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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <127ed27f-520a-4c7f-a6d8-32c5c8d4309a@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport,uk.rec.driving Subject: Re: To Those who Believe that "The Law is The Law" Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:21:15 -0700 (PDT) References: <2675ea80-9d20-4826-97f5-6de29b851e46@c9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>    <1j2hxb5.1aq9mxj1yt5bqmN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>  Lines: 35 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246994475 21502 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2009 19:21:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2929 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:715640

On Jul 7, 6:41=A0pm, John Wright  wrote: > Steve Firth wrote: > > John Wright  wrote: > > >>> Well bandwidth leeching is hardly a noble act that deserves encourage= ment > >>> is it? > >> Que? > > > Nuxx Bar provided a link to a file hosted on someone elses account. Tha= t > > means the person who owned that account would be getting the > > bills/nagging letters about exceeding bandwidth limitations. > > Well surely if someone puts a picture on the web they intend anyone to > look at it.

Especially when they link to it from another thread in the same newsgroup. Still, no surprise that Firth decided to complain about it...he seems to dislike (and complain about) *everyone*. Some occurrence in his life has made him very bitter towards people in general.

> Anyway it came down rather too fast for most billing > procedures to have kicked in. Perhaps bandwidth limitations...

It's just bloody-mindedness for the sheer hell of it. You get a lot of that on URC. There's no logic to it other than that. Just be thankful you got to see the picture somehow and therefore didn't get caught in the crossfire of the latest mindless act of spite from a URC "regular".

(He would have uploaded the image to an image hosting service himself in the first place if he'd been genuinely concerned about bandwidth. It's nothing but a feeble excuse.)