I give up, after many, many years!

On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:16:42 -0700, Shirl
wrote:

Andrew Sarangan wrote:
I don't take seriously any posters who use handles instead
of their real names.

That's a little extreme, IMO ... I don't think a person should have to
use their real name to be taken seriously. Some people aren't
comfortable using their real names, and in many instances, with just
cause. I think it's more important how people conduct themselves than
whether or not they use their real names ... but ... to each, his own.

Whether we choose to consciously or not, it'd be a very rare person to
give the same weight to a post by someone behind a handle instead of a
name. Now if that person has been posting using that handle long
enough to establish an reputation they have become a known quantity.
OTOH Whether we want to or not it's difficult to add much credulence
to the first few posts form some one using a handle and particularly
so if they tend to be either extreme, or combative.

"Long ago" and I mean at least 5 or 6 years, I heard this group
described as a bunch of bitter old men, or pilots with little
tolerance.

I make no claim to always being right and I've received a few crackpot
e-mails and threats over the years using my real name, but I just
throw them in the round file.

Roger (K8RI) ARRL Life Member
N833R (World's oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:ihKVj.159873$yE1.40277@attbi_s21:

I give up -- not flying -- but subscribing to this NG.

Sorry to see you go, Jay. I've enjoyed your posts, and hope you can
make it to OSH this year.

I still find some utility in this group, but no longer recommend it to
new or aspiring pilots. I find myself spending more and more time on
moderated groups that don't tolerate anonymous trolls.


That's ecause you're intolerant. I can't stand that.


Check back from time to time. This, too, shall pass.


good one.


Bertie

Character, it's been said, is what you do when no one is watching.
These days on the 'net it's demonstrated in other ways. Oh well.




On May 11, 11:33 am, Jay Somerset wrote:
I give up -- not flying -- but subscribing to this NG. It is just too
riddled with crap and backbiting, to the point that it carries little
if any useful exchange of interest to active pilots. It isn't worth
the effort any more, even with multiple kill files.

So good riddance to 90+% of the posts, and the few idiots who have
managed to spoil the NG over the past couple of years, and farewell to
those few remaining sensible contributors. I admire your patience and
tolerance. Mine have given out!
--
Jay (remove dashes for legal email address)

Tina wrote in news:2cf9b37f-fa47-4e08-add7-
:

Character, it's been said, is what you do when no one is watching.
These days on the 'net it's demonstrated in other ways. Oh well.


I'm considered a bit of a character rl as well.....

Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
.. .
Tina wrote in news:2cf9b37f-fa47-4e08-add7-
:

Character, it's been said, is what you do when no one is watching.
These days on the 'net it's demonstrated in other ways. Oh well.


I'm considered a bit of a character rl as well.....

Bertie

That's because they were to gracious to say "piece of ****".

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in news:ZwnWj.42280$KJ1.25937
@newsfe19.lga:


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
.. .
Tina wrote in news:2cf9b37f-fa47-4e08-add7-
:

Character, it's been said, is what you do when no one is watching.
These days on the 'net it's demonstrated in other ways. Oh well.


I'm considered a bit of a character rl as well.....

Bertie

That's because they were to gracious to say "piece of ****".



Some say that, I'm sure. I don't really care. You can't please
everyone..

Do you actually think anything an idiot like you says bothers me, BTW?


Just wondering.

On May 11, 11:33 am, Jay Somerset wrote:
I give up -- not flying -- but subscribing to this NG. It is just too
riddled with crap and backbiting, to the point that it carries little
if any useful exchange of interest to active pilots. It isn't worth
the effort any more, even with multiple kill files.

So good riddance to 90+% of the posts, and the few idiots who have
managed to spoil the NG over the past couple of years, and farewell to
those few remaining sensible contributors. I admire your patience and
tolerance. Mine have given out!
--
Jay (remove dashes for legal email address)


I would encourage you to not give up. I don't find the extraneous
posts particularly distracting. It is easy to see which threads are
legit. Example: if you expand the recent thread on "Cessna 172R from
Telluride to Aspen" it is entirely dominated by MX and his groupies. I
don't even read past the titles and the poster names.

Hey, you just need a better newsreader. I use GNUS, part of GNU
Emacs. After screening out Jay Honeck and his homies, Bertie, and a
few others, 90% of the posts are gone and 95% of the junk.
--
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, forget
em', cause, man, they're gone.
- Jack Handey

Bob Fry wrote:
Hey, you just need a better newsreader. I use GNUS, part of GNU
Emacs. After screening out Jay Honeck and his homies, Bertie, and a
few others, 90% of the posts are gone and 95% of the junk.

And you're left with exactly, what?

Scott Skylane wrote:
Bob Fry wrote:
Hey, you just need a better newsreader. I use GNUS, part of GNU
Emacs. After screening out Jay Honeck and his homies, Bertie, and a
few others, 90% of the posts are gone and 95% of the junk.

And you're left with exactly, what?



The good stuff.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com