Re: (iso Pythonic code) -- if Usenet allowed a small image embedded in a msg, ...

On 2024-02-26, Colin Macleod <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I want as many painfully difficult hoops to jump through as
>> necessary to discourage the descendents of marauding Eternal
>> September hoards from participating - yea, to the point of
>> rewinding USENET space to its pre- Eternal September
>> glory.... ;-)
> 
> I feel your pain, but...
>
> The current situation seems to have driven away most of the
> well- intentioned users, while doing little to discourage
> the spammers and cranks :-(

Yeah, I know. I guess I follow just a few lower-traffic newsgroups
anymore, and therein can it seem like maybe just <holds thumb and
index finger of right hand a millimeter apart> "this far" from the
pearly posting gates.

But that - not to mention intelligent, civil society - has long
been an impossible dream for so predominantly moronic a species.

-- 
oldernow
xyz001 at nym.hush.com