On Apr 2, 7:32 pm, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 2, 6:50 pm, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > > > On Apr 2, 2:34 pm, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Methinks the OP is fluent in the way of choosing newsgroups. > > > According to google, he has posted 6855 messages in 213 groups. > > > Does that really mean anything? Hell, I have 12765 messages > > posted to 332 groups, but I only use 10 regularly. > > Well, I have been very wrong in my assumptions before, but yes, I do > assume it means something:
Yes, you are, in fact, all wet. > > - I assume that the OP knows of the existence of more than one > newsgroup. "More than one", that's fair. 213, unlikely. > > - I assume the OP knows how to locate different newsgroups, either via > search or some directory like yahoo, and is able to think about which > one he wants to post to and why. And most of those probably involved no thought at all, probably due to cross-posting from a relatively small number of sources (certainly in my case). So, no, this stat proves nothing about the OP's ability to find newsgroups or think about their appropriateness. > > - I assume that he is comfortable with the process of posting. In > fact, looking at the stats, about half as comfortable as mensanator, > and over 18 times as comfortable as me ;-) Well, _I've_ been here on Usenet for 10 years. But despite the stats, I know little about most to the groups I've "posted to". > > Of course, I could be all wet in my assumptions, and it may just be > that the OP has a cat constantly walking back and forth across his > keyboard... Don't you know how Usenet works? > > Regards, > Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list