An Open Apology to R.A.P.

I sat in the shadows for a long time attempting to ignore the resident
troll, hoping against all odds that he would go away. When I could no longer
restrain myself, I started feeding the troll against my better judgement.
It is apparent that I have done nothing constructive in that regard and,
in my attempts, have probably offended a number of you whom I consider to be
excellent aviators, if not going as far as alienating some of you as well.
I earned my PP ASEL in 1975 and have never stopped learning. Along the
way, I have written more than a few aviation related articles published in
both regional and national magazines. I've made my bones and I've earned my
airman's title and the right to comment on matters of aviation - when I have
something to contribute or need your learned experience. It simply galls me
that someone like Mxsmanic can violate our treasured status day in and day
out and continue to survive, even thrive.

I realized today that I have been recently scanning down through the
posts on R.A.P. not to learn something new, but instead to find out what
kind of spew the troll is serving up. I feel I owe the rest of my real
flying colleagues an apology. For that reason and that reason alone, I am
going to retire from the newsgroup. My biggest regret is that Msxmanic will
undoubtedly, in his maniacal way, gloat over having won.

With apologies and regrets,

Casey Wilson
PP ASEL
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

P.S. - Mxsmanic is NOT a pilot, has NEVER flown an aircraft and is NOT
qualified to
issue competent information regarding any aspect of the operation of any
aircraft.

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
news:s5xzh.614$hp4.248@trnddc02...
I sat in the shadows for a long time attempting to ignore the resident
troll, hoping against all odds that he would go away. When I could no
longer restrain myself, I started feeding the troll against my better
judgement.

No apology required. There's very little left here worth reading anyway.

On 2/10/2007 11:38:49 PM, "Casey Wilson" wrote:

when I have
something to contribute or need your learned experience. It simply galls me
that someone like Mxsmanic can violate our treasured status day in and day
out and continue to survive, even thrive.

Get yourself a newsreader that has powerful filtering, such as one that
deletes author and any posts with that author in the reference field (the
branch of a thread spawned by the author) and you will NEVER again see said
author or replies to it.

I have moved onto NewsMan Pro, which does this perfectly but is a payware
product sure to turn off many. Others here attest to Outlook Express'
advanced filtering, although the fact that OE renders HTML should give one
pause. In any case, you owe it to yourself if you desire to forever be
liberated.

FWIW...

--
Peter

Recently, Peter R. posted:

I have moved onto NewsMan Pro, which does this perfectly but is a
payware product sure to turn off many. Others here attest to Outlook
Express' advanced filtering, although the fact that OE renders HTML
should give one pause.

OE renders HTML if the user retains that parameter (it is the default
setting). If set to "plain text", HTML is eliminated.

Neil

With apologies and regrets,

No apology necessary Casey. I hope you reconsider dropping off as I've
always enjoyed reading your posts. Still, if enough is enough for you
then here's to wishing you blue skies and a nice tailwind. Keep flying
and writing.

While it can be hard to ignore the troll fodder of which you speak, a
simple press of the 'k' key in Thunderbird takes care of such threads
for me. Now, if I could just do so for sub-threads, that would be even
better.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

"Casey Wilson" wrote:
I realized today that I have been recently scanning down through the
posts on R.A.P. not to learn something new, but instead to find out
what kind of spew the troll is serving up. I feel I owe the rest of my
real flying colleagues an apology. For that reason and that reason
alone, I am going to retire from the newsgroup. My biggest regret is
that Msxmanic will undoubtedly, in his maniacal way, gloat over having
won.

Rats.

I hope to get a pilot certificate soon and would appreciate it if not all
the qualified people not be run off this group. I don't claim to speak for
others in my situation, but I'd hazard a guess I'm not alone in that worry.

Jim Logajan wrote:
Rats.

I hope to get a pilot certificate soon and would appreciate it if not all
the qualified people not be run off this group. I don't claim to speak for
others in my situation, but I'd hazard a guess I'm not alone in that worry.

Some of us just lurk most of the time. I've been flying for 19 years,
though I don't have that many hours in my logbooks. I'm a weekend pilot
and I plan my flying accordingly. There are quite a few with more
experience than I have, and faster typing fingers too. I'll chime in if
I see someone steering a newbie in a clearly wrong direction.

However, I'm also selective with the threads I read. Most of them are
repetitive. After a while, you can just tell where threads are going...

Jake Brodsky
PP ASEL IA
Cessna Cardinal N30946 @ FME

("Jake Brodsky" wrote)
Cessna Cardinal N30946 @ FME


http://www.airnav.com/airport/KFME
(FME) Tipton Airport
Fort Meade (Odenton), Maryland, USA

Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD are less than 40 miles apart. FME (Fort
Meade) is on a line between those two cities.


Montblack :-)

On Feb 11, 1:44 am, Jim Logajan wrote:
"Casey Wilson" wrote:
I realized today that I have been recently scanning down through the
posts on R.A.P. not to learn something new, but instead to find out
what kind of spew the troll is serving up. I feel I owe the rest of my
real flying colleagues an apology. For that reason and that reason
alone, I am going to retire from the newsgroup. My biggest regret is
that Msxmanic will undoubtedly, in his maniacal way, gloat over having
won.

Rats.

I hope to get a pilot certificate soon and would appreciate it if not all
the qualified people not be run off this group. I don't claim to speak for
others in my situation, but I'd hazard a guess I'm not alone in that worry.

Seconded.
I can't seem to find enough resources to fly, but slowly and surely
i'm hoping to get there. At least reading here i'm getting some info
that's not in the AIM... and some interesting stories also.

("Casey Wilson" wrote)
I realized today that I have been recently scanning down through the posts
on R.A.P. not to learn something new, but instead to find out what kind of
spew the troll is serving up. I feel I owe the rest of my real flying
colleagues an apology. For that reason and that reason alone, I am going
to retire from the newsgroup. My biggest regret is that Msxmanic will
undoubtedly, in his maniacal way, gloat over having won.

With apologies and regrets,


I don't get the swan dive?

I really don't.


Montblack
I have arrow keys and a mouse that scrolls...