Google groups abuse reporting

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:13:32 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:

> Read it again - I didn't suggest complaining to google, which is a black
> hole for complaints. A more useful thing to do is to complain to YOUR
> news provider - after all, you're their customer. If you can get your
> news provider to de-peer, and a few dozen others, google may eventually
> get the message.

Tried that. It got nowhere.

> In the mean time, have you also stopped using and/or
> recommending use of google. That reduces their ad revenue, and THAT will
> get their attention.

It's almost impossible not to use google's search engine.

> Hotmail was part of microsoft, right?

Since about 1997.

> Microsoft IP space has been
> blocked here for several years. (64.4.0.0/18, 65.52.0.0/14.
> 207.46.0.0/16 and 204.231.194.0 - 204.231.223.255 gets rid of a lot of
> crap).

Can't do that. Our customers have extensive contacts with hotmail users.
I certainly do not want the task of explaining to a bunch of lusers why
their mail from hotmail.com is blocked.

> Yeah, well I want 21 cent/gallon gasoline like it was when I bought my
> first car. I don't think either is going to happen very soon.

The ever popular gas wars saw that price drop to 15 - 17 cents/gal.

I demand that Dave Uhring may or may not have written...

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:13:32 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:
[snip]
>> Yeah, well I want 21 cent/gallon gasoline like it was when I bought my
>> first car. I don't think either is going to happen very soon.

> The ever popular gas wars saw that price drop to 15 - 17 cents/gal.

Gas? That'd be LPG, presumably... ;-)

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On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<4F19ECB108%news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> , Darren Salt wrote:

>I demand that Dave Uhring may or may not have written...

I'm sure that is supposed to make some sense in English.

>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:13:32 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:

>>> Yeah, well I want 21 cent/gallon gasoline like it was when I bought
>>> my first car. I don't think either is going to happen very soon.
>>
>> The ever popular gas wars saw that price drop to 15 - 17 cents/gal.

There used to be a perpetual gas war on US 15 between Meriden and
Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Even though you'd burn a gallon
driving there (and back) to fill up.

>Gas? That'd be LPG, presumably... ;-)

Low Priced Gasoline - yeah, that sounds about right.

Old guy

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:44:56 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:

> There used to be a perpetual gas war on US 15 between Meriden and
> Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Even though you'd burn a gallon
> driving there (and back) to fill up.

We had 3 stations at one intersection in town - Standard, Sinclair and
Shell - almost constantly cutting prices on each other in the same time
period. No need to waste time or fuel to get the best price.

Only one of them survived, the Shell station and it's now a Phillips 66
owned by Indians.

I demand that Moe Trin may or may not have written...

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
> <4F19ECB108%news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> , Darren Salt wrote:
>> I demand that Dave Uhring may or may not have written...

> I'm sure that is supposed to make some sense in English.

You may or may not have to read the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy to
understand it :-)

>>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:13:32 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:
>>>> Yeah, well I want 21 cent/gallon gasoline like it was when I bought
>>>> my first car. I don't think either is going to happen very soon.
>>> The ever popular gas wars saw that price drop to 15 - 17 cents/gal.

> There used to be a perpetual gas war on US 15 between Meriden and Hartford,
> Connecticut in the 1950s. Even though you'd burn a gallon driving there
> (and back) to fill up.

Gallons of methane. Nice. ;-)

>> Gas? That'd be LPG, presumably... ;-)

> Low Priced Gasoline - yeah, that sounds about right.

Anyway, what is this "gasoline" stuff? Why can't you lot use petrol or
diesel, like everybody else?

<gd&r>

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It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!