On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 03:40:32, John Doe <always.look@message.header>
wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
>Firstly... This sort of post should be labeled "OT..."

You're right, I probably should have, though arguably it's about posters
in the four 'groups chosen. (I didn't include free.spam.)
>
>Also, it shouldn't have been re-crossposted under a new subject line.

(Not sure what you mean by re-crossposted.) I wanted to follow-up (agree
with, as it happens) a post that was defending either VanguardLH or
Mayayana (I forget which). Thus it was a followup. I changed the subject
line as my post no longer had anything to do with the original subject -
in the RFC-approved manner ["<new subject> (was: Re: <old subject>"],
which some clients (not mine, and clearly not yours) recognise and strip
the "was" part on further responses.
>
>Also, attacking other posters in the subject line is a troll.

I don't think there was any attack, certainly not in the subject line.
OK, I described the _foibles_ of the three main leading lights of these
'groups, but in I hope an affectionate manner - and criticised myself
too.
>
>This is the same troll that used weird formatting when posting
>to the blind users' group...
>
This from the poster who reposted my entire post - _including the
header_ (as received by him) - but _after_ a valid .sig separator line
(-:
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Get off my turf!" screamed Pooh, as he shot at Paddington.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote

| >| > Jeeez. What a long rant. I can't figure out what you're on about. :)
| >|
| >| Still trying to squelch the participants, I see, with berating retorts.
| >|
| >
| >That was a joke, V. Take a breath.
| >
| >
| Yes, I saw it as one, and it was I who posted the original (-:

Maybe we should all just accept our anachronistic,
aging existence and stick to arguing about Trump and
Johnson. That way, any opinion is valid. And who cares
about Windows anymore, anyway? Most of the talk since
Win10 is about what the latest forced update messed up. :)

Mayayana <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

> "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote
>
>|> Jeeez. What a long rant. I can't figure out what you're on about. :)
>|
>| Still trying to squelch the participants, I see, with berating retorts.
>|
>
> That was a joke, V. Take a breath.

I see smilies after a retort the same as when folks say "I was just
saying", or "I just said", as though that alters what they said. Sorry.

But of course the difference is I'm posting
to a group of SIGHTED people...

--
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> On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 03:40:32, John Doe <always.look@message.header>
> wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
>>Firstly... This sort of post should be labeled "OT..."
>
> You're right, I probably should have, though arguably it's about posters
> in the four 'groups chosen. (I didn't include free.spam.)
>>
>>Also, it shouldn't have been re-crossposted under a new subject line.
>
> (Not sure what you mean by re-crossposted.) I wanted to follow-up (agree
> with, as it happens) a post that was defending either VanguardLH or
> Mayayana (I forget which). Thus it was a followup. I changed the subject
> line as my post no longer had anything to do with the original subject -
> in the RFC-approved manner ["<new subject> (was: Re: <old subject>"],
> which some clients (not mine, and clearly not yours) recognise and strip
> the "was" part on further responses.
>>
>>Also, attacking other posters in the subject line is a troll.
>
> I don't think there was any attack, certainly not in the subject line.
> OK, I described the _foibles_ of the three main leading lights of these
> 'groups, but in I hope an affectionate manner - and criticised myself
> too.
>>
>>This is the same troll that used weird formatting when posting
>>to the blind users' group...
>>
> This from the poster who reposted my entire post - _including the
> header_ (as received by him) - but _after_ a valid .sig separator line
> (-:
> --
> J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
>
> "Get off my turf!" screamed Pooh, as he shot at Paddington.
>
>

John Doe <always.look@message.header> wrote in news:ses9fs$vd7$1@dont-
email.me:

> But of course the difference is I'm posting
> to a group of SIGHTED people...
>

Top-posting, none-the-less, so...