Where do posters go?

Bottom line: This is a forum for highly literate people -- which is
extraordinarily rare.


I'm as cynical as the next guy (*cynic: n: an optomist who has met reality
unexpectedly") but that's over the top. This is most definately not a forum
for "highly literate" people. IT requires the ability to misspell,
misattribute, misunderstand, misbehave, and utterly mangle the English
language. It's filled with a bunch of maroons (and for the OS-challenged,
macaroons), and utter imbiciles who are totally incapable of appreciating the
pearls of wisdom dropping from our ruby red lips.

Anybody who can pound on a keyboard (vertantly, or inad) can do the Usenet
thing.

But it does require interest, and maybe they are just not interested. It's
like hangar flying. Nice, but I'd rather do the real thing. I won't buy
inability as the reason people don't come here.

Disinterest for many reasons, yes. But not inability. If you can read a
sectional or program a GPS, you have the smarts. (and if you can do both,
you're a dying breed g(

Jose

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"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:XZbyb.362668$Fm2.362602@attbi_s04:

Bottom line: This is a forum for highly literate people -- which is
extraordinarily rare.

Highly literate? Oh come now! Have you seen some of the posts we get on
here?!

On 2003-11-29 19:39:53 -0800, (Teacherjh) said:


Bottom line: This is a forum for highly literate people -- which is
extraordinarily rare.


IT requires the ability to misspell,
misattribute, misunderstand, misbehave, and utterly mangle the English
language. It's filled with a bunch of maroons (and for the OS-challenged,
macaroons), and utter imbiciles...

And with that, you would seem to have proven your point about spelling, eh?

On 2003-11-29 14:24:11 -0800, "James Blakely" said:

For example, a year or so ago, someone by the name of Tracey was asking
about questions about the medical. It seemed that she was on some sort of
medication that may have been a problem. She posted for a good 3 or 6
months and then nothing.

She quit flying for a couple of reasons. Last she posted here, she was thinking
about starting again. Nothing since, though.

Speaking for myself, I quit reading and posting to newsgroups a couple of months
ago. It just took too much time out of my day with no real benefit that I could find.
That, and I kept getting drawn into OT threads, and I hate when that happens.
Again, too much time, no real benefit.

I only recently started reading and posting again because I'm beta testing a
newsreader. Once the beta testing is done, I'll disappear again.

Judah writes:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:XZbyb.362668$Fm2.362602@attbi_s04:

Bottom line: This is a forum for highly literate people -- which is
extraordinarily rare.

Highly literate? Oh come now! Have you seen some of the posts we get on
here?!



Yes. Have you seen some of the memos that run around most offices?
The people here are pretty literate by modern standards.
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"James Blakely" wrote in message ...
I've noticed something interesting about the aviation newsgroups: posters
tend to disappear. I don't mean the posts getting lost, I mean that certain
people will post for a while and then just stop.


Life happens.......I'm currently working 60+ hours a week. Now tack on
that we just bought a home in a community with an airstrip and are
moving, designing and building a new shop, searching for some
equipment for the shop, working on the designs for our retirement home
in a different airstrip community in another state, trying to get any
work done on my three restoration projects and dealing with a three
year old son and helping my disabled wife with her needs....Kinda
limits the time that I have these days to participate in the groups
that I am active in. When the weather is really bad, or I'm down sick
is when I get to spend the most time reading and responding. When we
are shut down at work waiting on inspection or parts or have a timed
wait task, I can usually get a few minutes to read the groups.

Craig C.

"Larry Fransson" wrote in message
news:2003112920100843658%lfransson@comcastnet...

Speaking for myself, I quit reading and posting to newsgroups a couple of
months
ago. It just took too much time out of my day with no real benefit that I
could find.

There's a lot of truth to that.

In article 2003112920100843658%lfransson@comcastnet, Larry Fransson
wrote:

I only recently started reading and posting again because I'm beta
testing a
newsreader. Once the beta testing is done, I'll disappear again.

and now your posts are appearing to be "better formatted" in terms
of wrapping (btw)

--
Bob Noel

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:11:18 -0600, "Dan Luke"
wrote in Message-Id:
:

Even setting up a reader in their AOL
accounts is beyond most of them.

It is that aspect of usenet that tends to raise the newsgroup signal
to noise ratio. I see the requisite knowledge to provide the
news-reader client software with an nntp server address as sort of a
flitter of the inept.

"Larry Fransson" wrote:
Speaking for myself, I quit reading and posting to newsgroups a couple
of
months ago. It just took too much time out of my day with no real
benefit
that I could find.

Gotta disagree with you there, Larry. I believe I get tremendous benefit
from r.a.*, and not just from the things I learn about flying. The
opportunity to converse with such a disparate group of characters is a
great gift I could not receive any other way. In a way, I consider many
of the people here friends, and that certainly makes usenet worthwhile.

I only recently started reading and posting again because I'm beta
testing a newsreader. Once the beta testing is done, I'll
disappear again.

I hope you'll stick around. I appreciate the experience evident in your
posts.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM