Nobody put the number "five" in the subject lines of their..

Unable to grasp the basic concepts of the English language, Shawk
<shawk.RemoveThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses> managed to randomly swat at his keyboard and
produce the following:

> Busty Ruttocks wrote:
>> Ok, I'm no longer going to use Wonderturd for usenet. No way to simply
>> *delete* a message so I no longer have to see it
>
> Or you could just press 'k'... ?
>

Which adds a little red circle with a line through it to the thread
column, and after closing and reopening the newsgroup, this gets rid of
the messages... or crashes Thunderbird. Mostly the crash thing. I really
wanted to like Thunderbird, but it will simply have to serve as an email-
only client from now on.
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phexitol wrote:
> Unable to grasp the basic concepts of the English language, Shawk
> <shawk.DeleteThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses> managed to randomly swat at his keyboard and
> produce the following:
>
>> Busty Ruttocks wrote:
>>> Ok, I'm no longer going to use Wonderturd for usenet. No way to simply
>>> *delete* a message so I no longer have to see it
>> Or you could just press 'k'... ?
>>
>
> Which adds a little red circle with a line through it to the thread
> column, and after closing and reopening the newsgroup, this gets rid of
> the messages... or crashes Thunderbird. Mostly the crash thing. I really


Oh. In my book that counts as deleting a message so I never have to see
it again

However never had a crash here in a few years of use so that's a shame.


> wanted to like Thunderbird, but it will simply have to serve as an email-
> only client from now on.


What's Xnews like?
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phexitol wrote:
> Unable to grasp the basic concepts of the English language, Shawk
> <shawk RemoveThis @clara.co.uk.3guesses> managed to randomly swat at his keyboard and
> produce the following:
>
>
>>Busty Ruttocks wrote:
>>
>>>Ok, I'm no longer going to use Wonderturd for usenet. No way to simply
>>>*delete* a message so I no longer have to see it
>>
>>Or you could just press 'k'... ?
>>
>
>
> Which adds a little red circle with a line through it to the thread
> column, and after closing and reopening the newsgroup, this gets rid of
> the messages... or crashes Thunderbird. Mostly the crash thing. I really
> wanted to like Thunderbird, but it will simply have to serve as an email-
> only client from now on.

What version of TB do you use? I've never had it crash after 'k'ing a
thread. Originally, TB used to do precisely what you're talking about,
except that it was changed because people didn't like the fact that it
was too easy to killfile entire threads accidentally, with no easy way
to get the thread back. You can't please everyone I guess

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Excited after finally graduating kindergarten after 20 gruelling years,
Ben Cottrell <bench.DeleteThis@bench333.screaming.net> burst forth on this most
auspicious occasion with the following:

> phexitol wrote:
>> Unable to grasp the basic concepts of the English language, Shawk
>> <shawk.DeleteThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses> managed to randomly swat at his keyboard
>> and produce the following:
>>
>>
>>>Busty Ruttocks wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ok, I'm no longer going to use Wonderturd for usenet. No way to
>>>>simply *delete* a message so I no longer have to see it
>>>
>>>Or you could just press 'k'... ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Which adds a little red circle with a line through it to the thread
>> column, and after closing and reopening the newsgroup, this gets rid
>> of the messages... or crashes Thunderbird. Mostly the crash thing. I
>> really wanted to like Thunderbird, but it will simply have to serve
>> as an email- only client from now on.
>
> What version of TB do you use? I've never had it crash after 'k'ing a
> thread. Originally, TB used to do precisely what you're talking
> about, except that it was changed because people didn't like the fact
> that it was too easy to killfile entire threads accidentally, with no
> easy way to get the thread back. You can't please everyone I guess
>
>

Well, that "no easy way to get threads back" is the exact reason I no
longer use TBird, since it's still there (maybe they should have fixed
that instead). I didn't know about the K thing, and they stupidly have
DELETE set to issue the CANCEL command, which almost absolutely no
newsserver around today honors, so I unsubscribed and deleted all
messages in my groups, hoping to be able to reload them. Unfortunately,
TBird uses a hidden cache (which isn't so hidden that I can't find it if
I need to, but I'm just too lazy and annoyed to bother), which makes it
exceptionally difficult to load only the newest N messages for groups
that have previously been subscribed to (it loads older messages first).
Couple that with Giganews awesome retention (it has messages for this
group back to June 2003), and you have a recipe for pain.

Thunderbird is the thinking man's Outlook Express: sure, it's a much
better app, but it's still not a real newsreader. Of course, in TBird's
defense, I must say that I have confidence that this issue may be fixed
eventually, which I definitely can't say about anything made by
Microsoft.

XNews, btw, is a real (awesome) newsreader. There are only two things I
don't like about XNews, and there are easy workarounds for both of them.
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LymanAlpha <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote in news:boAej.1239$pA7.1012
@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net:

> I think the only way to deal with MI5 crazy guy is to filter out all
> posts with 5 in the subject line.
>
> Sound good?
>

I would filter on all variations of "Persecution"
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Taking a brief moment from his rigorous duties as a
superhero/gynecologist, Tweek <tweek.RemoveThis@theinternets.com> burst forth on
this most auspicious occasion with the following:

>
> I would filter on all variations of "Persecution"
>

Yep. See my post from Thursday for some suggested variations taken
from his subject lines.
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phexitol wrote:
> Taking a brief moment from his rigorous duties as a
> superhero/gynecologist, Tweek <tweek.DeleteThis@theinternets.com> burst forth on
> this most auspicious occasion with the following:
>
>
>> I would filter on all variations of "Persecution"
>>
>>
>
> Yep. See my post from Thursday for some suggested variations taken
> from his subject lines.
>
It seems like no one is posting about anything else for the last week.
Looking at Google groups, it looks like MI5 guy went back into
hibernation for a while on Jan. 2.

To get back on topic, I just finished playing Episode 2 and was a little
disappointed. The final strider fight annoying. Except for the very
end there isn't much in the story that is at risk from spoilers, if you
get what I mean. I enjoy the universe that Half-Life inhabits and the
narrative didn't get expanded on or pushed forward much in this episode.

Episode 3 better be epic. (I really liked Episode 1)

--
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LymanAlpha wrote:
> phexitol wrote:
>>
>>> I would filter on all variations of "Persecution"
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yep. See my post from Thursday for some suggested variations taken
>> from his subject lines.
>>
>
>
It seems like no one is posting about anything else for the last week.
Looking at Google groups, it looks like MI5 guy went back into
hibernation for a while on Jan. 2.

To get back on topic, I just finished playing Episode 2 and was a little
disappointed. The final strider fight was annoying. Except for the
very end there isn't much in the story that is at risk from spoilers,
if you get what I mean. I enjoy the universe that Half-Life inhabits
and the narrative didn't get expanded on or pushed forward much in this
episode.

Episode 3 better be epic. (I really liked Episode 1)

--
"be more constructive with your feedback, please."

Steve --Inglo--
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:07:02 GMT, LymanAlpha <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote:

>LymanAlpha wrote:
>> phexitol wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would filter on all variations of "Persecution"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yep. See my post from Thursday for some suggested variations taken
>>> from his subject lines.
>>>
>>
>>
>It seems like no one is posting about anything else for the last week.
>Looking at Google groups, it looks like MI5 guy went back into
>hibernation for a while on Jan. 2.
>
>To get back on topic, I just finished playing Episode 2 and was a little
>disappointed. The final strider fight was annoying. Except for the
>very end there isn't much in the story that is at risk from spoilers,
>if you get what I mean. I enjoy the universe that Half-Life inhabits
>and the narrative didn't get expanded on or pushed forward much in this
>episode.
>
>Episode 3 better be epic. (I really liked Episode 1)

I enjoyed Ep2 more than Ep1....

Althought the bloody ending was crazy....I never thought I'd get past
it....They just kept coming!
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:07:02 GMT, LymanAlpha <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote:

> To get back on topic, I just finished playing Episode 2 and was a
> little disappointed. The final strider fight was annoying.

I actually found it a lot of fun once I realized how you were supposed
to do it. Splat the Hunters with your car, then grab the gizmo off the
back and let fly. (It also helps to quick-save right before you let
fly, in case you miss.) It's a *lot* easier when the Hunters are that
much less of a bother.

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Robotech_Master wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:07:02 GMT, LymanAlpha <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote:
>
>
>> To get back on topic, I just finished playing Episode 2 and was a
>> little disappointed. The final strider fight was annoying.
>>
>
> I actually found it a lot of fun once I realized how you were supposed
> to do it. Splat the Hunters with your car, then grab the gizmo off the
> back and let fly. (It also helps to quick-save right before you let
> fly, in case you miss.) It's a *lot* easier when the Hunters are that
> much less of a bother.
>
>
I figured that out too but unfortunately I was playing the game on the
XBox 360 and I never quite got the hang of handling the Charger with the
360 control.
Playing the game on the 360 was a bit of a chore as well, maybe that was
where my problems were. Switching weapons is complicated on the 360,
you use the 4 way D pad to select weapon slots, again... something I
didn't quite get the hang of. The best 360 shooters only let you choose
between two weapons. When I was trying to switch between the gravity
gun and the pistol I kept ending up with the crossbow or something else
I didn't want.

I'm going through the game again with the commentary on, maybe it'll be
more enjoyable the second time through

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