Frankly, I don't care if folks are pro or anti Compaq, Dell, HP, Sony, etc.
To each, his own. I am not that strongly attached to any type of machine to
be that passionate one way or another. Personally, I have had nothing but
good experiences with the computers I (or my family have had) over the
years. Problems have been rare and the few calls made to sales, tech support
or customer service have been handled in a professional and timely manner. I
have owned computers of some sort since 1978 (Apple, Packard Bell. HP,
Compaq, Dell, Alienware). I guess I have just been lucky for the past 25
years. It would be great if newsgroups of this type were used solely for the
purpose of information and help, however, I understand that folks want to
vent about their bad experiences and that's their right. It is also the
right of those to defend their positions on the positive side.It just
interests me that you have complained about Deep's vulgarities and yet you
have reposted these vulgarities in at least 3 separate posts. I suppose I
"pick on" your posts because I usually find yours in the middle of some
"entertaining" back and forths. I would classify Newsgroups as a source of
two things, information and entertainment. If I am not interested in a
particular topic as described in the header, then I would not necessarily
read through the posts, however, if I see a bunch of responses with certain
sender's names, I will read those because occasionally, they are real
entertaining. Deeps' (or others) vulgarities were probably in response to
some humdrum question in a topic that is of little interest, thus I can not
remember seeing any of them except when reposted by you. It would be great
if all folks would use language that you or I or anyone would deem
"appropriate", but in certain locales it just isn't going to happen. With
the wide variety of unknown personalities on newsgroups, you can't expect
them to acquiesce to what you want, thus you should assume that, at the very
least, newsgroups should be rated 'R'. With that being the case, you or your
grandchildren, shouldn't be surprised if vulgarities show up. I have an 8
year old granddaughter. I would never allow her to use the Internet
unsupervised because you never know what can be accidentally found and if I
were using the Internet with her, I would certainly not be reading
newsgroups with her, but, to each his/her own. At least I am fortunate that
she is not nearly as Internet savvy as yours because she doesn't even know
what a newsgroup is, much less have the ability to open one up and either
download new messages or read existing messages.

"Irene" wrote in message
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I find it difficult to understand why you object to my posts, quoting the
vulgarities and insults, but do not post any comments objecting to the
originators of those posts.

Could it be because you and those few folks are strongly pro Compaq and I
am
not? No, you wouldn't be that hypocritical, would you?


"Bob" wrote in message
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I know how newsreaders work and I know that you find vulgarities
offensive,
yet you don't seem to respect others who may find the language offensive
because you choose to repost it without editing the vulgarities. I can
only
assume from your previous post a while ago that you grandchildren use
your
computer unsupervised since I would suspect you would not allow them to
read
newsgroups that contain vulgarities, yet somehow (according to you),
they
managed to do so.

Practice what you preach. Since you find the language offensive, don't
continue to repost it. Others find it offensive as well.

"Irene" wrote in message
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And you don't know what you are talking about.
Neither what I allow, or how my newsreader works.


"Bob" wrote in message
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Remember Irene, you allow your grandchildren to peruse these
newsgroups
unsupervised as you stated in a previous post. You are again
subjecting
them
to foul languange that YOU choose to repost.

"Irene" wrote in message
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