"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:xr4qk.247791$TT4.121438@attbi_s22...
My killfile has plenty of folks in it and room for plenty more. It
amazes me that the NG is still dealing with this petty annoyance.

Have I earned a spot in other's killfiles? Who cares? Life will go on.

While I agree with you, I'm still deeply saddened by the turn of events.
There was a time here when we were all friends -- and I mean *all*
friends. The list of names of great posters who have moved on to other
forums thanks to the trolls is way too long.

But, everything in life is cyclical, and I expect this is just an
especially deep downturn. Everyone and every thing changes, and (sooner
or later) Bertie, Maxwell, and (to a lesser extent) MX will move on and
leave the group in peace. Or, perhaps the migration to web-based forums
will be complete, and this group will simply dissolve.

Heck, even when this group was (IMHO) great, there were posters here
lamenting the "day AOL opened up the newsgroups" as if that was the utter
ruin of this group. It's ironic how insignificant that event turned out
to be, in the long run.
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Nonsense. You and your ilk used to control this group, just like Bertie and
his ilk controls it today. It's always been a struggle of controlling
personalities. Until EVERYONE can learn to make room for EVERYONE ELSE'S
opinion, the forum will suffer.

Too many chiefs and not enough indians, too many teachers and not enough
students.

As long as everyone as a group embraces people that don't treat others with
respect, the entire group will suffer.