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"Janie Burress" <pjburress@windstream.net>wrote:
>All of the programs are just letters and numbers. I used to be able to
>download the programs. What am I doing wrong?
>
I looked at the FAQ posted here just a while back but I have upgraded
since and it is gone from my list. Maybe the post is on your list?
"Usenet posting tools" is the name, I belef.
Here is some answer from my home group FAQ.
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22.POSTS THAT MAKE NO SENSE
Q: What are all these meaningless combinations of letters I see in the
articles?
A: There are two possible answers for this question. The first one is,
if the first post in the series has an attachment (i.e. virt vix r01
1/5), but the following posts are nothing more than a bunch of
meaningless letters and symbols (i.e. virt vix r01 2/5, 3/5,4/5,5/5).
That is what a multi - part binary file looks like when it is loaded
onto a newsgroup. Chances are you are using Outlook Express or a
similar browser, if this is the case, you will have to use the message
combine and decode function to put the parts back together again. (A
better solution is to get "AGENT"- [included in the NSK] which will
recombine the messages automatically.) The second possible answer is
if you see a grouping of meaningless letters in an otherwise normal
message that is a form of Internet Shorthand. Some common ones are:
TIA - thanks in advance
Plz - please
Thx - thanks
<g> - grin
<BG> - big grin
<BFG> - big fucking grin
RTFM - Read The Fucking Manual
FOAD - Fuck Off And Die
ESAD - Eat Shit And Die
WTMKF - Welcome To My Kill File
PLONK! - Person Leaving Our Newsgroup: Killfiled (you have been
killfiled
PITA - Pain In The Ass
KUTGW - Keep Up The Good Work
BTW - By The Way
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
LMAO - Laughing My Ass Off
ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
[Snip] - portions of the original message to which I'm replying, and
which are unrelated to my reply, have been deleted.
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