ABC Inventors - electrical safety device

[Phil Allison]

"David L. Jones"

Hi Ross,
Any reason why you have set your posts to be not archived?

** The evil that men do lives on after them .....

( full apologies to the bard )



BTW

RH has his "no archive" buried in the header details - very cute.




........... Phil

 

[Ross Herbert]

On 17 May 2005 03:14:12 -0700, "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi Ross,
Any reason why you have set your posts to be not archived?
They are useful and it would be nice to have them archived on Google.

Regards
Dave

Hi David,

I can't imagine that my posts will be of any value years down the
track. Anyway, a great deal of any particular person's postings are
just a waste of space on any archive.

Where are you located? Email me direct for any other details - don't
forget the munged address.

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Tue, 17 May 2005 21:21:22 GMT, Ross Herbert
<rherber1SPAMEX@bigpond.net.au> put finger to keyboard and composed:

I can't imagine that my posts will be of any value years down the
track. Anyway, a great deal of any particular person's postings are
just a waste of space on any archive.

Maybe, but there can be a lot of useful stuff, too. I occasionally
follow up old postings in the Google archives, and I often receive
enquiries from people all over the world looking for parts,
datasheets, or other information that I have accumulated over the
years. In fact I've had three enquiries in the past fortnight.


- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 's' from my address when replying by email.

 

You're right Phil.

Phil Allison wrote:

** Imagine a small kiddie picking up one of those mini two pin female plugs
as used on many items like shavers, small audio and VCRs and DVDs. The
kiddie then decides to put the plug in its mouth while the other end is
plugged in and live.

The RCD will not trip.

** Not at all - when standing on a wood or carpet floor there is not
enough earth leakage to trip an RCD.

One has be in contact with an earthed object to do that.

BTW

I agree with your other comments about the Inventors device.

........... Phil

 

Hmmm again!

This *is* mild, and much more effective than foul-mouthed ranting, Phil. Kepp
it up!

Phil Allison wrote:

** That straw man of yours stands alone and in isolation to any other
words.


** IMO - a "straw man" is an irrelevance put up merely because the author
knows it is easy to knock down and that readers will do that without any
additional persuasion.

It usually has some vague, allegorical connection to the issue - as yours
did.

But ultimately its effect is to muddy the water.

** It was a pure "straw man" - ie nothing to do with the original issue.

Lots of folk who post on NGs **love* to use them to confound discussions,
big note themselves and send the debate off in a new direction they have
chosen and want it to go.

I just get tired of seeing so many of them.

........... Phil

 

Oops! I meant "keep"...

bloggs@blogg.com.au wrote:

Hmmm again!

This *is* mild, and much more effective than foul-mouthed ranting, Phil. Kepp
it up!

 

[David L. Jones]

Franc Zabkar wrote:

On Tue, 17 May 2005 21:21:22 GMT, Ross Herbert
rherber1SPAMEX@bigpond.net.au> put finger to keyboard and composed:

I can't imagine that my posts will be of any value years down the
track. Anyway, a great deal of any particular person's postings are
just a waste of space on any archive.

Maybe, but there can be a lot of useful stuff, too. I occasionally
follow up old postings in the Google archives, and I often receive
enquiries from people all over the world looking for parts,
datasheets, or other information that I have accumulated over the
years. In fact I've had three enquiries in the past fortnight.

The groups archive is an incredibly useful resource.
Standard search practice for me is to search Google and then the Google
Groups archive, but often I go straight to Google Groups search knowing
that I'll get much better results. It's only a single mouse click away
and very often brings up links and discussions that you can't find with
the regular Google web search.

Dave