Re: OT: Ping Agent Users

On 23/12/2024 9:54 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:22:08 +0000, Brian Howie
<Brian@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:19:44 +0000, Brian Howie <Brian@nospam.co.uk>
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:09:54 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:

<snip>

Yes, indeed. That does work and I did actually thank legg for
suggesting it but for some reason the post doesn't seem to have
appeared. Not the only recent post I've made that simply disappeared
into the ether. Probably something to do with Bill Sloman. ;->

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality does seem to be fading away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup
makes it clear that posts to one instance of a user-group get passed on to all the others. It's one more application of the original Arpanet idea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
If Cursitor Doom's posts "disappear into the ether", he didn't put them in properly in the first place. Once the data packet has been launched into the internet you don't know how it will get to it's intended destination which makes it pretty much impossible to block it.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney