Moriarty wrote:

>I seem to be in a minority in that I simply don't get these. A good
>friend IRL with overlapping tastes raved about them. Here on rasfw
>various regulars such as yourself and Tony Nance have done the same.
>
>So I read this one and... meh. Yawn. Not for me.

Oh, certainly. There are many books that people here like that I don't.
For a long time I avoided this series because of the initial impression
that I got from people discussing it. It wasn't a correct impression.

Brian

"Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> writes:
>Moriarty wrote:
>
>>I seem to be in a minority in that I simply don't get these. A good
>>friend IRL with overlapping tastes raved about them. Here on rasfw
>>various regulars such as yourself and Tony Nance have done the same.
>>
>>So I read this one and... meh. Yawn. Not for me.
>
>Oh, certainly. There are many books that people here like that I don't.
>For a long time I avoided this series because of the initial impression
>that I got from people discussing it. It wasn't a correct impression.

Heh. I avoided Jordan for years because the LotR crowd here
routinely panned (even hated) it.

When I did pick up _The Eye of the World_, I enjoyed it and
the rest of them immensely (even the Sanderson volumes, albeit
they didn't match the 'voice' of some of the characters, like
Matrim[*]).

I've never been able to finish LotR.

[*] Must have been something about the character, because the
Amazon series really screwed up Mat's character in the
first episode.

On Monday, November 13, 2023 at 5:56:10 PM UTC-5, Moriarty wrote:
> On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 2:29:32 PM UTC+11, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > "All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, 1)" by Martha Wells
> > https://www.amazon.com/All-Systems-Red-Murderbot-Diaries/dp/1250214718/
> I seem to be in a minority in that I simply don't get these. A good friend IRL with overlapping tastes raved about them. Here on rasfw various regulars such as yourself and Tony Nance have done the same.
>
> So I read this one and... meh. Yawn. Not for me.
>

Yeah - in my head, you and I have pretty similar tastes, so when
there are differences they tend to jar a little more.

Tony

On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10:06:23 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> "Default User" <defaul...@yahoo.com> writes:
> >Moriarty wrote:
> >
> >>I seem to be in a minority in that I simply don't get these. A good
> >>friend IRL with overlapping tastes raved about them. Here on rasfw
> >>various regulars such as yourself and Tony Nance have done the same.
> >>
> >>So I read this one and... meh. Yawn. Not for me.
> >
> >Oh, certainly. There are many books that people here like that I don't.
> >For a long time I avoided this series because of the initial impression
> >that I got from people discussing it. It wasn't a correct impression.
>
> Heh. I avoided Jordan for years because the LotR crowd here
> routinely panned (even hated) it.
>
> When I did pick up _The Eye of the World_, I enjoyed it and
> the rest of them immensely (even the Sanderson volumes, albeit
> they didn't match the 'voice' of some of the characters, like
> Matrim[*]).

For me, I avoided Vlad Taltos and Miles Vorkosigan for
a long (long!) time because the comments here on rasfw
were so over the top, and often focused on things I didn't
care for, or about. It took a long (long!) time to get
calibrated for a fuller, more accurate picture.

And I'm really glad I ended up reading both.
- Tony

On Monday, November 13, 2023 at 10:54:42 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Default User <defaul...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >When I was still a productive member of society, I used GG in the
> >latter years. At one time I had a contact in company network
> >maintenance that had drilled a hole through the firewall for NIN.
> >However, when I left usenet for a time I gave up my account there. When
> >I came back I didn't feel like seeing if the process would even work.
>
> NIN? The metal band?
>

Heh - I saw them perform one year ago yesterday. They were great.
But (as I suspect you know) I think he's referring to news.individual.net.

Tony

On Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 4:52:57 PM UTC-5, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 12:16:39 PM UTC-5, Paul S Person wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:01:34 -0800 (PST), "pete...@gmail.com"
> > <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On Friday, November 10, 2023 at 10:56:41?PM UTC-5, BCFD36 wrote:
> > >> On 11/8/23 09:47, Robert Woodward wrote:
> > >> > I have discovered that the 'news.individual.net' newserver is not
> > >> > carrying posts that were posted from Google Groups (at least in the
> > >> > r.a.sf.* hierarchy). I guess that is one way to stop all the spam
> > >> > originating from Google Groups. But that means that I don't see posts
> > >> > from William Hyde, Andrew McDowell, and others (at least until I check
> > >> > those newsgroups on the Supernews newserver).
> > >> >
> > >> Which field in the header says "I originated in google groups"? Not that
> > >> I can set a filter on it with Thunderbird, but it would be nice to know
> > >> for sure. I am thinking it may be in the MessageId field.
> > >
> > >I use GG.
> > >
> > >I think if you want to block me, it's the Newsreader identifier header..
> > This (for some reason) was a /lot/ harder than it should have been,
> > but the headers I see that appear to be possibles are:
> >
> > >Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.89.71.141; posting-account=BUItcQoAAACgV97n05UTyfLcl1Rd4W33
> > >NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.89.71.141
> > >References: <robertaw-53F13F...@news.individual.net> <uimu1k$34dqp$1....@dont-email.me>
> > >User-Agent: G2/1.0
> >
> > I saw no "Newsreader identifier header", but "Injection-Info" appears
> > to be quite clear. "User-Agent" rather less so.
> >
> > I kept the two headers in between to avoid confusion by implying that
> > the two of interest were together.
> >
> > Interestingly, the ">" on the first line (and so probably the others)
> > keeps the info on that line, even when wrapping is on. Go figure.
> I was thinking of the User-Agent: header, but couldn't remember the
> correct name. GG removed the ability to see the original text of a message
> some years ago.
>
> GG isn't a great interface, but I explained my use of it upthread.
>

I too use GG, partly for your reasons, with a side dish of "I tend
to post from one of three machines - 2 macOS, and 1 Windows",
and I'm just lazy enough to not want to set up all three for the
purpose of posting here.

Tony

Tony Nance wrote:

>I too use GG, partly for your reasons, with a side dish of "I tend
>to post from one of three machines - 2 macOS, and 1 Windows",
>and I'm just lazy enough to not want to set up all three for the
>purpose of posting here.

Using real newsreaders on multiple machines has synchrononization
problems too. If they were all the same OS, you might be able to
install the reader on a flash drive and carry it between machines. I
looked into that with XanaNews and I think I could have. But ultimately
I didn't.

Brian