Re: missing posts?

On May 15, 3:13 pm, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 15, 1:33 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
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> > On May 15, 7:58 am, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On May 15, 10:40 am, gazzag <gar..._at_jamms.org> wrote:
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> > > > On 15 May, 15:33, gazzag <gar..._at_jamms.org> wrote:
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> > > > > On 15 May, 15:04, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > Maybe you should pick a less common name.
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> > > > > > ?? What on Earth are you talking about? BEN? I'm sorry that my name
> > > > > > is common, it didn't pick it to begin with.
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> > > > > What? You think my name is really gazzag?
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> > > good point, but I shouldn't have to change my name to something unique
> > > to keep a post where I posted it.
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> > > > > Anyway, to answer your original question, no, this newsgroup is not
> > > > > moderated. I suspect PEBCAK.
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> > > While it is possible that I posted it there, I highly doubt it. I
> > > never go there and usually just click on the group from 'my groups' in
> > > google.
> > > My account of what happened is that I made two posts yesterday to
> > > c.d.o.s and today both of them are in c.d.o.m. As a matter of fact I'm
> > > about 99.9998% sure I posted in here, as I checked it several times
> > > yesterday and never went to cdom to do so.
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> > > > > HTH
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> > > > > -g
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> > > > I meant to add, isn't this your post?
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> > > >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.databases.oracle.misc/browse_th...
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> > > > I believe that's where I told you to look in the first place.
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> > > yes, it is and I found it over there after you said to check there,
> > > BUT I didn't post it there. Why my name being set to Ben should have
> > > any bearing on it being there is beyond me.
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> > Your name doesn't have anything to do with it, but having a unique
> > name helps in _finding_ your own posts.
>
> > One of the options when you are viewing your messages is "show
> > original". This displays the post as it looks to all the computers
> > involved without any additional formatting (except with the email
> > obscured to somewhat inhibit harvesting email by spambots). Your
> > header looks like this:
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> > Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!
> > 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
> > From: Ben <balve..._at_gmail.com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
> > Subject: how is sql id set
> > Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
> > Organization:http://groups.google.com
> > Lines: 5
> > Message-ID: <ff6c6d2b-2303-4473-a35c-
> > fea4e0737..._at_25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>
> > NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.62.121.66
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > X-Trace: posting.google.com 1210794603 23789 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2008
> > 19:50:03 GMT)
> > X-Complaints-To: groups-ab..._at_google.com
> > NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 19:50:03 +0000 (UTC)
> > Complaints-To: groups-ab..._at_google.com
> > Injection-Info: 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com; posting-
> > host=208.62.121.66;
> > posting-account=-9uN5AoAAAAAjTt52tgUM4-DV07HwXgP
> > User-Agent: G2/1.0
> > X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 POISA01
> > X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
> > SV1;
> > InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
> > -------------------------
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> > So we can see that you posted to cdom whether you remember it or not.
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> > Another option is "view profile." This shows all the posts you've
> > made. Note that viewing this from your post in this thread gives a
> > yahoo address with cdos posts, while from the cdom thread it shows
> > your gmail address with cdom and brewing posts. They both show your
> > same picture.
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> > It seems google groups is smart enough to differentiate your different
> > profiles. I've also run into this, as, for example, when I'm posting
> > from cdos it shows me as Joel Garry, but from other places it shows me
> > as jgar the jorrible (a very old joke from text based gaming on PDP
> > systems that only allowed very short logins). Google changes how this
> > works without notice, sometimes slipstreaming in breaks or fixes, with
> > sometimes hilarious results as this propagates to who you are for blog
> > postings. Since your picture is there, you must have figured out how
> > to modify your profile (unless it propagated from an older yahoo
> > account, which I doubt as my own experience is yahoo periodically
> > forgets about me, don't get me started on flickr screwups).
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> > This is called SSO (Single Sign On), which of course becomes a silly
> > misnomer when applied to multiple users over multiple functional
> > domains, as with the Oracle OTN and metalink. Google uses your email
> > to log in, and lets you have multiple emails with multiple profiles,
> > and change those (it didn't used to, which is why I kept my bogus
> > email when the @home domain moved to Japan. Very effective anti-spam
> > filter. Nowadays it makes less difference, though watch out if you
> > let one go and someone else grabs it.) Metalink used to be AFU with
> > changing email addresses, don't know if they've fixed it.
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> > Anyways, searching on my name allows me keep up with direct responses
> > to my posts. Searching on author ben gives millions of posts, some of
> > which you may not like. Some people give more credence to posts from
> > real identities.
>
> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > Ewwww, bacteria!http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/05/14/bill-gates-d...Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> Ok, so I'm only 29. I'm hoping my memory isn't that bad already. You
> replied to the post, do you remember if you replied within cdos or
> cdom? not that it really matters, but just wondered.
>
> I typically search on my email address to find posts that I've made.
> There are two that seem to get used though, which I attribute to the
> single sign on, stuff you mention above.

You can also find your posts by going to view your profile and there it has a history of the posts you have made.

HTH,
Pete's Received on Fri May 16 2008 - 07:51:06 CDT