what the hell is an acura

There was some junk in the early notes, yours included, but I saw a few
answers before George's "US-Centric" snipe.
You are right, though. A Google would have turned up acura.com as the
first hit, and honda-acura.net as the second hit.

www.acura.com might even have been a pretty good guess right off the bat,
without a search. That would have given the "about" information
http://www.acura.com/about/abo_home_index.asp
This doesn't blatantly line up the Honda models verses the Acura models for
comparison, but there are pictures ;-)

I might even have asked "What the heck is a Sterling?". But I would have
added that I had never seen one in the US, allowing the audience here to
explain that it was a UK phenomenon. Google wasn't around when I saw a
Sterling on the road, but Google works now.
http://www.atlanticbritish.com/sterling_827.html

 

You seem to be unclear about what "before" means on Usenet. I am not
prescient and cannot predict that a suitable reply is somewhere in prep. or
in the communication channel which just *might* pre-date/time mine. on any
given newserver.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

 

Not at all. I do presume it's faster now than relayed 1200 baud modems.
But, anyway, there was a lack of country-of-origin identification from the
original poster, and a corresponding lack of intelligence in some of the
replies.

Not that I added much, other than a parallel comparison from years ago.
When I saw the Sterling, my first thought was that it was an Acura Legend.
When I asked someone about it and they said "I know what a Honda Legend is,
but I don't know what an Acura is", I drew some conclusions.

 

Ancient japanese leprechaun

 

spake unto the masses in

Unless you know how to read message headers, in which case the country was
obvious.

What if someone had asked "What's a Rover 600?" ;^)


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That's not true. I saw easily that the account was at "btinternet" which
might imply he is posting through a service in the UK, but that only
suggests something about the country used as a reference for his question
about Acura. Maybe he was on vacation in New York and saw one on the
street. I certainly didn't change my ISP when I logged on and read news
from Mongolia.

What if he had been on AOL, or some other not-readily-recognizable ISP?
Where am I today?

I can't see much in the first picture at
http://www.euroncap.com/details.php3?id=rover_600_1997
But the last sentence on the page is a pretty solid clue.

 

spake unto the masses in

That's not fair. You are using Linux, which suggests potential knowledge of
routing, header manipulation and other issues most people have no idea
about.

Anybody as uninformed as to lack knowledge of how to use Google to find out
what an Acura is, is unlikely to be able to specify routes or to know how
to use NNTP servers not provided by their ISPs.

Assuming your headers are not forged and you are not deliberately obscuring
your source, you are using a server in or around San Jose, CA. This means
it is likely that you are in that area. Port 80 is open on this machine,
but 119 is not. At least not to external requests.

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I think the server is located downtown San Jose. Or at some hosting site
near there. But through the magic of internet...
I am not in downtown San Jose. Not even a local call from home.
On the other hand, a habit that I got into the BMW group was to include my
area in the .sig, to give some frame of reference to topics that had
geography associated with them, like discussions of good roads, or riding
conditions and such.

"rahul.net" might be geographically clueless. If you knew more about it,
you might guess India. "us.com" might imply that I am in the US. But I've
had the same ISP for 10+ years. I've moved out of the Bay Area, spent some
time overseas... I still "post" from Downtown San Jose.

 

spake unto the masses in

Like...I...said... (in the portion of my post that thou didst snip).

Netizens who are aware of the things you are aware of, and are capable of
capitalizing on the sort of "tricks" that you are capable of, and are
capable of using resources not spoon-fed to them via their ISP, are likely
predisposed to search Google before asking in Usenet "what the hell is an
Acura?".

Hence, my original assertion that a check of the OP's headers would yield
the clue to his country is still valid. Remember, he never checked Google,
Yahoo, AltaVista or any other search engine before asking his question.


Question for *you* now: Where am *I* located?



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canuckland?

 

I snipped it because, capable or not, I shouldn't have to guess where you
are, if the question that you are asking has some geo-political reference.

What trick did I play?
10 years ago, I signed up with an ISP with a local dialup. I still use
that ISP. I don't live in that place anymore.

When my daughter sends email to me from Mongolia, she uses AOL, and it
"looks like" she's in New York. She's not very tricky, at least not
intentionally.

I would really think more likely, but that's not the case in this thread.

If it is geographically important, I suppose you'd make note of it.
If I had to guess, I would say somewhere near Toronto.