IMBJR wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:15:17 -0400, "Greg M. Johnson"
> <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:

> >usenet posting encouraging people to tear down this group.  Pardon me not liking
that

> >attitude.
>
> I retracted that statement as being very foolish.

I stand corrected. I had been under the impression, however, that the "retraction" was
the
forgery you were complaining about.

Splash away!

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Greg M. Johnson wrote in message <39ABC64B.736A19F4@my-dejanews.com>...
>IMBJR wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:15:17 -0400, "Greg M. Johnson"
>> <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
>
>> >usenet posting encouraging people to tear down this group.  Pardon me
not liking that
>
>> >attitude.
>>
>> I retracted that statement as being very foolish.
>
>I stand corrected. I had been under the impression, however, that the
"retraction" was the
>forgery you were complaining about.

I retracted the please-flood-POV-newserver part of my alt.binaries.slack
posting on alt.binaries.slack (the non-"Confession" post), the forgery was a
different matter all together. I think I now know who did it and have
contacted them twice about it in order to get an apology. If they don't then
I will post my evidence to pov.off-topic for that person's peers to judge
them.

>
>Splash away!
>

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Cannonball!!!!

Anyone get soaked?

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MikeH wrote in message <39AC2AE7.E0F2A9E7@aol.com>...
>Cannonball!!!!
>
>Anyone get soaked?

Some did, and some did not. Did you?

>

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IMBJR wrote in message <39a8dbd2@news.povray.org>...

>I think it is quite possible that spammers are in fact harvesting e-mail
>addresses from these groups. The POV server will only see someone accessing
>the headers like the rest of us do. I think it is naive of you to believe
>you are safe from spam; if the spammers just got one sniff of this server
>they would have a field day.


I can assure you they aren't.  I've been posting here for over a year, and I
haven't gotten a single spam e-mail at the address I use.

Mark

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IMBJR wrote in message <39a7e32d@news.povray.org>...
>This news server (news.povray.org) seems to have pretty deep pockets. I am
>currently downloading the entire contents of povray.binaries.images and I
>noted that the earliest post is from about July 1998. So even if I did
>release my material in staged intervals it would all still be available for
>download at some point, leaving the individual browser the option of
>downloading in staged intervals. Remember, no one is forcing you to
download
>these images.


This may be a little after the fact, but about three months ago, the server
ran out of space, forcing a number of posts from the povray.binaries.*
groups to be expired.

Mark

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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:39:54 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

>
>IMBJR wrote in message <39a7e32d@news.povray.org>...
>>This news server (news.povray.org) seems to have pretty deep pockets. I am
>>currently downloading the entire contents of povray.binaries.images and I
>>noted that the earliest post is from about July 1998. So even if I did
>>release my material in staged intervals it would all still be available for
>>download at some point, leaving the individual browser the option of
>>downloading in staged intervals. Remember, no one is forcing you to
>download
>>these images.
>
>
>This may be a little after the fact, but about three months ago, the server
>ran out of space, forcing a number of posts from the povray.binaries.*
>groups to be expired.

Really? Strange, I could have sworn I have downloaded stuff from
fairly well back - in fact, just to test I am currently downloading
something in this group that was appearently posted 4/99 (Squeezer by
Andrew Cocker) ...

...yup, downloaded.

>
>Mark
>

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"IMBJR" <imb### [at] imbjrcom> wrote in message
news:ei61uscoq5718n7jqj2538oqdql16lp0dm@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:39:54 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
> <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
>
> >
> >IMBJR wrote in message <39a7e32d@news.povray.org>...
> >>This news server (news.povray.org) seems to have pretty deep pockets. I
am
> >>currently downloading the entire contents of povray.binaries.images and
I
> >>noted that the earliest post is from about July 1998. So even if I did
> >>release my material in staged intervals it would all still be available
for
> >>download at some point, leaving the individual browser the option of
> >>downloading in staged intervals. Remember, no one is forcing you to
> >download
> >>these images.
> >
> >
> >This may be a little after the fact, but about three months ago, the
server
> >ran out of space, forcing a number of posts from the povray.binaries.*
> >groups to be expired.
>
> Really? Strange, I could have sworn I have downloaded stuff from
> fairly well back - in fact, just to test I am currently downloading
> something in this group that was appearently posted 4/99 (Squeezer by
> Andrew Cocker) ...
>
> ...yup, downloaded.

So? Note that Mark did not say -all- the posts prior to three months ago
were removed. He said that about three months ago, a -number- of posts were
expired. The articles still do go quite a ways back, but not as far back as
they used to. I think at least the oldest years worth were removed.

--
Paul Vanukoff

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