OT Ping Fran

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Hi Fran is it you being impish over an old car in another ng? Somewhat
different address but I noticed some similarity in content.

Yes, that's me. I've discovered a couple of people lurking in there who
I hadn't spotted during the last couple of weeks while I've been trying
to work out whether the locals were friendly. Will they be gentle with
an ignoramus, do you think, or will I get bombarded with technical
advice that I haven't a hope of understanding?
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Quoted message said:

Hi Fran is it you being impish over an old car in another ng? Somewhat
different address but I noticed some similarity in content.

Yes, that's me. I've discovered a couple of people lurking in there who
I hadn't spotted during the last couple of weeks while I've been trying
to work out whether the locals were friendly. Will they be gentle with
an ignoramus, do you think, or will I get bombarded with technical
advice that I haven't a hope of understanding?

That and this ng are the only 2 ngs I have taken continuously since I
discovered the joys of Usenet 10 years ago. I am afraid you will have to
take pot luck with the locals. The expertise is there (with some at any
rate) but politeness and expertise are sadly often mutually exclusive.
However it is usually bloody minded dogmatism that usually sets one off
against another.

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Roger Chapman

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Hi Fran is it you being impish over an old car in another ng? Somewhat
different address but I noticed some similarity in content.

Yes, that's me. I've discovered a couple of people lurking in there who
I hadn't spotted during the last couple of weeks while I've been trying
to work out whether the locals were friendly. Will they be gentle with
an ignoramus, do you think, or will I get bombarded with technical
advice that I haven't a hope of understanding?

That and this ng are the only 2 ngs I have taken continuously since I
discovered the joys of Usenet 10 years ago. I am afraid you will have to
take pot luck with the locals. The expertise is there (with some at any
rate) but politeness and expertise are sadly often mutually exclusive.
However it is usually bloody minded dogmatism that usually sets one off
against another.

Oh well, it's Usenet. What's the worst they can do? And there are a
couple of familiar faces coming out of the woodwork now that they've got
a serious question or two to answer.
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To reply see 'from' in headers; lose the domain, and insert dots and @
where common sense dictates.