Re: So long, and thanks for all the fish

On 28/02/2024 12:58, J. J. Lodder wrote:

Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 23/02/2024 08:58, jillery wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:20:06 +0000, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 22/02/2024 14:01, jillery wrote:

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:13:24 +0000, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 19/02/2024 04:23, jillery wrote:

On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:13:56 -0700, Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
wrote:
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 02:07:44 -0500, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>:
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:24:42 -0800, erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
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I've no idea what DIG uses to read TO, or if he's doing so now.  I
assume he will still be the nominal "boss" if he so chooses.

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DIG?
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David Ian Greig, the t.o moderator (actually, the Keeper of
the Moderator).

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I presume even you understand my question isn't who is DIG, but how
Erik's reference to DIG informs the discussion.

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DIG rarely uses the power to exclude people
from talk.origins.  People are here because
DIG allows them to be.

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Is that supposed to answer my question?

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Yes.  The preceding remarks included the need
to ban a few people.  Over and over again,
when necessary.  And of such is the kingdom
of DIG.

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Really?  My understanding is which newsreader DIG uses isn't relevant
to "the need to ban a few people".  Apparently your mileage varies.

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This is going to sound more and more theological
but it isn't very clear that DIG reads in this
group at all.  That's the "if he's doing so now"
part.  And it's plausible that he has been using
Google Groups as a convenient reading and
statistics service.  We don't know.

 Huh? DIG has direct access to the spool.
Why would he even think of reading back things that have gone out?

With newsgroup interface software, you can
read selectively.  You can search for
particular text in messages.  It may be not
!easy to do that on the server side -
though it isn't necessarily hard to feed
the messages to your own news server.
I am committing theological speculation,
as I say.  I believe that DIG does not
personally see most of what is posted in
t.o.  DIG rarely posts himself.  When he
does, that is likely to reveal what he is
posting with, and possibly reading with.
There may be two different answers to two
questions.  I haven't investigated, and
I do not see another regular coming forward
to say that DIG is known to favour,
Say, NZBGet.
I think we are not meant to know.