Asked By R. C. White
05-Nov-09 10:09 AM

Hi, Mullet.
Wow! Now we are getting second generation slurping/leeching! Our posts will
be spreading like a flu virus. :>(
The "forum" (TechArena?) where you posted your message, probably made you
choose a username and password, giving the appearance of "belonging" and at
least "exclusivity" - and probably of some security, too. And then, the
forum simply forwarded your post to the worldwide insecure public Usenet,
specifically to the Microsoft public news server - where I am reading it in
the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup. Since these
newsgroups are open to everyone, it is not surprising that my post - and
yours - appear in every other "forum" that also chooses to slurp posts from
the Microsoft servers. So, our messages appear in the Microsoft newsgroups
AND in TechArena and MANY other forums, including those that you DID NOT
subscribe to. (And they all collect revenue from sources such as "Ads by
Google", making money from the messages we post freely.)
Welcome to the world of Usenet! ;<)
If you would like to "cut out the middleman" and post directly to this Microsoft
news server, which is free and does not require you to log on, just click
here:
That will connect you to this same newsgroup, reading the same messages (Hi,
again, Desmond!), but using your newsreader, rather than your browser.
But, no, I do not know anything about SDTable. :^{
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64