Orkut

Steve Wertz said:

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> Mate, you said Orkut was trying to "moderate Usenet".

Dude, you're taking me way too literally. Stop being
so anal.

You did say that. Orkut is unmoderated.

It's moderated in the sense that you need an invitation.

To join Orkut itself. Anybody can join open communities.

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And if someone starts to go Sheldon on the community -
there's no way to remove him?

Report them to Orkut. Unlike Usenet, you *can* do something
about trolls there.

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I do not know where you got that from, but Darryl is not
being anal.

Yes - he is.

I'm only being "anal" in that you used a word without
knowing what it meant and I corrected you. You're doing the
typical "I'm not to blame for my incorrectness, you are for
wanting me to use words properly".

Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

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With Orkut, you can access your account from any computer
with a web browser. With Usenet, you have to be on the
machine with your news reader.

When away from my computer I use Google Groups--
accessible from any computer anywhere. While at grad
school I used Google Groups exclusively since my college
did not have Usenet access and while in Japan, I used
deja.com (I still use deja.com technically, since that's
always the address I use :-)) *and* my news reader since
my news service sucked.

Okay. For me, I use KNode to read newsgroups. When I'm away
from the machine with my home directory on it, I can access
newsgroups via groups.google.com as well. However, I have to
remember what threads I'm watching, what messages I have
read and what ones I haven't, etc. So, yes, you can access
the messages but you have no held state of where you were
last time you accessed them.

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Why a new for rec.food.cooking in Usenet? Some people
prefer a web-based system. I've tried for *years* to get
my wife involved in Usenet, but she and her friends are
more comfortable with things like Delphi since they

can

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control the who sees their conversations without having
to go to email and CC'ing everybody they want to include.

Does Orkut let you do all that? I can see how that would
be a benefit over rec.food.cooking the Usenet group.
Though doesn't rfc chat let you do that, too?

With *all* of Orkut, you can send messages to specific
people, you can setup a moderated public group, you can
setup an invite-only group, etc.

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John Gaughan said:

Are any of you guys on Google's orkut? We could start a
RFC group. If you are not on orkut and want to be, let
me know.

I am. Username is micheinnz.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

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John Gaughan said:

Steve Wertz said:

It's an attempt to collect marketing data about you and
commercialize what we now know as USENET.

No, you are thinking about Microsoft's service, I forget
the name but it mines data from Usenet. Orkut is just a
community site, totally unrelated to Usenet.

And they only collect as much marketing data as you give
them. The number of compulsory fields is really pretty
small, and I haven't received any spam from them.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

Miche <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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In article <[email hidden]>,

John Gaughan said:

Are any of you guys on Google's orkut? We could start a
RFC group. If you are not on orkut and want to be, let
me know.

I am. Username is micheinnz.

Miche

Miche,

I would like to be a part of Orkut. I'm interested to see
what its all about. [email hidden] is my email
address. Hope to see you there soon. Thanks.

Stan

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(Stan) said:

Miche <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<micheinnz-
[email hidden]>...

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In article <[email hidden]>,

John Gaughan said:

Are any of you guys on Google's orkut? We could start
a RFC group. If you are not on orkut and want to be,
let me know.

I am. Username is micheinnz.

Miche

Miche,

I would like to be a part of Orkut. I'm interested to see
what its all about. [email hidden] is my email
address. Hope to see you there soon. Thanks.

Are you actually asking for an invite or just saying you
will see us there soon?

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

please add me as [email hidden]

Steve

Stan said:

Miche <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<micheinnz-
[email hidden]>...

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In article <[email hidden]>,

John Gaughan said:

Are any of you guys on Google's orkut? We could start a
RFC group. If you are not on orkut and want to be, let
me know.

I am. Username is micheinnz.

Miche

Miche,

I would like to be a part of Orkut. I'm interested to see
what its all about. [email hidden] is my email
address. Hope to see you there soon. Thanks.

Stan

Steve YATES <[email hidden]> wrote in
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please add me as [email hidden]

Steve

Stan said:

Miche <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<micheinnz-
[email hidden]>...

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In article <[email hidden]>,
John Gaughan <[email hidden]> wrote:

>Are any of you guys on Google's orkut? We could start a
>RFC group. If you are not on orkut and want to be, let
>me know.

I am. Username is micheinnz.

Miche

Miche,

I would like to be a part of Orkut. I'm interested to see
what its all about. [email hidden] is my email
address. Hope to see you there soon. Thanks.

Stan

Please add me as username: hahabogus email: [email hidden]

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on
nothing but food and water.
--------
FIELDS, W. C.

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Steve YATES said:

please add me as [email hidden]

I can't add you, you'll have to add yourself.

I'll send you an invite and then it's up to you to do
something with it.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

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Steve YATES said:

please add me as [email hidden]

Sorry Steve, I tried several times but I couldn't make it
work for you.

🙁

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

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hahabogus said:

Please add me as username: hahabogus email: [email hidden]

OK, but you're the last one. 🙂

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

Miche <[email hidden]> wrote in news:micheinnz-
[email hidden]:

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hahabogus said:

Please add me as username: hahabogus email:
[email hidden]

OK, but you're the last one. 🙂

Miche

thanks

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on
nothing but food and water.
--------
FIELDS, W. C.

"Miche" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve YATES said:

please add me as [email hidden]

I can't add you, you'll have to add yourself.

I'll send you an invite and then it's up to you to do
something with it.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

please add me

orion [email hidden]

thanks a bunch!

I actually had 3 invitations to join from you ! Joined as
say42 and am looking for a suitable mugshot to add

Thanks for your efforts

Steve

Miche said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve YATES said:

please add me as [email hidden]

Sorry Steve, I tried several times but I couldn't make it
work for you.

🙁

Miche

"Steve YATES" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
: please add me as [email hidden]
:
: Steve
:
: Stan wrote:
: > Miche <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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: >
: >> In article <[email hidden]>,
: >> John Gaughan <[email hidden]> wrote:
: >>
: >>
: >>>Are any of you guys on Google's orkut? We could start
: >>>a RFC
group. If
: >>>you are not on orkut and want to be, let me know.
: >>
: >>I am. Username is micheinnz.
: >>
: >>Miche
: >
: >
: > Miche,
: >
: > I would like to be a part of Orkut. I'm interested
: > to see
what its all about.
: > [email hidden] is my email address. Hope to
: > see you
there soon. Thanks.
: >
: > Stan
: =====

May I come and play too?

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"Miche" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:micheinnz-
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berlin.de said:

please add me as [email hidden]

I can't add you, you'll have to add yourself.

I'll send you an invite and then it's up to you to do
something with it.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

please add me

orion [email hidden]

thanks a bunch!

Sorry, I said "no more" after Alan.

I'm sure you can find someone to send you an invite.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

Miche said:

Sorry, I said "no more" after Alan.

I'm sure you can find someone to send you an invite.

Yeah - it's a very exclusive club. You can't just go letting
everyone in, then it'd be just like Yahoo groups!

-sw

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Steve Wertz said:

Miche said:

Sorry, I said "no more" after Alan.

I'm sure you can find someone to send you an invite.

Yeah - it's a very exclusive club. You can't just go
letting everyone in, then it'd be just like Yahoo groups!

I never planned to set myself up as a serial adding service.
It's not "exclusive" in that way -- it's just not how I
planned to spend my time.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

Steve Wertz said:

Yeah - it's a very exclusive club. You can't just go
letting everyone in,

No, not everyone. Just you.

--
Darryl L. Pierce <[email hidden]> Visit the Infobahn
Offramp - <http://mypage.org/mcpierce> "What do you care
what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

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please add me

orion [email hidden]

thanks a bunch!

Sorry, I said "no more" after Alan.

I'm sure you can find someone to send you an invite.

Miche

--
If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. --
Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

I didn't see the "no more" after Alan, if I had I wouldn't
have asked you. No biggie, just thought it might be fun to
take a look. I can understand you're not wanting to be
bogged down with requests. My computer/news group time is
almost nill these dayz, working 50 hr weeks and all.

Suzan