Re: Responses to Postings

tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:49:23 +1000

TB wrote in message <353c4636.113523164@147.132.99.56>...
>In our last episode <353B1E38.69E216BE@klever.net.au> on Mon, 20 Apr 1998
>20:06:50 +1000, Eben Levy told aus.rail:
>
>>tezza wrote:
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><cut>
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>>> What a wanker.
>>
>>Why is it, that you have to alsways insult people? there is no need for
it.

Then why do you do it. I made a joking response and you insulted me.

>I am not just having a go at you tezza, I am agains't this kind of abuse in
this
>>group.

>Exactly, me too.

Easy then, stop it.

>It gets extremely tiresome when all you get back is a
>childish one-line comment like "What a wanker" or "You're an idiot".

Unlike of course your witty "You would know, after the recent performance".

>What
>is the average age of people in the group? 4? I thought the Australian
>rail industry was a professional and competitive industry fighting
>increasing competition.

Then stop whinging at everyone. There were a few light-hearted responses
and then you stormtroop in with insults, causing more unneccesary posts.

>The whole point of this newsgroup is to be constructive and to discuss RAIL
>topics for the benefit of everyone. A number of people have said that they
>wont be returning to this group because of the infantile actions of some.
>I'm not going to respond to any more posts in this thread or similar ones.
>It isn't worth the energy to.

Good. I also won't be responding to any posts generated by this response of
mine.

>On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:53:06 +1000, tezza told aus.rail:
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><re: costs of downloading data and being charged to>

>> They should change ISP. I can't believe anyone's still silly enough to
pay
>> those ripoff merchants

>Everyone pays, Internet access is never free. Internet traffic costs. If
>you aren't 'restricted' by the amount you can download or charged
>specifically for it, you are covered by a blanket charge to all users,
>commonly known as a "monthly fee". If the ISP is downloading more data
>from their provider, they will be charged more, and hence will increase the
>"monthly fee" charged to their customers, or find another way of cutting
>costs.

Monthly fees are dropping, only the rip-offs still charge for downloads.