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What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

The white keyboard in question has a type-C USB port for connection to a
PC, and a USB dongle of course. It also has a switch to select wired (mis-lablled as "OFF"?) and wirelss mode (mis-labelled as "ON"?).

BTW, the keyboard in question has LEDs under all keycaps. You can choose
light shows using hot keys.
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Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

Why would you want to discharge the battery? For battery life it's
best to leave it charged. As regards risk I think it's trivial,
problems only tend to occur when charging or discharging the battery.
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On 6/27/2026 1:14 PM, Chris Green wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

Why would you want to discharge the battery?

Long-term storage!! I dunno when I will or might use it again.

For battery life it's best to leave it charged.

Battery life is not important.

As regards risk I think it's trivial,
problems only tend to occur when charging
or discharging the battery.

You sure about that?

Isn't it safer to discharge all energy before
leaving or disposing of rechargeable batteries?

I indeed worries about fire risks storing stuffs
with internal rechargeable battery, notably
self ignition or spontaneous combusion without
flame nor heat. Think hot weather!!
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On 27/06/2026 05:21, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

I would just leave it in its "last used" state.

The last thing you want to do is to store it fully discharged - depending on the
battery design, it may never recover from a full discharge.

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Mr. Man-wai Chang,

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery
in a wireless USB keyboard?

Why would you want/need to do that ? What do you think (c|w)ould go wrong
if you didn't ?

But the fastest way would be to open the keyboard, take some electrical wire and connect the positive and negative battery terminals. Depending on the kind of battery it might cause sparking and a glowing, *very* hot battery though. It might even explode. But hey, its fast. :-)

It also has a switch to select wired (mis-lablled as "OFF"?) and wirelss mode (mis-labelled as "ON"?).

You mean when its "on" the wireless mode is active - regardles of if the (PC
/ USB) connector is plugged in and its recharging the battery - and when its "off" the wireless doesn't work - even though it could still charge the battery - and its just a standard PC / USB keyboard ?

What do you think that the switches labeling should have said instead ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 6/27/2026 1:42 PM, David Taylor wrote:

On 27/06/2026 05:21, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

The last thing you want to do is to store it fully discharged - depending on the
battery design, it may never recover from a full discharge.

As I said in the another reply, I don't care about the life of that
stupid but dangerous rechargeable battery. :)

But is a fully discharged r.b. still a fire disk?

Will a fully discharged r.b. self ignite/explode/combust?
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On 6/27/2026 1:46 PM, R.Wieser wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang,

You mean when its "on" the wireless mode is active - regardles of if the (PC / USB) connector is plugged in and its recharging the battery - and when its "off" the wireless doesn't work - even though it could still charge the battery - and its just a standard PC / USB keyboard ?

What do you think that the switches labeling should have said instead ?

Keyboard in question: Acer OKW132 mechanical keyboard

ON - WiFi Active LED flashes. That keyboard is in wireless mode,
I suppose.

OFF - WiFi Active LED no longer flashes. I suppose that means
wired mode, and I need to plug in the USB cable from the PC.

Regardless of the state of the switch, the type-C cable always
charges the battery, as displayed by the battery LED.

I haven't had the time to open the keyboard, because you need
to unmount all Cherry switch first, nearly 80 of them.
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On 6/27/2026 1:46 PM, R.Wieser wrote:

But the fastest way would be to open the keyboard, take some electrical wire and connect the positive and negative battery terminals. Depending on the kind of battery it might cause sparking and a glowing, *very* hot battery though. It might even explode. But hey, its fast. :-)

Can you do it via its Type-C USB port?
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On 27/06/2026 06:49, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

As I said in the another reply, I don't care about the life of that
stupid but dangerous rechargeable battery. 🙂

But is a fully discharged r.b. still a fire disk?

Will a fully discharged r.b. self ignite/explode/combust?

A fully discharged battery /may/ not be in a safe state.

Just remove the battery, dispose of it, and replace later (with a new cell) when
required.
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Mr. Man-wai Chang,

What do you think that the switches labeling should have said instead ?

Keyboard in question: Acer OKW132 mechanical keyboard

ON - WiFi Active LED flashes. That keyboard is in wireless mode,
I suppose.

OFF - WiFi Active LED no longer flashes. I suppose that means
wired mode, and I need to plug in the USB cable from the PC.

Regardless of the state of the switch, the type-C cable always
charges the battery, as displayed by the battery LED.

Thats a description of what the switch (supposedly) does, not an answer to
my question.

Also, that led is blinking as long as its in wireless mode ? I would go crazy because of the distraction (I would either disconnect/remove the led
or throw the whole keyboard out)

I haven't had the time to open the keyboard, because you need
to unmount all Cherry switch first, nearly 80 of them.

The last time I opened a keyboard I could just remove the plastic bottom
shell and leave the actual keyboard (with its buttons) with the top shell.
It might even just be a foil keyboard, with a small circuit-board located under the leds (the mechanics of the keys being a part of the top shell).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Mr. Man-wai Chang,

Can you do it via its Type-C USB port?

Definitily not.

There is a bit of electronics between the cables power-lines and the
battery - to make sure that the battery doesn't load to fast and not gets over/under charged (both can kill a battery rather quickly), and also to
make sure that when the connector pins *accidentily* gets short-circuited
you don't end up with a laptop-bag or backpack bursting into flames (or just fries the keyboards electronics).

And for the record : you should *never* short-circuit a battery (or any power-source for that matter).

But as asked, why do you think you should discharge the keyboards battery to begin with ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 27/06/2026 05:21, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

Just let it self discharge in storage. As long as it is in a cool
environment with no risk of the battery being crashed, it will be fine. Alternatively disassemble and dispose of the battery before storing.

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On 27/06/2026 08:57, druck wrote:

On 27/06/2026 05:21, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery
in a wireless USB keyboard?

Just let it self discharge in storage. As long as it is in a cool environment with no risk of the battery being crashed, it will be fine. Alternatively disassemble and dispose of the battery before storing.

s/crashed/crushed/
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On 6/27/2026 2:03 PM, David Taylor wrote:

A fully discharged battery /may/ not be in a safe state.

Just remove the battery, dispose of it, and replace later (with a new cell) when
required.

It's cleverly enclosed in a plastic casing! Any other way(s) to
discharge it? Say, via the exposed Type-C USB port of the keyboard?
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:

Any other way(s) to discharge it? Say, via the exposed Type-C USB port
of the keyboard?

It's more likely the keyboard will take power over USB than supply power
over USB ...
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On 6/27/2026 2:41 PM, R.Wieser wrote:

Also, that led is blinking as long as its in wireless mode ? I would go crazy because of the distraction (I would either disconnect/remove the led
or throw the whole keyboard out)

I don't mind flashing lights. You can turn your back or close your eye
and eyelids to ignore it. It's just light.

Unless your brain is born with weaknesses that reacts crazily when
seeing flashing lights, or hearing drum rolls. :)
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On 6/27/2026 3:57 PM, druck wrote:

Just let it self discharge in storage. As long as it is in a cool
environment with no risk of the battery being crashed, it will be fine. Alternatively disassemble and dispose of the battery before storing.

So to quickly discharge a rechargeable battery, the only way is to
extract the battery out of secuerd casing, and short its anode and
cathode (which are protected by chips) with a fuse?

That's really tricky for babies and kids.

That explained why they make USB port's pin smaller, narrower, finer
while increasing the power. :)
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On 27/06/2026 10:41, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/27/2026 3:57 PM, druck wrote:

Just let it self discharge in storage. As long as it is in a cool
environment with no risk of the battery being crashed, it will be fine.
Alternatively disassemble and dispose of the battery before storin

So to quickly discharge a rechargeable battery, the only way is to
extract the battery out of secuerd casing, and short its anode and
cathode (which are protected by chips) with a fuse?

No, that's not what I said.

DO NOT try to quickly discharge Lithium batteries, either let it
discharge naturally, or take to a place which disposes of Lithium
batteries safely.

Otherwise you will damage the equipment, and are likely to cause the
very fire you are trying to avoid.

That's really tricky for babies and kids.

Which is why no one, apart from you is recommending doing that.

That explained why they make USB port's pin smaller, narrower, finer
while increasing the power. :)

USB-C's increased power capability is from being able to use higher
voltages, and not increasing current over thin wires. It has nothing to
do with discharging.

Anyway given this response along with the number and inappropriateness
of the cross posted groups, I'm going put this down as trolling, and
kill the thread.

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On 6/28/2026 3:30 AM, druck wrote:

DO NOT try to quickly discharge Lithium batteries, either let it
discharge naturally, or take to a place which disposes of Lithium
batteries safely.

USB-C's increased power capability is from being able to use higher
voltages, and not increasing current over thin wires. It has nothing to
do with discharging.

So there is absolutely no way to quickly discharge rechargeable
batteries so as to return them to safe state?

I will open a thread targetting only rechargeable batteries including
ones made out of lithium.
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On 6/28/2026 3:30 AM, druck wrote:

Anyway given this response along with the number and inappropriateness
of the cross posted groups, I'm going put this down as trolling, and
kill the thread.

Is there an active, crowded Usenet newsgroup that
talks about rechargeables batteries?
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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

So there is absolutely no way to quickly discharge rechargeable
batteries so as to return them to safe state?

Because there's no *need* to do anything; how long have you owned this keyboard? How many times has it caught fire?

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On 28/06/2026 05:11, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 3:30 AM, druck wrote:

DO NOT try to quickly discharge Lithium batteries, either let it
discharge naturally, or take to a place which disposes of Lithium
batteries safely.

USB-C's increased power capability is from being able to use higher
voltages, and not increasing current over thin wires. It has nothing to
do with discharging.

So there is absolutely no way to quickly discharge rechargeable
batteries so as to return them to safe state?

I have here a container containing a quantity of potential energy. It
might be a lake behind a dam. It might be a fusion bomb, it might be a battery...It might be an elephant at 50,000 feet.

I want to rapidly and safely return it to a state where it has no energy.

Unfortunately someone told me energy is always conserved, usually into a fucking big bang.

All questions are simpler when viewed from the correct perspective.

I will open a thread targetting only rechargeable batteries including
ones made out of lithium.

Will you now?
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On 28/06/2026 05:13, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 3:30 AM, druck wrote:

Anyway given this response along with the number and inappropriateness
of the cross posted groups, I'm going put this down as trolling, and
kill the thread.

Is there an active, crowded Usenet newsgroup that
talks about rechargeables batteries?

Yep. This one.

Unfortunately it is infested with people who have done stuff including
getting an education in science.

If you just want to talk to fellow members of the Bandar Log and appear erudite whilst saying nothing of any value, try Faeces Book. The refuge
of the Monkey People.

Or you could join a radical left wing political group - the sort of
place where you learn to turn a man into a woman by just *thinking very
hard*.

How Kewl is that?
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On 6/28/2026 5:35 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

So there is absolutely no way to quickly discharge rechargeable
batteries so as to return them to safe state?

Because there's no *need* to do anything; how long have you owned this keyboard? How many times has it caught fire?

You only need one mishap to get killed and have your home burnt!
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On 6/28/2026 6:12 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I will open a thread targetting only rechargeable batteries including
ones made out of lithium.

Will you now?

I am scanning the newsgroup names for the proper one.

Is "discharging batteries" actually material science?
Or physics? Fire department? Military? Assassination?

You can actually detonate a bomb by discharging
a small battery wrapped inside explosives, right? :)

Then police? fbi? alt.conspiracy?

Which group should I choose, Your Honor??? Meow???
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On 6/28/2026 6:16 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

If you just want to talk to fellow members of the Bandar Log and appear erudite whilst saying nothing of any value, try Faeces Book. The refuge
of the Monkey People.

That should have been Reddit?

Why isn't Usenet listed in NYSE? Why Threads & Reddit can?

Come on Usenet, go IPO! :)
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On 28/06/2026 11:25, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 6:12 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I will open a thread targetting only rechargeable batteries including
ones made out of lithium.

Will you now?

I am scanning the newsgroup names for the proper one.

Is "discharging batteries" actually material science?
Or physics? Fire department? Military? Assassination?

You can actually detonate a bomb by discharging
a small battery wrapped inside explosives, right? :)

Then police? fbi? alt.conspiracy?

Which group should I choose, Your Honor??? Meow???

I think you belong on Faecesbook. Or twatter.
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very definition of slavery.

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On 28/06/2026 11:29, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 6:16 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

If you just want to talk to fellow members of the Bandar Log and appear
erudite whilst saying nothing of any value, try Faeces Book. The refuge
of the Monkey People.

That should have been Reddit?

Why isn't Usenet listed in NYSE? Why Threads & Reddit can?

Come on Usenet, go IPO! :)

Usenet doesn't make a profit and is not owned by anyone.
Twat.
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very definition of slavery.

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On 6/28/2026 6:32 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Which group should I choose, Your Honor??? Meow???

I think you belong on Faecesbook. Or twatter.

Can you trust those masked faces in Facebook?
Sorry, I cannot.

And Facebook is NOT like NNTP news-reader like
Thunderbird. :)
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On 6/28/2026 6:33 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

That should have been Reddit?
Why isn't Usenet listed in NYSE? Why Threads & Reddit can?

Come on Usenet, go IPO! :)

Usenet doesn't make a profit and is not owned by anyone.
Twat.

Well... Anyone got a good plan to IPO Usenet? Try it! :)
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On 28/06/2026 12:13, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 6:32 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Which group should I choose, Your Honor??? Meow???

I think you belong on Faecesbook. Or twatter.

Can you trust those masked faces in Facebook?
Sorry, I cannot.

And Facebook is NOT like NNTP news-reader like
Thunderbird. :)

Gosh. How did I miss that?
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On 28/06/2026 12:14, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 6:33 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

That should have been Reddit?
Why isn't Usenet listed in NYSE? Why Threads & Reddit can?

Come on Usenet, go IPO! :)

Usenet doesn't make a profit and is not owned by anyone.
Twat.

Well... Anyone got a good plan to IPO Usenet? Try it! :)

Bugger off, there's a good boy.
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:23:17 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 28/06/2026 12:13, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 6:32 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Which group should I choose, Your Honor??? Meow???

I think you belong on Faecesbook. Or twatter.

Can you trust those masked faces in Facebook?
Sorry, I cannot.

And Facebook is NOT like NNTP news-reader like
Thunderbird. :)

Gosh. How did I miss that?

Chang is trolling. No one is as stump stupid as he displays.
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On 6/28/2026 7:37 PM, KenitoBenito wrote:

Chang is trolling. No one is as stump stupid as he displays.

No. I am hunting for something nobody understands. :)
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On 6/28/2026 7:23 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Come on Usenet, go IPO! :)

Usenet doesn't make a profit and is not owned by anyone.
Twat.

Well... Anyone got a good plan to IPO Usenet? Try it! :)

Bugger off, there's a good boy.

Why can't Usenet get rich? Why can't teachers get rich? :)
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On 6/27/2026 3:09 PM, R.Wieser wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang,

Can you do it via its Type-C USB port?

Definitily not.

Because the circuit prevents discharging
via the USB-C port? So as not to affect
the charging process? :)

There is a bit of electronics between the cables power-lines and the
battery - to make sure that the battery doesn't load ....

And for the record : you should *never* short-circuit a battery (or any power-source for that matter).

But as asked, why do you think you should discharge the keyboards battery to begin with ?

Just wanna stop using the wireless USB keyboard
in question, wrap it and put it back into the box.
Then stuff it somewhere fire-safe.

That's all. No evil ideas. Not trying to blow
up anything. Well...

Evil people might read this thread, sneak into
my home then steal my wirelss keyboard and
use it to do evil. Well.... I have lost many
things without me knowing it.
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On 6/27/2026 2:41 PM, R.Wieser wrote:

Also, that led is blinking as long as its in
wireless mode ? I would go crazy because of
the distraction

Only cursed or conditioned persons or patients
have the problem you described? It reminded
them of muzzle flashes?

... which means whoever fired a weapons that
flashes? You are a gun owner and/or lover?

Okay... that's interesting, Your Honor. :)
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On 6/27/2026 2:41 PM, R.Wieser wrote:

I would go crazy because of the distraction

Did you kill someone using a weapon
that flash, BANG!! and recoil? :)


Muzzle flash - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_flash>

flashing light psychology - Google 搜尋 <https://www.google.com/search?q=flashing+light+psychology>

flicker light psychology - Google 搜尋 <https://www.google.com/search?q=flicker+light+psychology>

vision flash - Google 搜尋
<https://www.google.com/search?q=vision+flash>
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On 27/06/2026 05:21, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in
a wireless USB keyboard?

The white keyboard in question has a type-C USB port for connection to a
PC, and a USB dongle of course. It also has a switch to select wired (mis-lablled as "OFF"?) and wirelss mode (mis-labelled as "ON"?).

BTW, the keyboard in question has LEDs under all keycaps. You can choose light shows using hot keys.

This is quality trolling. We haven't had a good trolling session for a
while.

/me gets popcorn and sodas
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

So there is absolutely no way to quickly discharge rechargeable
batteries so as to return them to safe state?

There is no safer state than that in which they are right now.

David
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On 6/27/2026 12:21 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

The white keyboard in question has a type-C USB port for connection to a
PC, and a USB dongle of course. It also has a switch to select wired (mis-lablled as "OFF"?) and wirelss mode (mis-labelled as "ON"?).

(Keyboard in question: Acer OKW132 mechanical keyboard)>

After days of use, its fixed and hidden battery
finally could not operate the keyboard. Buttons
start failing to work momentarily then totally.
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On 6/28/2026 11:18 PM, mm0fmf wrote:

/me gets popcorn and sodas

Is this combo healthy?

I rather drink Chinese or tea instead of soda.

Is pop-corn really corn? Or is it sweet plastic fabric? :)


Meow...
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On 6/29/2026 12:25 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

After days of use, its fixed and hidden battery
finally could not operate the keyboard. Buttons
start failing to work momentarily then totally.

No, the battery level LED (red in color)
is still flashing when hitting a key.
There is still electricity in its
rechargeable battery.

How can I drain the battery by
mechanically, automatically
hitting a key continueously
on the keyboard using everyday
items? A motor with a crane?

Like pumping oils in the Middle-East?
Meow.... :)
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On 28/06/2026 12:37, KenitoBenito wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:23:17 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 28/06/2026 12:13, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 6:32 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Which group should I choose, Your Honor??? Meow???

I think you belong on Faecesbook. Or twatter.

Can you trust those masked faces in Facebook?
Sorry, I cannot.

And Facebook is NOT like NNTP news-reader like
Thunderbird. :)

Gosh. How did I miss that?

Chang is trolling. No one is as stump stupid as he displays.

I am rather afraid that they are.
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On 28/06/2026 12:59, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 7:37 PM, KenitoBenito wrote:

      Chang is trolling. No one is as stump stupid as he displays.

No. I am hunting for something nobody understands. :)

Other peoples fantasies are not easy to comprehend.,
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On 28/06/2026 13:00, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Why can't Usenet get rich?

Because it isn't a person, or a company, or has anything with a bank
account]


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On 6/29/2026 7:47 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/06/2026 13:00, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Why can't Usenet get rich?

Because it isn't a person, or a company,
or has anything with a bank account]

Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
of going IPO like Reddit? :)
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On 29/06/2026 12:53, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/29/2026 7:47 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/06/2026 13:00, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Why can't Usenet get rich?

Because it isn't a person, or a company, or has anything with a bank
account]

Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
of going IPO like Reddit? :)

No one in their right minds.
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On 6/29/2026 7:59 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 29/06/2026 12:53, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
of going IPO like Reddit? :)

No one in their right minds.

alt.free.newsservers

See you there!!! Meow... :)
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