Boycott CBS

In article RW Julian writes:
I think it is time to quit reminding the political types in this
newsgroup that the word "coins" is in the title. With the proliferation
of fake names it has become a waste of time anyway.

What bothers me more than anything political in this newsgroups is that there
is still a quite large group of readers that think it is US only. If you
get a bit political on occasion, I have no problem with that, and might
even respond on occasion (for some reason US politics has also some
influence overhere). The Columbus day thread amuses me, before it came
up I never even had heard of it. It amused me more so because it came up
on a TV quiz recently. The question was: "When in the US is Columbus day".
The possible answers we
1. 4th of July
2. Second monday in October
3. 14th of February
The question was answered incorrectly by about 60% of the participants.
So a plethora of posts congratulating me on the 4th of July do nothing
to me. And, yes, they do occur (not only in this newsgroup). I have
also no affection at all for the 14th of February. The super-bowl?
What's that to me? Nipple-gate? Just something amusing. (And to be
sure, it even was shown overhere on the TV news. Shocking?)

So, yes, in general I read and just shrug my shoulders.

But RJW's allegations of fake names need quite a bit more backing than
he gives.
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"RW Julian" wrote in message
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An interesting childish scribble from someone who purports to be at
austin.com but really
is at rr.com, the home base for one of the other political posters, no
dout a "coincidence"
although there is little doubt that fake names and addresses are quite
common. It is also worth
noting that this "other" person at rr.com also uses a fake return address,
no doubt another coincidence.
And the "other" person posts endless poltical material. Probably just more
coincidence. But it does
provide nice evidence of how upset some people get if they are interrupted
telling the rest of us
how important THEIR version of politics is.


Try looking at the posting IP address. I have been in Europe for the last
week and a half. I have not been posting to any newsgroups. So put that
notion of me using a sock puppet to rest.