In article <SNidndt8Tp93ae_VnZ2dnUVZ_szinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Jerry Sauk" <jerrysauk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "krw"
>
> > You certainly are one dumb kook. I doubted the others during the
> > Sauk is dead thread. No longer! You're off the dumb end of the
> > scale, even for the Usenet! Yikes!
> >
> > <lots more insane drool snipped>
> >
> > --
> > Keith
>
> And it's called "Usenet" not "the Usenet"! SHEEEEESH. Go back to
> misc-consumer's.
I've been on the Usenet since 1984 (while at Intel), with a consumer
account since 1988 (when consumers were allowed on the Usenet--my ISP,
****tal Communications, was one of the first to offer consumer accounts).
As with the ARPANET, which I started using in 1973, various articles
("the," "a," etc.) are used, depending on context, the speaker's
background, regional variations, etc.
Some say they're on Usenet, some say they're on _the_ Usenet. Matches
_the_ Net, so it's eminently logical.
Similar to pronunciation differences, such as "Yoooze-net" vs.
"Yoose-net." Both are used.
You ought to work on your atrocious spelling, your gratuitous use of
"apostrophe's" in the oddest "place's," and worry less about telling
some person on the Usenet that he's wrong.
--Tim May
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