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B L Ochman has an interesting post claiming that you don't need to ask six to 20 questions as scores of blog posts claim , but you need to ask just two: 1) Do they walk the walk? "If your key agency people are not participating as thought leaders in the space, should they be advising you? They need street cred themselves." Ed Nicholson, Director ...

Today, the Mac GUI Vault collection is excited to have expanded its Usenet archive to include a quarter of a million Usenet posts from the 80's and early 90's on the Apple II and Macintosh.

Earlier this year, we noted that the Dutch Usenet community FTD was suing BREIN, the local "anti-piracy" group, for suggesting that FTD was a criminal operation.

Google Apps has a new app, Google Groups, the company's online message board and mailing list service.

Re: Scott McLemee: A Wildly Weak and Untrained Mind "When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It!" -- Ben Yagoda 4:24 PM ed said... It gets even funnier.

From : Armenian News Network Date : Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:00:03 -0800 Dear Groong readers, We bring to your attention the following letters we've received.

Entry from December 01, 2009 Nontroversy A "nontroversy" is a non-controversy or nonissue.

Connections are a ' or at least were a ' a hot button issue for the newsgroup community.

Darknets, Freenet, or whatever it is called this round is a neat tool. It is not very user-friendly, though.

I ran across a reference to an open source/open hardware logic analyzer at comp.arch.fpga . . So it got me thinking about open source test equipment.

LottaNZB aims to simplify and automate the download of binary news from Usenet You can tell LottaNZB what to download using NZB files, which are created by many Usenet search engines.

Easynews , the world's original web-based Usenet site, announced their first annual Black Friday special, offering half price plan upgrades for all current and new subscribers.

This Black Friday, UseNetServer is offering new subscribers its finest Usenet access with UNS High-Speed Plus for only $5.00 for the first month of subscription.

From : Armenian News Network Date : Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:19:09 PST Dear Groong readers, We bring to your attention the following letters we've received.

Posts: 275 At 11/20/2009 01:31 PM -0800, Kevin van Haaren wrote: >My guess would be that you now interact with the outside world a lot >more. That's the issue a lot of times.

Entry from November 16, 2009 Demopublican A "Demopublican" is someone who has traits of both political parties.

One of the great examples of practical application of both special and general relativity is in the Global Positioning System .

A disagreement broke out this week in a Second Life educators' discussion group over the word "meatspace". If you read authors such as Charles Stross, you already know the word and may use it regularly.

Entry from November 15, 2009 Republicrat A "Republicrat" is someone who has traits of both political parties.

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