Within three posts....

Totally agree!

Casey Wilson wrote:
....you people obliterated Hilton's message with a stream of off-topic
political blather.

How rude! It's no record, you've done it to the majority of topics raised
on this forum.

GET A LIFE!!!

TAKE IT TO A POLITICAL FORUM!!

GO FLY!!!

Sheesh....

"Marc CYBW" wrote

Amen

And I second that Amen. All in favor? ;-)
--
Jim in NC

Bob Noel wrote:

It's too bad that subthreads can't be filtered.

or are there newsreaders that can filter a subthread?

40tude's newsreader, called Dialog (which is what I use), can ignore
branches of threads with its Ignore key.

http://www.40tude.com/dialog/


--
Peter

"Peter Duniho" wrote

Then use a news reader that has a more flexible way to filter messages.

How? What newsreader? Enlighten us, please?

To expect the Usenet community to conform to YOUR desire is unreasonable.

No, it is you who are unreasonable. You, and others, need to use some self
discipline and restraint, and keep from going down those roads.

It is not just Casey's desire. There are many here who are tired of the
political hijacking, and religion too.

Thread drift is an inevitable fact of life on nearly every newsgroup.

It does not have to be inevitable. It's members can make it stop, by not
replying.

In a perfect world, every newsgroup would stay 100% on topic 100% of the
time. But then, in a perfect world we wouldn't have aircraft accidents to
make Hilton angry either.

She is angry about an aviation problem, not a political problem. Don't
change it to make everything political.

You've been around long enough to know that a
post like yours isn't going to accomplish a single thing.

Ahh, but one can hope, and one can surely voice their disapproval.
--
Jim in NC

I'll throw in a halleluiah.

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Marc CYBW" wrote

Amen

And I second that Amen. All in favor? ;-)
--
Jim in NC

What irony, the person guilty of thread hijacking is Larry (the
internet police) himself... Hey Larry! where you at buddy? You're on
trial here! Come defend yourself! :^)

"Peter R." wrote

40tude's newsreader, called Dialog (which is what I use), can ignore
branches of threads with its Ignore key.

True, but sometimes there is good stuff all mixed in with the garbage.

I usually killfile the biggest offenders, but even then, you have to read
their garbage in the next replied post, if it was quoted. I'm on my
once-in-a-while kick to open up the kill file, to take a look, and see if
everyone still deserves to be in there. It usually does not take too long
to identify the same old few, and return them to "bad graces."

It would be best yet if the garbage was just left out.

I know, tilting at windmills, and all. g
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:

True, but sometimes there is good stuff all mixed in with the garbage.

Hmmm, perhaps you understand the Ignore feature of the Dialog newsreader,
but in the even you missed it, here is a clarification:

In the case of the Angry thread, the political posts stayed in their own
"branch." 40tude Dialog allowed me to ignore the first post that spawned
that branch. From that point, only those posts in that thread that
referenced the first political post or its children were ignored. The
thread's good content of the other branches remained.

This feature is markedly different that OE's ignore, whereby OE will
ignores *all* posts of a thread you mark, not just the posts of a
particular thread branch. Clear as mud now?

--
Peter

"Morgans" wrote in message ...

"Marc CYBW" wrote

Amen

And I second that Amen. All in favor? ;-)
--
Jim in NC


Aye!

Hear hear!


On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:04:19 -0500, John wrote:

Peter Duniho wrote:

"Stubby" wrote in message
. ..
Blame the victum, eh.

Victim? Who's a victim here? How have they been victimized? What have
they lost? How have they been harmed?

The people who wanted to use this newsgroup to read/participate in a
discussion about piloting lose when the group becomes cluttered with
discussions/arguments/bickering about something else. It's similar to
opening your email expecting to find messages that are relevant to you but
instead find you've been spammed with dozens or more of useless crap. If
anything goes, then we might as well get rid of topical groups like
rec.aviation.Piloting.