Being OT on RCTN

WAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Since KCat is leaving, I might as well take the opportunity to step back in. I really missed hanging out here. OT posts are a part of life, and especially part of this group.

I didn't mean to drop off the face of the earth. And I'd like to apologize to everybody I was privately corresponding with that I never replied to. The computer died way back when I originally disappeared. Took a while to fix and I lost a lot of stuff. Then I spent a good chunk of summer visiting my family back in West Virginia (YAY!) and catching up on things. I've finally got my own puter to curse at and got the newsreader working.

Also managed to get a copy of PatternMaker, and boy were y'all right...it's a dream to work with.

Missed you all! Becky A

PS: KCat, despite your seeming obsession with OT posts, it seems you forgot to mark your own OT post as such. WHOOPS!

Funny how we all curse at our computers. I know it`s tempting Providence but I haven`t had to curse my new one so far (Only had it a few weeks, but, for the first time, I had it built locally instead of buying a ready-made one. What as difference! Even my grandson is impressed).

Pat P

Truly, a home-brew computer is the best option anymore. The cookie-cutter boxes that Dell (among others) are trying to sell are utter crap. It's awful how much they crank up the prices on substandard parts.

Gold star for you, Pat! Becky A

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:40:40 GMT, KCat muttered something like:

IME, it is pointless to read usenet without a good filter. Use it to filter based on what you don't want to waste time with, such as excessive cross-posting, off-topic messages clearly labelled as such, authors named Phil, or whatever your personal criteria happen to be. This group is actually pretty good about labelling OT threads, so applying a filter would help there if you wanted to make the effort rather than chastise the group for not meeting your expectations of what it should be like. (I can't imagine what other purpose you could possibly have for posting to a group to announce you won't be reading it.)

-Bertha

Oh well.....

Even reading thru google as I do, I can ignore OT posts (when properly marked) if I choose. I know when I used to read thru AOL (when AOL still provided the service) I could as well, and filter them had I chosen to.

C'est la vie, or le guerre, whichever seems most appropriate I guess.

Caryn

So long. Have a good life. I guess you're so very busy now that you haven't even got enough time to use capitals at the beginning of your sentences. Lucille

And that IS the truth!! Thank goodness my hubby is a computer "geek" or I'd still be rattling along with the 40 mg one I had to begin with! Never knew I'd need more power, more room, more ram, more ....

Bless it's widdle heart ... guess she slept through basic grammar!

snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com had some very interesting things to say about Re: Being OT on RCTN:

I have a pet techie myself, and he keeps FrankenPuter running well :-). (The computer is named for the "piece here, bit there" upgrade style. (smile))

Bertha wrote: ...... This group is

Add to this the fact that the person decided to start reading again after a horrendous natural disaster that had the whole country agitated! WHAT did she expect?? Especially since she had read the group before and knew how we get when something extremely good or bad happens -- at the end of the long, hot summer too! Good or bad, most excessive OT threads usually start to slow down within a few weeks anyway. Oh -- FYI for some who might not be aware -- an OT thread can start off properly labeled. Some servers will remove the OT so that when a person responds, it comes through as a regular thread. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

OOOOO -- naughty Lucille :-))! Shall we start a round of GrammEr PUlice threads -- r, d, h -- LOL. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Tee hee ... "pet techie" ... I'll tell him that's my new name for him

-- LOVE IT!

So many people post that way now, it irritates me no end. I know using one's pinkie to hit the shift key is an awful lot of work, but really, make the effort folks! LOL

Caryn

snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com had some very interesting things to say about Re: Being OT on RCTN:

:-). Mine doesn't seem to object. :-)

Lucille

Seanette... That's too funny, ours is named Frankenputer too! (Except we're on to Frankenputer the third....). Thanks for making my monday morning at work! Heather

"Tia Mary" wrote

I'd be careful about that--Darla's back with weeks worth of unused semicolons and commas. Dawne

OMG -- that's right YIKES -- we're in for it now -- LOLOL! And here I thought my hyphens were a problem :-)))) CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Funny how Germanic names lend themselves to recalcitrant computers! One of our friends calls hers "Verdamt". LOL! Not going to tell you what I used to call my old one - such language is really not suitable for eith this nesgroup of a lady of my advanced years! B-))

Pat P