One More Reason I Prefer GA

Morgans wrote:

I hope that everyone makes a new year's resolution, like, "I will not make
ANY kind of response to mxmanic, at all, this year"


OK Jim, you're on : )

I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
I'm officially mute..

"Kingfish" wrote

OK Jim, you're on : )

I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
I'm officially mute..

I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts asking individuals to not
reply (and you would think I was denying them of their constitutional
rights, or something), and blocking everyone who ever posted to him, and
blocking him.

Not a thing has made a difference, it seems.

Let's all urge everyone to be mute, like you, (thanks) no mater the need to
respond, and perhaps we can have a "non-contaminated" group by the new year.

I must be dreaming, though. g Some have no self control. :-(
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts asking individuals to not
reply (and you would think I was denying them of their constitutional
rights, or something), and blocking everyone who ever posted to him, and
blocking him.

Not a thing has made a difference, it seems.



You've got to be kidding. I nuked him and the more prolific of his responders
and my noise level has dropped dramatically.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

Mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts

Yes. IOW, you tried being annoying to the rest of the group.

Jose
--
He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts

Yes. IOW, you tried being annoying to the rest of the group.

And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
there is a problem.
--
Jim in NC

And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
there is a problem.

When there is a problem with posters I don't want to read, I put them on
my ignore list, without posting about it. If there are threads I don't
want to read, I do the same to the thread (this is most often the case
with spam threads). "Author is...", "Subject contains..." "Subject
starts with..." are useful filters, and I just have my newsreader mark
them as read. I don't see them unless I want to go back and look.

If everyone who felt that way silently did the same thing, there would
be no problem. Instead people make more noise =about= the noise, than
the noise itself.

And, the truth is, not everyone feels the same way about any individual
poster, and I for one am not compelled to =make= people feel the same way.

It is true that when people respond to a poster on my ignore list in a
thread that is not being ignored, I see the response. For some reason,
that doesn't bother me. (I usually skip to the response, skipping the
quoted text, since chances are good I have already read it or can infer
its content). I sometimes find that responses to an ignored poster are
in fact of interest to me, even if the original post is not.

Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end
of it.

Jose
--
He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

I'll add to my reply that, in the case of some posters who have been
abandoned as hopeless, I have not actually found them to be so.

Jose
--
He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Jose" wrote

Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end of
it.

Wake up and smell the coffee! You have to use your head, in this case, for
something other than a hat rack.
--
Jim in NC

I hope that everyone makes a new year's resolution, like, "I will not
make
ANY kind of response to mxmanic, at all, this year"


OK Jim, you're on : )

I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
I'm officially mute..

I try to do the same; but every now-and-then, the Devil taps me on the
shoulder and whispers: "Psst, hey, Pete, ... ".

I'll try harder--that's one of my New Year's resolutions.