Leaving Usnet Groups, Bye

houstondan wrote:

personally, i've always had kind of a creepy feeling when someone posts
that they're not going to post anymore. why not just stop posting and
be done with it? too much "it's all about me" for my taste but that's
just me.

Yes, I was thinking much the same,


i know nw was enjoying throwing a cat over the fence by shaking the
"non-aerobatic" at the dogs. lotsa good stuff came out but some of it
was over the top. i thought "that airframe is now worth zero" was
especially good and of course "i'm gunna tell mama" won the prize.
somebody needs to hold that boy down and feed him some worms.

The airframe comment was a little over the top, but performing
aerobatics in an airplane not designed for it certainly increases the
risk of causing irreparable airframe damage.

I think the person who turned him in to the FSDO, assuming it wasn't
just a bluff, did the most responsible thing of anyone here. It is very
important to police our ranks. This not only helps prevent accidents,
but it helps us all preserve our flight privileges and not have them
legislated away. Organizations that don't police themselves often find
someone else, usually a government bureacracy, more than willing to do
it for them. The latter is almost always a bad thing.

We aren't talking about turning someone in for making an honest mistake,
we're talking someone who knowingly and willingly violated the law and
then had the nerve to brag about it. This isn't the sort of person we
should desire to have in our ranks.


anyway, nw, why don't you just do what everybody else does; change
your name and come back in??

Not everyone else; just the cowards.

Matt