I just wanted to tell every one about a realy nifty site I ran across. It's called Trader's Port. You can trade samples of tea for free. You don't have to send in a sample to get one, but I did anyway. Actually, I sent in about 4 oz of some jasmine oolong that I liked, but I found a jasmine tea I liked even better. She's just starting out, so go take a look. Marlene PS. I suppose you want the site address eh?
You know what, chicken little, you need to get a real provider (news.individual.net has $1 a month account) because a number of people killfile google posts.
And the site is commercial.
Killfile? Anyway, I took your advice.
I went back and checked again. It isn't a commercial site. Not really. It has adds because she got the site free, like geocities, but it isn't commercial. She doesn't even charge shipping on the samples she sends out. She does accept donations (starving college student and all) But none are required. You don't even have to send tea in, although I think it's in good taste to return the favor.
I also don't really get the chicken little reference. hmmm, must think on this longer...
Anywho, I just got masalla (sp?) chai from my friend. I had some earlier today. I fell instantly in love with this stuff. I don't usually take sugar with my tea, and never milk, but wow, this was good. It seemed way to bitter without the sugar and milk. I've really only ever had 'cheater' Chai. You know, David Rio Chai mix and the Oregon whatever stuff. This tea was, well, granulated. Like roughly ground coffee. Is that standard?
Marlene I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.
snipped-for-privacy@individual.net/16/05 05: snipped-for-privacy@utahis.com
Marlene,
Worry not. *None* of us are "complete" idiots, try as we might. The website you mention is certainly *not* commercial, being of such poor quality, but the concept is admirable and unusual, so thanks for bringing it to our attention, stupid ads not withstanding.
Granulated like rough ground coffee indicates CTC -- cut, tear, curl -- tea, which is a machined style. Some people prefer this style to whole leaves because it releases to the hot water more quickly. It is a far more common style world wide than whole leaf tea. It's legit.
On the TeaMail issue, let it go and stop wimpering. Life goes on.
Hope this helps.
Michael
Why does someone kill a google post?
Jim
Rebecca Ore wrote: ...slag pile...
For the same reason people killfile WebTV posts.
Because a bunch of trolls use it to be untraceable.
I thought mabye Google was sending ads along with the post. You can hide behind a news server as well as Google. Google posts my IP address and with a court order you could hunt me down. Theoretically an email address shouldn't bounce with Google since you need it to sign up in the first place. My current old email address which I used 10 years isn't valid since January of last year. I've posted how to morph it into something valid (add the prefix the to the user and change the domain to msn.com). Yep the userid was already taken. I wished I could fuzzy up the email address like you using Google. I'm more wary of the free email domains such as Hotmail and Yahoo.
Jim
Rebecca Ore wrote:
I just used Google and found a survey that said the top domain name for adding to a killfile is individual.net because why pay any attention too freeloaders heretofore who'll wish they had a CC after April Fool's Day versus Google where the ads on the right side of the webpage don't cause a problem unless you're Asian and doesn't make you switch nationalities because the Dollar is less weak against the Euro than the Pound.
Jim
Derek wrote:
Pots and kettles, Jim. Unless you're paying for Google access, you're just as much a freeloader as I am.
Then again, I actually pay for access to two other NNTP servers. So you might actually be *more* of a freeloader than I am. How often do you click on a advertising link that Google serves up?
Even worse, you're actually helping Google to make money by using our original material to sell advertising!
news.individual.net just started charging (something like 10 euros a year). They ended up with circa a quarter million free loaders (or something over a tenth million) and decided it was waaay too much trouble not to get paid for babysitting.
No one said that the email address bounces.
Hotmail and Yahoo allow anyone to set up a free account and make no effort to verify the users validity. So one simply sets up a junk account and uses it to get the activation link before abandoning Hotmail.
Your point about IP addresses is a good one. However, IP addresses at public terminals (such as libraries, university computer labs, cyber cafes, etc) do little to track down a user. And IP addresses can actually be spoofed.
Yes, but that's just the users on the individual.net service. Those on news.cis.dfn.de (or whatever it is) are still free. But they stopped adding new users to that when they opened up individual.net. I've paid my 10 euros.
I have two other NNTP servers I pay for (University fees and local ISP). But both require me to be connected directly to their network, and neither filter the newsgroups for spam. And they are horrid at actually keeping threads together.
Individual.net allows me to take my laptop from home to campus and still access newsgroups, and it cuts the spam.
It's an admirable concept, but I'm leery about trading food substances with a person or persons unknown to me, not meaning your friend, of course, but what about the others? There are too many malicious kooks in the world and a lot of them in cyberspace even though I tend to believe that the tea community is generally honorable.
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