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  #31  
Old February 19th 19, 12:47 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:44:11 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh
wrote:

On 2019-02-18, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:15:26 -0600, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

On 02/18/2019 11:01 AM, wrote:

On 18-Feb-2019, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Worse, here is my RESPONSE to MIke's privacy rant:
A. Mike essentially makes the claim that I have to DEFEND my right to
privacy.
B. I respond, strongly, with cites, that this is a common ignorant
statement.
C. When I ask Mike to provide cites backing up his ignorant claim, he
can't.



Let's state the super obvious things he
1. Nobody has to defend their right to privacy.
2. If you (Paul or Mike) want to claim otherwise, then back it up with
cites.
3. Rest assured, I already provided Mike with cites proving my point of
view.


What the hell are cites?

References.


Thanks, I was mistaking it for sites.



As far as I'm concerned, you are right, and the original post with the
word "cites" is wrong. "Cite" is a verb, not a noun. The noun is
"citation."

I'm sure I'm going to get arguments about this, telling me I'm an old
fuddy-duddy and I'm behind the times. So I'll repeat my first five
words in the paragraph above: "as far as I'm concerned."


English has the ability of making verbs into nouns.




I knew I would get an argument. Maybe more are coming.

You are certainly right. There are many, many examples of that. Some
of those have been around for a long time. Some of them started very
recently.

Making nouns out of verbs is only one example of the way English
changes. It also makes verbs out of nouns, and changes in many other
ways. Like all languages, English changes over the years. Today's
English isn't the same as Shakespeare's, and Shakespeare's wasn't the
same as Chaucer's. And Italian isn't the same as Latin.

I'm well aware of that. It's the nature of language. I can't object to
that; it's a fact of life. But I can object to it's happening very
quickly. To my way of thinking, because of television and the
Internet, these days it happens too quickly, much more quickly than it
used to. Too quickly, to me, means that it's very difficult for
everyone to keep up with it, and the result is that communication is
impeded.

So wherever possible, I personally avoid those "nouns" made of verbs.
I say (and write) "clean installation, " not "clean install,"
"invitation" not "invite," "citation" not "cite," and many other
examples that don't spring to the mind at the moment.

I know. I'm an old fuddy-duddy and I'm behind the times. So be it.

There's an office complex near my home that has a sign in front of it:
"If you officed here, you'd be home now." Besides making up the verb
"office" from the noun "office," the sign makes no sense.

Ads
  #32  
Old February 19th 19, 12:52 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:44:10 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Only after you really state the problem that you want to solve. When
that is known then we can offer solutions.


Hi Carlos,

Will you please just STOP foisting your CONFUSION onto me.
o Please.

I was NEVER confused about the "problem", Carlos.
o Read the opening post of this thread, Carlos.

Do I have to _beg_ you to read the opening post of this thread, Carlos?
o Read it.

Does that opening post NOT state the question in the SUBJECT line, Carlos?
o Does that OP not state the question in the CLOSING LINE Carlos?

You have to be an utter and complete IDIOT to be confused, Carlos.

Read the opening post, Carlos.
o Read it again.
o And again.
o And again.

Carlos, read it one more time, please.
o Do you notice the Subject, Carlos?
o Do you notice the closing line, Carlos?

Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?
A: (It's pretty clear I was almost completely sure the answer is no.)

Will you STOP with ascribing your confusion to me Carlos.
o You are confused.
o I'm NOT confused.

I was NEVER confused.
o Frank is confused. Mike is confused. Paul is confused.
o Rene is an idiot. So is Unruh an idiot. Purgert is a troll.

But I was never confused.
o My whole POINT was that the proxy very likely didn't exist.

So just STOP acribing YOUR confusion to me.
o The question is and always was, trivially simple to compreyhend.

The reason Paul, Mike, Frank, & you don't comprehend this simplest of the
simplest of the simplest of questions, is, I posit, the same reason that
the hypothetical southern hick can't comprehend that a Black Jewish female
doctor can exist.

The confusion is all yours, Carlos.
o I was never confused.

The question was asked in the assumption that the answer was zero.
  #33  
Old February 19th 19, 01:01 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 02/18/2019 5:08 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:24:50 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:



chop chop.
  #34  
Old February 19th 19, 01:04 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 02/18/2019 5:55 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:23:03 -0000 (UTC), arlen holder wrote:

more chop chop.
  #35  
Old February 19th 19, 01:10 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:35:27 +0100, Georg Schwarz wrote:

Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?


You could for example use a SOCKS proxy, but why would you want to do
that? Can't you connect directly to that free NNTP news server?


Hi George,

Thanks for the SOCK suggestion.

I admit I haven't "played" with SOCKS since I had to get Mixmin encryption
to work with, oh, was it "Pan" before Pan allowed it natively, so it has
been _years_ since I touched SOCKS.

To answer your question, of WHY, it was explained in the OP.

Essentially, this is what happened:
1. I wrote a quick VPN basics for beginners
2. Mike Easter responded, essentially, advising the following:
o Don't use VPN services.
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
3. I immediately summarized Mike's article as the following:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.mobile.android/Bv8bwG4ggnc/oAPYdk4QEgAJ

Mike Easter _continued_ to keyword troll the thread, in essence, ruining it
for beginners (which was, likely, Mike's intention from the start for all I
know, since nothing he said passed the simple 3-word ignorance test).

Many times I asked Mike to stop spewing ignorant bull****.
o Almost nothing Mike wrote passed the simple 3-word ignorance test.

Mike kept spewing more and more and more ignorant bull****.
o Mike couldn't comprehend that he couldn't comprehend.

Almost every post by Mike failed the 3-word ignorance test:
o Name just one

Since Mike refused to comprehend that the proxy doesn't exist,
I brought the question over here, and let Mike know I did that
(since I am an adult).

It's abundantly clear that I assumed the answer was "no", but, since I'm an
adult, I asked anyway, just in case the answer was not "no".

Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?

If the keyword trolls didn't exist, this thread would have remained on
topic, but keyword trolls are like the hypothetical southern hick who can't
comprehend the existence of a Black female Jewish doctor.

Everything BUT that simple question was covered by the keyword trolls,
almost all of which (if not all of which) was complete ignorant bull****
that didn't even pass the three word ignorance test of:
o Name just one

In the end, this thread likely should have been two post, the first asking:
Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?

*Name just one.*

And the second providing the most likely answer:
Q: *Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?*
A: *no*

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  #36  
Old February 19th 19, 01:18 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 2/17/19 6:15 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:29:54 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:

I have no interest in that question and I'm under no obligation to even
consider it worth discussing.


The question is actually very simple & rather easy to comprehend Mike.

Knowledgeable users who know the answer can add to our knowledge.

Q: What's a free proxy for the specific purpose of free Usenet posts?


Google is your friend.

I copied and pasted your question into Google; it came back with "About
481,000 results (0.78 seconds)"

The seventh result down the page was "25 Best Free Web Proxies for Safer
and Anonymous Surfing | SpyAdvice
https://spyadvice.com/free-web-proxies/"
While I didn't check out the cite/site, it does mention "It also
supports Usenet... posting..."



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  #37  
Old February 19th 19, 02:05 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
arlen holder
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:47:21 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

There's an office complex near my home that has a sign in front of it:
"If you officed here, you'd be home now." Besides making up the verb
"office" from the noun "office," the sign makes no sense.


I very much appreciate that the point was brought up, as I strive to speak
(Am)English correctly, even as Usenet is a "casual" ad hoc medium.

The folks like Cybe(r) Wizard and Dan Purgert, et al., have found that I
thank them, and appreciate when my English is corrected, when done so with
a helpful intent.

In the case of Rene Lamontagne, it's not lost on anyone that his
contribution (as has been that of Dan Purgert) to this thread has been
negative value added, hence, Rene was, likely ecstatic that he _thought_ he
found an "error" in my facts, much like Snit used to revel in his
accusations that my facts are wrong.

HINT: Watch this hilarious Snit video on the YouTube web site about me.
https://youtu.be/7QaABa6DFIo (Snit video)

DOUBLEHINT: Snit posted that cite to that site hundreds of times.
TRIPLEHINT: He _thought_ he _finally_ found my facts wrong.
QUADRUPLEHINT: He was so _sure_ of himself, just like Mike Easter was.

And yet, Snit never even _once_ comprehended the Y axis.

Notice, the similarity to what Mike Easter and Carlos and Frank Slootweg
(who was part of that Snit drama, by the way, despite the fact Frank tries
to distance himself from his idiocy every time I mention it), are doing
here.

All Snit saw ... was a pretty graph.
The graph was moving.
Hooray!

Just like a mouse sees a laser pointer moving...
o The mouse POUNCES on it.

Just like Mike did, when he saw the keyword "VPN".
o Snit is a keyword troll, and so is Mike Easter a keyword troll.

The moment they see a "moving graph", that's it.
o Their brain goes into cat-pouncing-on-laser mode.

It's like an alcoholic's response to being offered a drink.
o They can't resist being a keyword troll.

They think it's me confused, but all I did was ask this simple question:
Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?
A: Name just one.
  #38  
Old February 19th 19, 02:10 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:41:03 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

Why do you want to help a troll? You should killfile him, not offer
him solutions.


Troll.

Since this saga started with this very simple helpful tutoral...
o How to get up & running on a free public vpn service in minutes

What purposefully helpful tutorials have _you_ written, Ken Blake?
o Name just one.

Hint:
o zero.

troll. Idiot.
  #39  
Old February 19th 19, 02:12 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
arlen holder
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:18:59 -0500, Ken Hart wrote:

Google is your friend.

I copied and pasted your question into Google; it came back with "About
481,000 results (0.78 seconds)"

The seventh result down the page was "25 Best Free Web Proxies for Safer
and Anonymous Surfing | SpyAdvice
https://spyadvice.com/free-web-proxies/"
While I didn't check out the cite/site, it does mention "It also
supports Usenet... posting..."


Idiot.
Troll.
  #40  
Old February 19th 19, 02:12 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2019-02-18, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:44:11 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh
wrote:


.....


I'm well aware of that. It's the nature of language. I can't object to
that; it's a fact of life. But I can object to it's happening very
quickly. To my way of thinking, because of television and the
Internet, these days it happens too quickly, much more quickly than it


Too quickly now? I think Shakespeare introduced something like a few
thousand new words into English. That is "rapidly" In fact the late
Elizabethan theatre was rife with new useage.

used to. Too quickly, to me, means that it's very difficult for
everyone to keep up with it, and the result is that communication is
impeded.


Yup, that is what Shakespeare and Chaucer etc did, impede language.

  #41  
Old February 19th 19, 02:14 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:04:16 -0600, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

more chop chop.


Idiot.
Troll.
  #42  
Old February 19th 19, 02:18 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

What the hell are cites?

References.


Thanks, I was mistaking it for sites.


As far as I'm concerned, you are right, and the original post with the
word "cites" is wrong. "Cite" is a verb, not a noun. The noun is
"citation."

I'm sure I'm going to get arguments about this, telling me I'm an old
fuddy-duddy and I'm behind the times. So I'll repeat my first five
words in the paragraph above: "as far as I'm concerned."


English has the ability of making verbs into nouns.



I knew I would get an argument. Maybe more are coming.

You are certainly right. There are many, many examples of that. Some
of those have been around for a long time. Some of them started very
recently.

Making nouns out of verbs is only one example of the way English
changes. It also makes verbs out of nouns, and changes in many other
ways. Like all languages, English changes over the years. Today's
English isn't the same as Shakespeare's, and Shakespeare's wasn't the
same as Chaucer's. And Italian isn't the same as Latin.

I'm well aware of that. It's the nature of language. I can't object to
that; it's a fact of life. But I can object to it's happening very
quickly. To my way of thinking, because of television and the
Internet, these days it happens too quickly, much more quickly than it
used to. Too quickly, to me, means that it's very difficult for
everyone to keep up with it, and the result is that communication is
impeded.


where 'quickly' is 'in my lifetime', and nothing is impeded.

So wherever possible, I personally avoid those "nouns" made of verbs.
I say (and write) "clean installation, " not "clean install,"
"invitation" not "invite," "citation" not "cite," and many other
examples that don't spring to the mind at the moment.

I know. I'm an old fuddy-duddy and I'm behind the times. So be it.


if you insist.

There's an office complex near my home that has a sign in front of it:
"If you officed here, you'd be home now." Besides making up the verb
"office" from the noun "office," the sign makes no sense.


it makes perfect sense. it's a variant of the common sign, 'if you
lived here, you'd be home now':

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4097/4936701584_0fefe13994_b.jpg
  #43  
Old February 19th 19, 04:50 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 02/18/2019 8:33 PM, Ken Hart wrote:
On 2/18/19 8:12 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:18:59 -0500, Ken Hart wrote:

Google is your friend.

I copied and pasted your question into Google; it came back with "About
481,000 results (0.78 seconds)"

The seventh result down the page was "25 Best Free Web Proxies for Safer
and Anonymous Surfing | SpyAdvice
https://spyadvice.com/free-web-proxies/"
While I didn't check out the cite/site, it does mention "It also
supports Usenet... posting..."


Idiot.
Troll.

That's pretty rude!

You asked a question. I presented your question, in your exact words
(remember 'copied and pasted') to Google- which is why it exists. Google
presented a myriad of answers. Generally, the first page or so of
answers are the best: in this case, the seventh one exactly answered the
question you asked.

And you call me an "Idiot. Troll." I tried to help you, and that's the
thanks I get?

Rude is his middle name , he'll stab you in the back as soon as you
disagree with his stupidity. Ignore him or make fun of the idiot.

Rene

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Old February 19th 19, 11:26 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 19/02/2019 04.50, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 02/18/2019 8:33 PM, Ken Hart wrote:
On 2/18/19 8:12 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:18:59 -0500, Ken Hart wrote:

Google is your friend.

I copied and pasted your question into Google; it came back with "About
481,000 results (0.78 seconds)"

The seventh result down the page was "25 Best Free Web Proxies for
Safer
and Anonymous Surfing | SpyAdvice
https://spyadvice.com/free-web-proxies/"
While I didn't check out the cite/site, it does mention "It also
supports Usenet... posting..."

Idiot.
Troll.

That's pretty rude!

You asked a question. I presented your question, in your exact words
(remember 'copied and pasted') to Google- which is why it exists.
Google presented a myriad of answers. Generally, the first page or so
of answers are the best: in this case, the seventh one exactly
answered the question you asked.

And you call me an "Idiot. Troll." I tried to help you, and that's the
thanks I get?

Rude is his middle name , he'll stab you in the back as soon as you
disagree with his stupidity. Ignore him or make fun of the idiot.


He does that. One post he says you are an adult man, and the next that
you are an idiot.


I wonder how that site will do "usenet proxing", though. I don't
understand what they do:

«AnonyMouse is one of the best browser-based proxies available online.
You can access various sites by merely inserting the name in the address
bar. It offers both free and paid services.

....

The free version allows the users to browse and send emails anonymously.
It also supports Usenet (news) proxies that enable posting in
newsgroups with a hidden identity.»


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  #45  
Old February 19th 19, 12:00 PM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 19/02/2019 04.50, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 02/18/2019 8:33 PM, Ken Hart wrote:
On 2/18/19 8:12 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:18:59 -0500, Ken Hart wrote:

Google is your friend.

I copied and pasted your question into Google; it came back with "About
481,000 results (0.78 seconds)"

The seventh result down the page was "25 Best Free Web Proxies for
Safer
and Anonymous Surfing | SpyAdvice
https://spyadvice.com/free-web-proxies/"
While I didn't check out the cite/site, it does mention "It also
supports Usenet... posting..."

Idiot.
Troll.

That's pretty rude!

You asked a question. I presented your question, in your exact words
(remember 'copied and pasted') to Google- which is why it exists.
Google presented a myriad of answers. Generally, the first page or so
of answers are the best: in this case, the seventh one exactly
answered the question you asked.

And you call me an "Idiot. Troll." I tried to help you, and that's the
thanks I get?

Rude is his middle name , he'll stab you in the back as soon as you
disagree with his stupidity. Ignore him or make fun of the idiot.


He does that. One post he says you are an adult man, and the next that
you are an idiot.


Often within minutes of each other.

Oh, and Ken, welcome to the group of "left side DK potluck picnic table
****ting children (tm)".

We're generally a pretty chill bunch, mainly pointing out the myriad of
flaws in our good friend Arlen's "tutorials", for various reasons
(although most of us seemed to start out trying to guide him into more
technically sound approaches).



I wonder how that site will do "usenet proxing", though. I don't
understand what they do:

«AnonyMouse is one of the best browser-based proxies available online.
You can access various sites by merely inserting the name in the address
bar. It offers both free and paid services.

...

The free version allows the users to browse and send emails anonymously.
It also supports Usenet (news) proxies that enable posting in
newsgroups with a hidden identity.»


Given that it's browser-based, I imagine they've got a NNTP server on
the backend handling things once that HTTP submit is triggered. Sent
something through it to see what they do; but "in order to increase
privacy, we're gonna delay up to 12 hours". *sigh*

So you hit them, send your article to them, they inject it to the
newsgroup. Always from the same IP (i.e. theirs). So, same
"downside(tm)" as say leafnode running over on linode / digital ocean /
aws / etc.

Given that you only have the options of "group" / "subject" / "body", it
would be a complete cluster**** trying to actually hold a conversation.
Unless their "body(tm)" form will also properly parse the remainder of
the header fields necessary to keep a proper conversation going.

Attempted message follows, in case anyone cares (not likely, but I need
a note to remind myself to check):
ng - eternal-september.test
sub - What is this nonsense
msg - Guess I grabbed an old config ...

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