On 2008-02-09, romeomike wrote:
By not being willing to simply ignore what you don't like, you miss the
good stuff. You have apparently killfiled not only Bertie but any
response to him. Therefore, you miss not only the knowledgeable stuff
that is posted under his nome de plume but the discussions he has with
the likes of Dudley H. and others you respect. Don't tell me that there
is no worthwhile content there. These people are conversing with him.
Besides you killfiled him, so you don't see it.

I'm not Jay H, but I'll reply to this:

Yes, I killfiled Bertie. (And all of his recent morphs to evade killfiles;
that's a really annoying trick that's against many providers' TOS.) It was a
balancing choice. Yes, I'm going to miss his good posts. I'm also going to
miss the aggravation of dealing with his (many more, IMAO) posts where he
quotes 150 lines of argument to add one line of insult. The tradeoff is, for
me, positive. I don't have enough time to put up with that crap.
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