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It's not uncommon for installers or repairers to omit a fairly costly item
like inhibitor. Without any, a system will still last the warranty period. And then provide more work for them or their trade rather earlier than if it is used. A win win situation - for them. -- *Why do the two "sanction"s (noun and verb) mean opposites?* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
It's not uncommon for installers or repairers to omit a fairly costly item like inhibitor. Without any, a system will still last the warranty period. And then provide more work for them or their trade rather earlier than if it is used. A win win situation - for them. Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. Ta Alan. -- To reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'. |
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On Jul 9, 9:37 am, (A.Lee) wrote:
Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. Ta Alan. ?? looks ok in GG (for as long as is visible....) ;)) Jim K |
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On 09/07/2011 09:47, Jim K wrote:
On Jul 9, 9:37 am, (A.Lee) wrote: Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. Ta Alan. ?? looks ok in GG (for as long as is visible....) ;)) Wouldn't want to change things in that software and lose those taglines. There are a couple of posters around the UK newsgroups that don't have optimal sending abilities for the rest of usenet.... and then there is GG and *banter etc... IMO Dave's client sending issues are very minor in comparision. -- Adrian C |
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A.Lee wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: It's not uncommon for installers or repairers to omit a fairly costly item like inhibitor. Without any, a system will still last the warranty period. And then provide more work for them or their trade rather earlier than if it is used. A win win situation - for them. Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. Ta Alan. I'd suggest you get yourself a compliant newsreader. Or learn how to use the one you have. -- *You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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En el artículo , Dave Plowman (News)
escribió: I'd suggest you get yourself a compliant newsreader. Or learn how to use the one you have. It's not him, it's you. Your headers show no References: lines, which is what enables threading, so any decent news client (and that doesn't include gargle gropes) will think it's a new post. FWIW, Turnpike sees it as a new post too. From your post (the one Alan referred to): Path: mx04.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal- september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:22:56 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 10 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: Y4lVOo3N2sO6iMyMpcYdZA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 10:58:28 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
I'd suggest you get yourself a compliant newsreader. Or learn how to use the one you have. It's not him, it's you. Your headers show no References: lines, which is what enables threading, Yet Dave's client at least preserves the References: line when it is there. His response in: Subject: Lidl offers from Thurs. Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:25:48 +0100 Message-ID: Has References: how ever Dave has also quoted part of the message he is responding to there. So perhaps without quotes it strips/doesn't create References: or Dave had finger trouble. -- Cheers Dave. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article : Dave Plowman (News) wrote: It's not uncommon ..... Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, .... I'd suggest you get yourself a compliant newsreader. Or learn how to use the one you have. It is compliant, your posts show as a new thread, with no attributions showing. Notice there is no 'Reference' line, which I think is the main problem, as Newsreaders cannot tell what it is related to. From: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt 2.2.5. References This field lists the Message-ID's of any messages prompting the submission of this message. It is required for all follow-up messages, and forbidden when a new subject is raised.... ...The purpose of the "References" header is to allow messages to be grouped into conversations by the user interface program. This allows conversations within a newsgroup to be kept together See your full headers below: Path: mx04.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-septembe r.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:22:56 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 10 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: Y4lVOo3N2sO6iMyMpcYdZA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 It's not uncommon... Snipped. -- To reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'. |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (A.Lee) saying something like: It is compliant, your posts show as a new thread, with no attributions showing. Agent shows it as part of the thread, perfectly ok. Otoh, Agent does have moments where it screws up things just like everything else. |
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On 09/07/2011 10:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , wrote: Dave Plowman wrote: It's not uncommon for installers or repairers to omit a fairly costly item like inhibitor. Without any, a system will still last the warranty period. And then provide more work for them or their trade rather earlier than if it is used. A win win situation - for them. Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. Ta Alan. I'd suggest you get yourself a compliant newsreader. Or learn how to use the one you have. Don't think it's a standards issue - your posts often show up as separate threads, seemingly out of the blue. Wouldn't mind if the content was of any value ;-) Rob |
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A.Lee wrote:
Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. At least part of the problem is with your settings, Alan. This and all the other threads where people have complained about a new thread being created for every post have shown up perfectly threaded on all my machines in Thunderbird 2.0.24 under XP,using News Individual Net's server. -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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John Williamson wrote:
A.Lee wrote: Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time At least part of the problem is with your settings, Alan. In this case Dave's reply doesn't look like a reply in any sense of the word, no "" prefix on the subject and no "references:" header, it is in fact a new message ... viewed here in TB3.1, but no reader would thread it however it treated it. |
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On 09/07/2011 11:25, John Williamson wrote:
A.Lee wrote: Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. At least part of the problem is with your settings, Alan. This and all the other threads where people have complained about a new thread being created for every post have shown up perfectly threaded on all my machines in Thunderbird 2.0.24 under XP,using News Individual Net's server. Very odd - I'm using XP/Thunderbird 3.1.11 (for both this and the original post kicking off this thread) and on my system Dave's post has started a new thread... WTF??? Have I got settings wrong somewhere? David |
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Lobster wrote:
On 09/07/2011 11:25, John Williamson wrote: A.Lee wrote: Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. At least part of the problem is with your settings, Alan. This and all the other threads where people have complained about a new thread being created for every post have shown up perfectly threaded on all my machines in Thunderbird 2.0.24 under XP,using News Individual Net's server. Very odd - I'm using XP/Thunderbird 3.1.11 (for both this and the original post kicking off this thread) and on my system Dave's post has started a new thread... WTF??? Have I got settings wrong somewhere? No, there is no 'References' line in the Headers, so some (compliant) newsreaders cannot put it into the thread where it should have been. If there was a "reference' in the header, all newsreaders can thread it properly, as it is, some can, some can't. Alan. -- To reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'. |
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En el artículo , John Williamson
escribió: This and all the other threads where people have complained about a new thread being created for every post have shown up perfectly threaded on all my machines in Thunderbird 2.0.24 under XP,using News Individual Net's server. Probably threading by Subject: rather than References:. -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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A.Lee wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote: It's not uncommon for installers or repairers to omit a fairly costly item like inhibitor. Without any, a system will still last the warranty period. And then provide more work for them or their trade rather earlier than if it is used. A win win situation - for them. Do you think you could sort out your newsreader settings please - your posts are showing as a new thread each time, as well as you've snipped the previous content, so we dont know what you are talking about unless the thread has already been read. It looks fine here, through OE on XP. |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like: *Why do the two "sanction"s (noun and verb) mean opposites?* They don't. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sanction |
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On 09/07/2011 09:22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
It's not uncommon for installers or repairers to omit a fairly costly item like inhibitor. Without any, a system will still last the warranty period. And then provide more work for them or their trade rather earlier than if it is used. A win win situation - for them. Indeed. My boiler was installed a couple of years ago by a different plumber from the same firm, which actually I have hitherto trusted and used (for my gas stuff) for a long time. On the log book he'd stated that Sentinel had been used and admittedly I took that at face value. On reflection I now wish I'd run off a jar-full from a drain cock for a bit of diy analysis before yesterday ![]() David |
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On 09/07/2011 15:05, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el , Lobsterdavidlobs escribió: On the log book he'd stated that Sentinel had been used and admittedly I took that at face value. The plumber who fitted my new boiler peeled a label off the bottle of Sentinel and stuck it to the front of the boiler. Good point; I routinely do that myself. I have no such sticker on my own new boiler, though my guy yesterday mentioned, when I asked which inhibitor to buy, that his firm uses a 'different trade Sentinel product the same as X100' - in retrospect not sure what that meant, but he had no reason not to just say 'X100'... (also, having filled my system yesterday using my X100, he didn't use the sticker) David |
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On 09/07/2011 15:05, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
The plumber who fitted my new boiler peeled a label off the bottle of Sentinel and stuck it to the front of the boiler. I've left the empty bottle on top of the header tank. The front of the boiler is a bit too visible (not in cupboard or anything). Andy Another TB3 user with a new thread! |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
quote "I'd suggest you get yourself a compliant newsreader. Or learn how to use the one you have." your headers... From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:22:56 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 10 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: Y4lVOo3N2sO6iMyMpcYdZA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.50-32 |
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Mark wrote: your headers... From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers And? If your newsreader can't put this under the same subject heading... -- *Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Mark wrote: your headers... From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers And? If your newsreader can't put this under the same subject heading... most people on here seem to have the sense to use a use a standards compliant newsreader, and know how to use it unlike you. - |
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In article ,
Mark wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Mark wrote: your headers... From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers And? If your newsreader can't put this under the same subject heading... most people on here seem to have the sense to use a use a standards compliant newsreader, and know how to use it unlike you. Dear boy, I'm not the one complaining... -- *Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Mark wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Mark wrote: your headers... From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Bloody plumbers And? If your newsreader can't put this under the same subject heading... most people on here seem to have the sense to use a use a standards compliant newsreader, and know how to use it unlike you. Dear boy, I'm not the one complaining... Indeed, you are the person being complained about so do take the time and learn how to post a Followup to a newsgroup correctly. - |
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