Experience Question

Matt Barrow wrote:

Didn't you say that the extra lines are added by your newsfeed provider?

If that is the case, not only was it trivial, but the response was asinine.

Well, to be fair to Matt W, only the last three lines at the bottom of my
sig are added automatically by Newsfeeds and I cannot do anything about
that. I added a few carriage returns (which adds a few blank lines) below
my sig to push that spam way below most PC-based news readers and I think
that is what irks him.

All he had to do was ask nicely and I would have considered the effects on
a newsreader of which I am unfamiliar. Instead, he resorted to immediate
hostility.

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Peter Duniho wrote:

"Peter R." wrote in message
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Matt Whiting wrote:

Plonk

And I thought we really bonded in that US Airways thread...

However, I agree that plonking was your only logical move, given the
duress
those single keystrokes would have caused you down the road.


I thought it was funny, personally. If I plonked folks on as little merit
as he did you, he would've been in my killfile a long time ago.

I guess some people just have a hard time dealing. With everything.

Pete



It wasn't a personal plonk, just one for convenience. It got really
annoying after a while to have to keep hitting the space bar to get to
the next message and to not see anything useful. Most entries in my
filter are for annoying sigs, folks that post in HTML, etc. I rarely
"killfile" anyone as I don't much care what anyone says, I just don't
like annoyances like fancy sigs, advertising, etc.


Matt

Matt Barrow wrote:

"Peter R." wrote in message
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Peter Duniho wrote:


I thought it was funny, personally. If I plonked folks on as little

merit

as he did you, he would've been in my killfile a long time ago.

I guess some people just have a hard time dealing. With everything.

It ranks as one of the most trivial reasons I have seen.



Didn't you say that the extra lines are added by your newsfeed provider?

If that is the case, not only was it trivial, but the response was asinine.

My understanding is that the extra .sig lines were added by his ISP, but
all of the blank lines were added by him.

Matt

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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It wasn't a personal plonk, just one for convenience. It got really
annoying after a while to have to keep hitting the space bar to get to
the next message and to not see anything useful. Most entries in my
filter are for annoying sigs, folks that post in HTML, etc. I rarely
"killfile" anyone as I don't much care what anyone says, I just don't
like annoyances like fancy sigs, advertising, etc.


Oh, you poor little boy!!

You should spend some time in the Marines!!

"Peter R." wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Didn't you say that the extra lines are added by your newsfeed provider?

If that is the case, not only was it trivial, but the response was
asinine.

Well, to be fair to Matt W, only the last three lines at the bottom of my
sig are added automatically by Newsfeeds and I cannot do anything about
that. I added a few carriage returns (which adds a few blank lines) below
my sig to push that spam way below most PC-based news readers and I think
that is what irks him.

All he had to do was ask nicely and I would have considered the effects on
a newsreader of which I am unfamiliar. Instead, he resorted to immediate
hostility.

MR. Whiting has (IME) a knack for sticking his foot in his mouth, then
expending copious time and effort in trying to spin lame excuses, instead of
having the guts to retract his remarks.

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

"Peter R." wrote in message
...

Peter Duniho wrote:


I thought it was funny, personally. If I plonked folks on as little

merit

as he did you, he would've been in my killfile a long time ago.

I guess some people just have a hard time dealing. With everything.

It ranks as one of the most trivial reasons I have seen.



Didn't you say that the extra lines are added by your newsfeed provider?

If that is the case, not only was it trivial, but the response was
asinine.

My understanding is that the extra .sig lines were added by his ISP, but
all of the blank lines were added by him.


Yes, and he explained why and it makes sense to me, but then Peter and I are
TN Bonanza pilots.

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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It wasn't a personal plonk, just one for convenience. It got really
annoying after a while to have to keep hitting the space bar to get to the
next message and to not see anything useful.

That's even more hilarious.

First of all, it's pretty childish to post a "plonk" anyway. In almost all
cases, it amounts to "la la la la I can't hear you" with your fingers in
your ears. Almost every single person in my killfile has no idea that
they've been killfiled. Why bother?

Secondly, if you DO actually post your "plonk", that is always personal.
There's no non-personal reason to post something like that. If you think
it's *really* important to communicate to the individual that you've junked
their posts (though I can see no good reason to bother), private email is
better. A public newsgroup "plonk" is anything but impersonal.

Thirdly, as far as inconveniences go, I'd say folks who fail to trim their
quotes, and who top-post, represent MUCH greater inconveniences. Oddly
enough, you fall into the first category, and I'm sitting here wondering if
you bother to killfile everyone who falls into the second (they represent a
sizable portion of the participants of this newsgroup, and create FAR
greater inconvenience for you than one extra page (at most) of blank lines
does).

Anyway, thanks for the amusement...I am laughing my ass off.

Pete

Matt Barrow wrote:

but then Peter and I are TN Bonanza pilots.

I don't think I knew you flew a TN Bonanza. Where are you based?


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"Peter R." wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

but then Peter and I are TN Bonanza pilots.

I don't think I knew you flew a TN Bonanza. Where are you based?


Montrose, CO

I use a B36TC in which the TIO-520 has been replaced by a TNIO-550.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Matt Barrow wrote:

Montrose, CO

I use a B36TC in which the TIO-520 has been replaced by a TNIO-550.

Now that you mention this, I remember. You had offered that info back in
early May when I was looking for advice on flying in the front range of
Colorado.

BTW, what appeared to be the most beautiful country over which I flew
during my trip was located in south central Colorado, just south of
Trinidad. Unfortunately I was VFR and dodging t-storms and cloud layers,
but I had a chance when flying north over the plateau there to enjoy a
moment of scenery. You are very fortunate to be based in such a scenic
state.

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Peter


















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