Tony Lance
2011-02-19 20:15:13 UTC
Big Bertha Thing burster
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://www.bigberthathing.com/gammaray.html
16K Web Page
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.seti
Gamma Ray Bursters
v1.0
01 feb 2000
Greg Goebel
public domain
Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY
Big Bertha Thing publication
The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-
20 No. 50K primary postings (out of 26)
2 No. 600K ditto (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings (out of 200)
4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K ditto (out of 26)
20 No. 2K ditto (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings (out of 2000)
There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.
Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.
The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance
***@bigberthathing.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "David W. Fenton" <***@dfenton.com.invalid>
Date: May 30, 6:57 pm
Subject: Any suggestion for Access forums after June 1?
To: microsoft.public.access.formscoding
Usenet simply doesn't work that way.
The MS NNTP server will close, and the web interface to that server
will be gone.
But the newsgroups can and will continue to be propagated on all the
other NNTP servers that carry them.
Now, it's possible for MS to issue a rmgroup command, but those are
so easily forged that most NNTP servers have been ignoring them for
eons, so it's unlikely that any effort MS makes to cleanse Usenet of
its public newsgroups will work.
I recently read that the "powers that be" are considering creating a
bunch of new MS newsgroups in the comp.* hieararchy to replace the
ms.public newsgroups, so keep your eyes open for that.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://www.bigberthathing.com/gammaray.html
16K Web Page
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.seti
Gamma Ray Bursters
v1.0
01 feb 2000
Greg Goebel
public domain
Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY
Big Bertha Thing publication
The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-
20 No. 50K primary postings (out of 26)
2 No. 600K ditto (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings (out of 200)
4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K ditto (out of 26)
20 No. 2K ditto (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings (out of 2000)
There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.
Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.
The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance
***@bigberthathing.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "David W. Fenton" <***@dfenton.com.invalid>
Date: May 30, 6:57 pm
Subject: Any suggestion for Access forums after June 1?
To: microsoft.public.access.formscoding
The Microsoft NNTP newsgroups will close.
No, no, no, no.Usenet simply doesn't work that way.
The MS NNTP server will close, and the web interface to that server
will be gone.
But the newsgroups can and will continue to be propagated on all the
other NNTP servers that carry them.
Now, it's possible for MS to issue a rmgroup command, but those are
so easily forged that most NNTP servers have been ignoring them for
eons, so it's unlikely that any effort MS makes to cleanse Usenet of
its public newsgroups will work.
I recently read that the "powers that be" are considering creating a
bunch of new MS newsgroups in the comp.* hieararchy to replace the
ms.public newsgroups, so keep your eyes open for that.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/