Re: How do I use GNAT.Directory_Operations.Iteration?

[Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

> > I don't know about anyone else, but... if I asked a group of people
> > for advice on, say, fishing, and then covered my ears if the person
> > who responded came from a country I had a beef with or belonged to a
> > political party I don't like---I'd think that would be incredibly rude
> > behavior. This strikes me as similar.

It's not similar. I didn't filter on the group after I posted to it, I have
been filtering on google groups for a long time to eliminate spam. Your
analogy isn't. I figure anybody intelligent enough to participate in usenet
is intelligent enough to post through a news server or m2n gateway and use a
news client and that's conventional wisdom.

> Asking a group for advice, and then shutting out a certain subset of that
> group who may provide good advice, seems like poor etiquette, unfriendly,
> something like that, I dunno...

That's right, you don't know. It's standard practice to eliminate certain
news servers because of spam and people who think usenet is google groups
and use it as their playground. I realize there are two or three legitimate
posters on google groups and I would like to see what they have to say but
the spam and millions of noise level posts make that not worth it in the
long run. What gives you the right to tell me what I have to read?

> > Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the OP won't see this because I'm
> > in the group of people he's killfiled.  Maybe this isn't as big a deal
> > as I'm making out of it, but it's really rubbing me the wrong way.

You're going to be rubbed a lot more that way if you stay on usenet because
many people are killfiling google (and other) usenet gateway posts.

> This is not a Google Group, it is Usenet comp.lang.ada; Google Groups is
> only one of a large number of Usenet clients allowing access to it.  I
> think the OP simply doesn't know that (and therefore is an uneducated
> netizen).  

Now Ludovic, what ever gave you that idea? I'm posting through Mix and I use
a news client and I never go anywhere near google or google groups. I think
I understand very well what usenet is and is not. ;)

> But his attitude might say something about the signal to noise ratio in
> other Google Groups :) 

It's not an attitude, it's simply a sensible approach to spam and noise
reduction in usenet.

And to the whiner who's post you copied, I have every right to choose what
forums to read, what newspapers to read, etc. If you find that offensive
you're on your own.