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"JL Grasso" wrote in message
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:17:52 -0700, "AbsolutelyCertain"
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"Rich Ahrens" wrote in message
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Scott M. Kozel wrote:

nobody wrote:

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:


Posting an "April Fools Day" joke on March 31st is LAME, and the
"joke"
was LAME to begin with.

Hold on a minute. Look at the list of newsgroups the original post
was
sent
to. It was perfectly legitimate.


Baloney, any way you slice it.

These are worldwide newsgroups -- rec.aviation.piloting,
rec.travel.air,
alt.disasters.aviation, and rec.aviation.piloting

Scott, you're full of crap on this one. By your standards, it would be
lame to post an April Fools joke on April 2nd as well. But any time one
chose to post it, it would be either March 31st or April 2nd
*somewhere*
in the worldwide audience. He posted on 4/1 in his timezone. The only
reason the post had a 3/31 timestamp on was that it was posted through
Altopia, which always substitutes its local time, IP address, etc.

Give it up.

Which pope was it, again, that established April Fools Day?

Tarver says they named the calendar aft him; Pope Swimsuit IV.

Ah. Tarver claims more stuff named after him than JFK and Ronald Reagan,
combined, it seems. Truly, a legend in his own pie-eyed mind. And a
medical marvel, able to stay intoxicated even with his head all the way up
his ass. And yet, even from this brown world of total confusion, he manages
to enlighten and entertain us on a regular basis.

This is what it must have been like to live in the time of Beethoven. Even
deaf, he produced great music. Even buried in ****, Tarver continues his
work. We are witnessing something extraordinary.

Rich Ahrens wrote:

Scott M. Kozel wrote:
nobody wrote:
"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:

Posting an "April Fools Day" joke on March 31st is LAME, and the "joke"
was LAME to begin with.

Hold on a minute. Look at the list of newsgroups the original post was sent
to. It was perfectly legitimate.


Baloney, any way you slice it.

These are worldwide newsgroups -- rec.aviation.piloting, rec.travel.air,
alt.disasters.aviation, and rec.aviation.piloting

Scott, you're full of crap on this one.

No, you are. He only missed the whole U.S., North America, Central
America, and most of South America with his lame "joke".

"AbsolutelyCertain" wrote:

"Rich Ahrens" wrote:

Give it up.

Which pope was it, again, that established April Fools Day?

REALLY!!

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote in message
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"AbsolutelyCertain" wrote:

"Rich Ahrens" wrote:

Give it up.

Which pope was it, again, that established April Fools Day?

REALLY!!

Yes, I thought it might be Pope Daffy VII.

"AbsolutelyCertain" wrote:

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:
"AbsolutelyCertain" wrote:
"Rich Ahrens" wrote:

Give it up.

Which pope was it, again, that established April Fools Day?

REALLY!!

Yes, I thought it might be Pope Daffy VII.

I thought it was Pope Tarver XXIII.

No?

Scott M. Kozel wrote:

Rich Ahrens wrote:

Scott M. Kozel wrote:

nobody wrote:

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:


Posting an "April Fools Day" joke on March 31st is LAME, and the "joke"
was LAME to begin with.

Hold on a minute. Look at the list of newsgroups the original post was sent
to. It was perfectly legitimate.


Baloney, any way you slice it.

These are worldwide newsgroups -- rec.aviation.piloting, rec.travel.air,
alt.disasters.aviation, and rec.aviation.piloting

Scott, you're full of crap on this one.


No, you are. He only missed the whole U.S., North America, Central
America, and most of South America with his lame "joke".

Sez you, the humorless wonder...

To replace the logic you snipped for failure to have any argument
against it:

By your standards, it would be lame to post an April Fools joke on April
2nd as well. But any time one chose to post it, it would be either March
31st or April 2nd *somewhere* in the worldwide audience. He posted on
4/1 in his timezone. The only reason the post had a 3/31 timestamp on
was that it was posted through Altopia, which always substitutes its
local time, IP address, etc.

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Rich Ahrens wrote:

Scott M. Kozel wrote:
Rich Ahrens wrote:
Scott M. Kozel wrote:
nobody wrote:
"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:

Posting an "April Fools Day" joke on March 31st is LAME, and the "joke"
was LAME to begin with.

Hold on a minute. Look at the list of newsgroups the original post was sent
to. It was perfectly legitimate.

Baloney, any way you slice it.

These are worldwide newsgroups -- rec.aviation.piloting, rec.travel.air,
alt.disasters.aviation, and rec.aviation.piloting

Scott, you're full of crap on this one.

No, you are. He only missed the whole U.S., North America, Central
America, and most of South America with his lame "joke".

Sez you, the humorless wonder...

To replace the logic you snipped for failure to have any argument
against it:

By your standards, it would be lame to post an April Fools joke on April
2nd as well.

Indeed, plus on any other day of the year other than April 1st.

But any time one chose to post it, it would be either March
31st or April 2nd *somewhere* in the worldwide audience. He posted on
4/1 in his timezone. The only reason the post had a 3/31 timestamp on
was that it was posted through Altopia, which always substitutes its
local time, IP address, etc.

Most ISPs do put local time in the date-time stamp of a post.

If I was going to post an "April Fools Day" post to worldwide news
groups, I would at least time it so that Europe and the Americas would
be on April 1st, after all these are English-speaking newsgroups, so the
vast majority of likely readers would be in those places.

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote in message
...
Rich Ahrens wrote:

No, you are. He only missed the whole U.S., North America, Central
America, and most of South America with his lame "joke".

diddums .... doesn't take a mental genius to figure out timezones.

Why not give it up? All these "attempted April Fools Jokes" were pretty
lame anyway .. crossposting breaches the AUP of most ISP's AND it's now the
3rd April so settle down ....

Rich Ahrens wrote:
a news service. And many news servers use the time of the machine the
user is posting from (i.e., their PC), while Altopia is specifically
structured to hide the location and, if desired, identity of a poster.

Partly wrong. There is a standard for the time format in the Date: header
line. This format includes the offset to GMT either explicitely, or
implicitely (by useing a few well known time zone names).

The client will often translate the posted date into the local time of THE READER.

So, for instance, if someone in england posts a message at 17:00 (which is
GMT+1 in summer), when I read it, because I am at GMT - 4 (EDT), the message
will appear TO ME as having been posted at 12:00.

Now, if the poster posts from london on April 1 at 00:01, it will appear to me
(April 1 we are still in EST, GMT-5) as having been posted on march 31 at
18:01 (6 hours difference during that week).

"Edge" wrote:

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:
Rich Ahrens wrote:

No, you are. He only missed the whole U.S., North America, Central
America, and most of South America with his lame "joke".

diddums .... doesn't take a mental genius to figure out timezones.

Why not give it up? All these "attempted April Fools Jokes" were pretty
lame anyway .. crossposting breaches the AUP of most ISP's AND it's now the
3rd April so settle down ....

Multiple problems with the original post, as you say. Rich Ahrens
ignores that, and instead channels John Tarver.