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Re: Anyone want some Ipomea seeds?
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| In article <JohnOGroats.1uk1jy@gardenbanter.co.uk>, JohnOGroats
<JohnOGroats.1uk1jy@gardenbanter.co.uk> writes
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>Interested but what is Ipomea?
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It's in the same family as bindweed.
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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"
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| dotCompost 2005-08-31, 11:21 am |
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I'm glad I didn't apply for some seeds then..!!
I was about to request a few seeds, but didn't know what they were, so
hesitated. Also I couldn't find any contact details and I wasn't going
to put my email address in a post. Big No No. Glad I did wait..!! I had
no idea that this (out-of-date) offer came from outside GardenBanter. I
didn't know that folk from "usenet poster" popped in here. I don't
understand why - it seems they don't wish to be part of GardenBanter.
Perhaps GardenBanter is something other than what it appears to be, and
I should reconsider my involvement here...
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dotCompost
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| martin 2005-08-31, 12:21 pm |
| On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:40:08 +0000, dotCompost
<dotCompost.1umtk0@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote:
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>I'm glad I didn't apply for some seeds then..!!
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>I was about to request a few seeds, but didn't know what they were, so
>hesitated. Also I couldn't find any contact details and I wasn't going
>to put my email address in a post. Big No No. Glad I did wait..!! I had
>no idea that this (out-of-date) offer came from outside GardenBanter. I
>didn't know that folk from "usenet poster" popped in here.
We don't. Garden Banter rips off uk.rec.gardening posts
> I don't
>understand why - it seems they don't wish to be part of GardenBanter.
I don't want to be part of Garden Banter or have my posts appear on
Garden Banter.
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>Perhaps GardenBanter is something other than what it appears to be,
It is!!!
> and
>I should reconsider my involvement here...
Maybe all Garden Banter members should know that their posts to Garden
Banter are copied all over the world. Maybe Garden Banter should stop
copying stuff from uk.rec.gardening newsgroup to Garden Banter without
the posters' permission.
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Martin
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| michael adams 2005-08-31, 12:21 pm |
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"dotCompost" <dotCompost.1umtk0@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote in message
news:dotCompost.1umtk0@gardenbanter.co.uk...
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> I'm glad I didn't apply for some seeds then..!!
>
> I was about to request a few seeds, but didn't know what they were, so
> hesitated. Also I couldn't find any contact details and I wasn't going
> to put my email address in a post. Big No No. Glad I did wait..!! I had
> no idea that this (out-of-date) offer came from outside GardenBanter. I
> didn't know that folk from "usenet poster" popped in here. I don't
> understand why - it seems they don't wish to be part of GardenBanter.
....
UseNet is a collection of maybe hundreds of thousands of different
NewsGroups
on every topic you can imagine. From local groups for South East England,
to computers, to television programmes, to politics, to every concievable
hobby including gardening under the Sun and it stretches worldwide with an
emphasis mainly on the US. Once you've logged onto a NewsServer, you can
read
and take part in any of these thousands of groups. You can also do so by
going through Google Groups, which is on the Web. However nobody holds any
copyright on anything you post in NewsGroups once it goes into the public
domain, providing they're not going to profit directly from it, or pass it
off as someone else's. You have the opportunity to remove posts from
server archives after a certain period, but that may not work for every
server. If you subscribe to a Newsserver you can read and take part
in gardening interest and any other newsgroups from around the world. And
all for free except subscribing to a NewsServer. Try googling for
"news.individual", which costs ten euros a year.
michael adams
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> Perhaps GardenBanter is something other than what it appears to be, and
> I should reconsider my involvement here...
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> --
> dotCompost
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| Janet Baraclough 2005-08-31, 3:21 pm |
| The message <cqebh1h0s6h7lf0h6ji1jhvhc8p4ji8o89@4ax.com>
from martin <me@privacy.net> contains these words:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:40:08 +0000, dotCompost
> <dotCompost.1umtk0@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote:
[color=darkred]
> We don't. Garden Banter rips off uk.rec.gardening posts
[color=darkred]
> I don't want to be part of Garden Banter or have my posts appear on
> Garden Banter.
OOPS..
[color=darkred]
> It is!!!
[color=darkred]
> Maybe all Garden Banter members should know that their posts to Garden
> Banter are copied all over the world. Maybe Garden Banter should stop
> copying stuff from uk.rec.gardening newsgroup to Garden Banter without
> the posters' permission.
Any poster to urg who wishes, can prevent their posts appearing on
gardenbanter by adding the preface x-no-archive-yes. Most newsreaders
can be set to do this automatically.
Of course, that means gardenbanter-readers only see a small part of
each discussion, as well as only part of each usenet post..and that's
before gardenbanter deletes all usenet posts it doesn't want its members
to see.
You really should get yourselves a proper newsreader, gardenbanterers.
You're being sold short by gardenbanter.
Janet.
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| Janet Baraclough 2005-08-31, 3:21 pm |
| The message <dotCompost.1umtk0@gardenbanter.co.uk>
from dotCompost <dotCompost.1umtk0@gardenbanter.co.uk> contains these words:
I had
> no idea that this (out-of-date) offer came from outside GardenBanter. I
> didn't know that folk from "usenet poster" popped in here. I don't
> understand why - it seems they don't wish to be part of GardenBanter.
Usenet posters don't "pop in" to gardenbanter, or wish to be part of
it. Gardenbanter steals usenet posts from usenet, reproduces them with
the sender's usenet address cut off (that's why you couldn't respond
direct to the seed offerer) and allows its own rather dim gardenbanter
members to think they are using a garden forum set up and run by
gardenbanter.
> Perhaps GardenBanter is something other than what it appears to be, and
> I should reconsider my involvement here...
Well, you got that bit right.
You imagine, don't you, that you posted the above message on a website
called gardenbanter. That this is a forum about gardening, run by
gardenbanter for its members. You're wrong.
Gardenbanter forwarded your message to another, completely different,
independent section of the internet called usenet, to a gardening
discussion group called uk.rec.gardening over which gardenbanter
excercises no control. Apparently, without your knowledge or consent.
Gardenbanter will then pick up my message from usenet, strip off my
contact address and usenet details, and repost it on their own crappy
website to make its members think I posted it on gardenbanter.
Janet
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