Hi Andy,
Happy New Year!
Just respond to the value of the body of the message - not the headers.
I read everything on this newsgroup, Andy, that you write. Everything.
Also everything from Arno. Frank. Gelato. Bev. Steve. Jeff. Zaidy. etc. on
the Android newsgroup, but far fewer on the Apple newsgroups, although I
read everything from badgolferman & Steve, who had been posted to Usenet
for decades just as I have been. I even read what Jolly Roger posts,
believe it or not, as he's the quintessential Apple poster of all time.
Probably 80% of the Android posters (like micky) know nothing and worse,
can't learn anything, while it's far worse than that for the Apple trolls.
But I have each poster well under control with a system that scores them.
I long ago added that scoring system which marks morons as already read.
But it continually adds points to your posts & to those of others above.
Not so much the rest.
It ignores posts from Alan & Joerg but also subtracts points from others.
It's constantly keeping track of the intelligence level of each poster.
You're intelligent but most people on this newsgroup are low-IQ morons.
For example, when you posted that Marcel wrote NetGuard, I hit the macro to
bump your score, just as it did when you kept abreast of Marcel's
successful OAUTH2 additions to FairEmail; but it bumps you down every time
you call me a spammer (which you sometimes do, much to your discredit).
While you provide valuable insight, I've likely provided many times more
than all the rest of you combined, Andy, to this newsgroup, in the form of
knowledge about how Android actually works & in the form of tutorials.
But I still learn a lot of from the likes of those few listed above, Andy.
So there's value for me in this newsgroup, even as I deplore the morons.
Around every new year the script triggers, Andy, for privacy reasons, where
I may know privacy probably better than all the rest of you do, combined.
Periodically, the nyms change, as do the time zones, the posting hosts, the
nntp servers, the newsreader, etc., all of which is done for privacy Andy.
You are smart enough to know that keeping the same headers for two decades
or more isn't the best thing if you want to retain some privacy on the net.
Most people are completely clueless about the basics of privacy, Andy.
Maybe not you. But almost everyone else on this newsgroup has sacrificed
their privacy (which is fine) but then they denigrate others that don't.
I don't hide who I am in the gift of the value of the body of the article.
It's only in the meaningless wrapping paper surrounding that body, Andy.
With that in mind, if it takes anyone more than a few seconds to figure out
that it's the same detailed annotated images, the same phone even, the same
location, the same exacting super-detailed always precise information,
etc., they that just means they are low-IQ utter morons, as I never change.
I'm not hiding from you. I don't even try.
I'm hiding the headers from robotic data-collection engines.
It's all done with a process that uses telnet and scripts written years
ago, thanks mostly to Marek (and a few others), mostly on the Linux ngs.
It randomizes the nntp news server (although I can keep it if I like); and
it randomizes the VPN IP address, time posted & other meaningless headers.
The hardest part was the algorithm for the randomized dictionary swaps.
Even Vanguard & Frank helped write the scripts, although neither of them
knew that's what they were doing, I'm sure, as the scripts are complex.
Then it was ported to Windows and that's where the automation proceeds.
Telnet does most of the work. The headers are dictionary lookups.
It used to be that the headers randomly copied other nyms from other
newsgroups and other headers from different posts, so as to mix things up,
but then it accidentally picked up people here so I cut that part out.
Now it just picks everything from a set of a half-dozen dictionaries.
I don't even know what nym is being used as it doesn't matter the nym.
Often I don't even know what person I'm responding to as what matters is
not their pedigree but what they said in the post that contained value.
My editor is "Gvim" and the user agent is telnet if that matters to you.
Only fools care more about the wrapping paper than the gift being provided.
In short...
Anyone who says "I figured you out" is proclaiming that they're a moron,
especially if it takes more than one post for them to figure that out.
Let me know what the nym is for this post as I don't even see it, so I
won't know what it is until *after* this post is reflected in my feed.
