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On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:06:28 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] |
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Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design: |
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> By the way, your reply started a new thread, either yours or the |
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> previous message broke something. |
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That's because I was replying to Mick's message from the NNTP server |
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news.eternal-september.org. It is downstream from bofh.it. |
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This reply should not break threading, as I am replying to your message |
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received directly from the mailing list. [I have switched my |
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subscription from "nomail" to "mail".] |
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> I'm not quite so confused now. This didn't help any: |
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> Bastard Operator From Hell (/BOFH/) |
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Well, if you read the BOFH stories, you will find that the central |
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character has a penchant for treating users with contempt. |
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> This is another way of reading that but there may be a few ladies on |
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> here. ;-) I now realize that you are talking about a news server |
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> thingy. lol Cleared up a little mud at least. lol |
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Well, I'm glad we have sorted out the mystery. I don't know if we can |
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get the sysadmin to fix the rogue newsserver. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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