The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by I'm not
Phil I'm a sock, and I thusly replied: 

Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip vomited 
ATTN:Kettler,Cujo,BDKook,Hatchett,Starshine,ellis,phoenix,Dyna,etc. onto
my velour:

The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Steve
Leyland, and I thusly replied:

Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip wrote:
: The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by
: Peter J Ross, and I thusly replied:
:
:: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 at 13:07 GMT, Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
:: wrote in alt.alcatroll:
::
::: Path: gadfly.meow.org!kermit!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!
::: nntpserver.com!news.alt.net!usenet
::                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
:::: ALCATROLL HACE MUCH GRATENESS!!!!2!!!!
:::
::: Why is this group not on my ISP's server?
::
:: It's on all the servers in your path, especially the one you appear
:: to be using. 
:
: I hate reading off Altopia - it's fucking shit. The worst retention
: ever. 

you should consider subscribing to ambyte, vicar.
http://www.ambyte.co.uk
it has similar privacy policies, but far superior retention.

Hmm. Thanks for the heads up. They don't seem to mention restrictions on
cascading either... not that that's ever stopped me :-)  I'll be looking
into this...

:: But if you're in the UK, your ISP is probably crap, which would
:: explain it. 
:
: Indeed. ISPs in the UK are generally pants.

agreed.
pants with great big flares and a damp patch in teh groin.

Eww. What a nasty mental image.

I heartily recommend Ambyte and so say all of my socks, especially 
"Harry Bloomfield".

I shall be reaching for my credit card.

BTW, I thought Harry was a sock master? If you're the master of a sock
master, what does that make Chrith? 

-- 
The Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Smiting Sinful Usenet Users Since 1874

"A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his
tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord." 
- Deuteronomy 23:2