the doll ....
>
> just make sure the doll for frank has a big ass and the one for spanky has a
> very small head
>
>
> just to be more realistic I mean



ha ha ha hya
>
>
>
>
> "Tobias Weber" <> wrote in message
> news:towb-...
>> Hi,
>> it seems this part of Usenet is bridged to some webpage. I don't know
>> how threads are handled there, but in my NNTP reader I hide old posts.
>> So the childish...statements some people change the subject field to are
>> really obfuscating what thread this is. Stop it.
>>
>> --
>> Tobias Weber

Tobias Weber <> wrote:
>>
>> But using the same subject all the time is boring!
>
> But having the same thread title isn't? On the forum you're using the
> subject fields is superfluous. In the NNTP system I use the subject is
> the *only* field, so changing it to bogus strings is not helping.
>
> Imagine visiting your forum and finding all the titels changed to
> insults. Renders all overviews useless.
>

1. He was joking

2. Check his headers:

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