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[DeserTBoB]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:14:38 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:

That spammer has been pouring his crap into rec.antiques.radio+phono
for years. His ISP is either spinless, or blind with greed. <snip

Mike, FYI:

Noodles' ISP, Epix, was bought out by Frontier of Rochester, NY
earlier in the year. Frontier assessed both email and Usenet spammers
a minimum $200 "labor charge" for disciplining them for Terms of
Service violations, and has no problem cutting off Noodles' service
entirely should he start up with the Google spamming again.

Google's finally responding now, as well, as Noodles has had 26
accounts shut down for spamming, harassment, etc. etc. etc.

Frontier's abuse mail:

abuse@frontiernet.net

They like having the IP of the spamgram in the subject line...for
whatever reason.

 

In rec.antiques.radio+phono DeserTBoB <desertb@rglobal.net> wrote:

I've been hammering away at this megatoad for years, and have
recently been having some success. The IPs are real; his IP is
frontier.net, which recently bought out epix.net of Dallas, PA.

Hammering by using the same obnoxious spamming methods. Two wrongs never
make a right.

 

[Delfin Black]

On Aug 19, 10:55 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 19, 8:51 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:





On Aug 19, 5:49 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 19, 3:32 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Aug 18, 2:20 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

DB was banned from Google groups a LONG time ago if you'd look at the
profile, and that means the posting is done from Usenet.

Anti spam measures my butt. The peanut gallery members will please
refrain? The rest of us just normally ignore both ot them/

Bullshit. You post everytime they do.

Don't you have some neighbors to run over?

You Could be grateful that for the first time in over a month you
weren't ignored completely. Twit.

August 19th and you have almost 1700 posts for the month. Good grief,
get a life and move out of your mothers basement.

Mom doesn't have a basement, Nudo. You live in a doghouse however.

I've lived nearly 40 miles away since 1983.- Hide quoted text -

Oh, you really got me on that one, however, moving from your mothers
and into public housing was a lateral move at best.

 

[Delfin Black]

On Aug 19, 10:57 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 19, 8:51 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:





On Aug 19, 5:49 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 19, 3:32 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Aug 18, 2:20 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

DB was banned from Google groups a LONG time ago if you'd look at the
profile, and that means the posting is done from Usenet.

Anti spam measures my butt. The peanut gallery members will please
refrain? The rest of us just normally ignore both ot them/

Bullshit. You post everytime they do.

Don't you have some neighbors to run over?

You Could be grateful that for the first time in over a month you
weren't ignored completely. Twit.

August 19th and you have almost 1700 posts for the month. Good grief,
get a life and move out of your mothers basement.

Oh, yeah, one thing. Why are you so jealous? All of yours are world-
class garbage. Trip on that Mr. Fail and Tear it Apart.- Hide quoted text -

Your net detective skills are as limp as your driving skills.

 

[DeserTBoB]

On 20 Aug 2007 10:09:21 GMT, maarten@panic.xx.tudelft.nl wrote:

In rec.antiques.radio+phono DeserTBoB <desertb@rglobal.net> wrote:
I've been hammering away at this megatoad for years, and have
recently been having some success. The IPs are real; his IP is
frontier.net, which recently bought out epix.net of Dallas, PA.

Hammering by using the same obnoxious spamming methods. <snip

Wrong (again,) Dutch Boy. "Spam" defined is unwanted, unsolicited
email or Usenet articles which are designed to sell items or schemes
for a commercial purpose. What my responses are is called "spam
copping." Get a clue.

 

[Steven]

F*%^ DB...he hasn't put nearly 20 of these "MI5 vignettes" up on this
and dozens of groups worldwide in a few hours time.

Time to flood this 'Toronto Free-net' with abuse then get back to
castrating Bob the Boar. Google doesn't even filter or remove the
accounts they ban.

The fact it starts with Italian groups suggests the usual suspect
k00ks.

 

[Steven]

On Aug 20, 7:54 am, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Aug 19, 10:55 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:





On Aug 19, 8:51 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Aug 19, 5:49 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 19, 3:32 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Aug 18, 2:20 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

DB was banned from Google groups a LONG time ago if you'd look at the
profile, and that means the posting is done from Usenet.

Anti spam measures my butt. The peanut gallery members will please
refrain? The rest of us just normally ignore both ot them/

Bullshit. You post everytime they do.

Don't you have some neighbors to run over?

You Could be grateful that for the first time in over a month you
weren't ignored completely. Twit.

August 19th and you have almost 1700 posts for the month. Good grief,
get a life and move out of your mothers basement.

Mom doesn't have a basement, Nudo. You live in a doghouse however.

I've lived nearly 40 miles away since 1983.- Hide quoted text -

Oh, you really got me on that one, however, moving from your mothers
and into public housing was a lateral move at best.

I don't live in public housing, I rent a common house from a landord.
You don't know anything about anything but your little world of
Usenet. You aren't even Nudo. You're the same useless syphilic gay
crush of happines that always can't wait to bug other thinking it
means something and might make me magically go away.

Quit wasting my time, Smashmouth. I have a shipment to make.

 

[Steven]

On Aug 20, 7:55 am, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Aug 19, 10:57 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:





On Aug 19, 8:51 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Aug 19, 5:49 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 19, 3:32 pm, Delfin Black <dutyhonorcount...@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Aug 18, 2:20 pm, Steven <thisjukeboxplays33...@yahoo.com> wrote:

DB was banned from Google groups a LONG time ago if you'd look at the
profile, and that means the posting is done from Usenet.

Anti spam measures my butt. The peanut gallery members will please
refrain? The rest of us just normally ignore both ot them/

Bullshit. You post everytime they do.

Don't you have some neighbors to run over?

You Could be grateful that for the first time in over a month you
weren't ignored completely. Twit.

August 19th and you have almost 1700 posts for the month. Good grief,
get a life and move out of your mothers basement.

Oh, yeah, one thing. Why are you so jealous? All of yours are world-
class garbage. Trip on that Mr. Fail and Tear it Apart.- Hide quoted text -

Your net detective skills are as limp as your driving skills.

I don't drive and I don't care, Viagra Nation.

same asshole as usual, same group

Curb your dog, kids.

 

[AJ]

Do you want to replace the outside screen assembly? Authorized service
facilities will give you a quote regarding replacment costs.
"Rose" <rose.scott1@cocmcast.net> wrote in message
news:JaGdnQF3nMiLN1XbnZ2dnUVZ_obinZ2d@comcast.com...

Does anyone know if it's possible to replace the out screen on RCA DLP tvs
and whom and how much it would cost.

Thanks

Rose

 

In rec.antiques.radio+phono DeserTBoB <desertb@rglobal.net> wrote:

On 20 Aug 2007 10:09:21 GMT, maarten@panic.xx.tudelft.nl wrote:
Hammering by using the same obnoxious spamming methods. <snip
Wrong (again,) Dutch Boy. "Spam" defined is unwanted, unsolicited
email or Usenet articles which are designed to sell items or schemes
for a commercial purpose. What my responses are is called "spam
copping." Get a clue.

No need for big words when you can't back them up. Spam has, per
definition, nothing to do with commercial intent or purpose. Only
with the flooding of unwanted or unsolicited articles, messages or
other misuse of communication. Which may or may not be commercial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam

Be sure to check out the Monty Python part as well, as this is the
origin of the word spam in this context.

--
Met vriendelijke groet,

Maarten Bakker.

 

[clifto]

DaveC wrote:

I use Fluke meters in the field because they're pretty "bullet-proof" re.
their cases.

Not just the cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

--
"You know the difference between cannibals and liberals?
Cannibals only eat their enemies."
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson

 

[rex]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:20:56 -0500, clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote:

DaveC wrote:
I use Fluke meters in the field because they're pretty "bullet-proof" re.
their cases.

Not just the cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

I agree on Fluke robustness. Pretty much the same story with my 8520A
bench meter.

I wanted to make my own high voltage probe. At a flea market I had
aquired some glass encapsulated resistors that were multi-megohm. I
thought they would be perfect for my probe divider, so I built one in a
plastic tube. Tried it at some hundreds of volts and it seemed to be
working as expected. I applied it to something like 1700 V. The tube
was clear plastic, and to my horror the resistor lit up with plasma and
ugly clicking noises came out of the meter. Looking at the meter, the
fluke display had switched to Klingon or something. Expecting disaster,
I power cycled the Fluke. It came back to life and was fine.

That resistor still baffles me. As I said it was in a glass tube and was
at least an inch long. It looked perfect for HV. My guess is that it was
filled with some gas to deliberatly short itself at some voltage in the
low KV range.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

rex wrote:

I agree on Fluke robustness. Pretty much the same story with my 8520A
bench meter.

I wanted to make my own high voltage probe. At a flea market I had
aquired some glass encapsulated resistors that were multi-megohm. I
thought they would be perfect for my probe divider, so I built one in a
plastic tube. Tried it at some hundreds of volts and it seemed to be
working as expected. I applied it to something like 1700 V. The tube
was clear plastic, and to my horror the resistor lit up with plasma and
ugly clicking noises came out of the meter. Looking at the meter, the
fluke display had switched to Klingon or something. Expecting disaster,
I power cycled the Fluke. It came back to life and was fine.

That resistor still baffles me. As I said it was in a glass tube and was
at least an inch long. It looked perfect for HV. My guess is that it was
filled with some gas to deliberatly short itself at some voltage in the
low KV range.

Did you clean all body oil and other contamanints from the resistor
before you used it? A single fingerprint on a one inch glass HV
resistor could cause arc over, and for it to self destruct.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[rex]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:38:15 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:

rex wrote:

I agree on Fluke robustness. Pretty much the same story with my 8520A
bench meter.

I wanted to make my own high voltage probe. At a flea market I had
aquired some glass encapsulated resistors that were multi-megohm. I
thought they would be perfect for my probe divider, so I built one in a
plastic tube. Tried it at some hundreds of volts and it seemed to be
working as expected. I applied it to something like 1700 V. The tube
was clear plastic, and to my horror the resistor lit up with plasma and
ugly clicking noises came out of the meter. Looking at the meter, the
fluke display had switched to Klingon or something. Expecting disaster,
I power cycled the Fluke. It came back to life and was fine.

That resistor still baffles me. As I said it was in a glass tube and was
at least an inch long. It looked perfect for HV. My guess is that it was
filled with some gas to deliberatly short itself at some voltage in the
low KV range.


Did you clean all body oil and other contamanints from the resistor
before you used it? A single fingerprint on a one inch glass HV
resistor could cause arc over, and for it to self destruct.

It clearly arced inside. It looked like a neon tube not a simple
arc-over. The voltage I was measuring should not have come anywhere
close to arcing across that length. That's why I'm thinking it was
designed to do that. I looked for the resistors yesterday to see if I
could find markings, but I can't find where I stashed them now.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:38:15 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:

Did you clean all body oil and other contamanints from the resistor
before you used it? A single fingerprint on a one inch glass HV
resistor could cause arc over, and for it to self destruct.

Damn... the TerrellTard got one right.

Fact is, mere "coffee breath" can cause them to fail.

A bath in hot IPA (microwave a cup full to boil point), and a new flux
brush will do a VERY good job.

If it is a single arc event, it won't always cause it to fail
completely. The arc has to sustain long enough to form carbon arc
trails.

 

[Don Lancaster]

clifto wrote:

DaveC wrote:

I use Fluke meters in the field because they're pretty "bullet-proof" re.
their cases.


Not just the cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

Try a Simpson 360.

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: don@tinaja.com

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[Eeyore]

Don Lancaster wrote:

clifto wrote:
DaveC wrote:

I use Fluke meters in the field because they're pretty "bullet-proof" re.
their cases.

Not just the cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

Try a Simpson 360.

Is that some kinf of BIZARRE joke ?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Simpson-360-Digital-VOM-EXCELLENT-RARE_W0QQitemZ170141556993QQihZ007QQcategoryZ25412QQcmdZViewItem

Bwahahahahahaha !

Graham

 

[clifto]

Don Lancaster wrote:

clifto wrote:
Not just the cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

Try a Simpson 360.

Always loved 'em. A friend has one. I finally persuaded him to keep it in
the house and buy a cheapo DVM for garage use. It's not that the 360
couldn't take it, but he's already run it over with a car once and
scratched the case.

--
Homeopathic martini 2.0 (thanks, Ron T.):
6 oz. *Sapphire* gin (that's very important)
2 almond stuffed olives
Expose to a picture of a bottle of Cinzano for 15 seconds

 

[David L. Jones]

On Aug 23, 2:13 pm, Don Lancaster <d...@tinaja.com> wrote:

clifto wrote:
DaveC wrote:

I use Fluke meters in the field because they're pretty "bullet-proof" re.
their cases.

Not just the cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

Try a Simpson 360.

I recommend one of these:
http://www.alternatezone.com/files/Cake.jpg

Dave.

 

[Martin Brown]

On Aug 21, 9:03 pm, rex <n...@msn.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:20:56 -0500, clifto <cli...@gmail.com> wrote:
DaveC wrote:
I use Fluke meters in the field because they're pretty "bullet-proof" re.
their cases.

Notjustthe cases. My 77 got hit years ago when I got the test lead a
little too close to a flyback transformer. The size of the arc suggested
that I exceeded the maximum allowable voltage by one or two orders of
magnitude. The meter was unfazed, no change in calibration or looks.

I agree on Fluke robustness. Pretty much the same story with my 8520A
bench meter.

I wanted to make my own high voltage probe. At a flea market I had
aquired some glass encapsulated resistors that were multi-megohm. I
thought they would be perfect for my probe divider, so I built one in a
plastic tube. Tried it at some hundreds of volts and it seemed to be
working as expected. I applied it to something like 1700 V. The tube
was clear plastic, and to my horror the resistor lit up with plasma and
ugly clicking noises came out of the meter. Looking at the meter, the
fluke display had switched to Klingon or something. Expecting disaster,
I power cycled the Fluke. It came back to life and was fine.

That resistor still baffles me. As I said it was in a glass tube and was
at least an inch long. It looked perfect for HV. My guess is that it was
filled with some gas to deliberatly short itself at some voltage in the
low KV range.

It may have been a precision high impedance feedback resistor for the
type of instrumentation amplifiers used on Faraday collectors and
other scientific instruments to measure minute currents. They are
normally only ever used at very modest voltages and are optimised for
lowest possible noise in that application.

From what you describe I would hazard a guess that is what you had.
Typically they are in the 10^7 to 10^9 range - their manufacture was

(is?) a black art.

Regards,
Martin Brown