hielan' laddie wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:07:38 -0400, Ron Monroe wrote
(in article ):


It's not a question of downloading, or not. It's a question of going through
400 or 500 posts at a time, looking for something you really want to look
at. I don't want to spend hours, days and weeks putting together photos, and
then sorting them out. I have other things to do. So, I am looking for other
subjects. Think of it like getting a thousand pieces of junk mail in your
snail mail mailbox, but one of the pieces of mail, is actually a bill. You
have to go through all of them to find it, before you throw everything out.


It's not 400-500 _posts_. It may be 400-500 _parts of posts_, and those who
have inadequate newsreaders see them as 400-500 posts, but that's their
problem. Get an adequate newsreader.

For someone that tells others not to tell others what to do, you sure do
a good job yourself. Look in the window McBeth.

And there is absolutely no consideration for those who are asking not to
flood.


Nope. You're right. Now, if you look really, really, REALLY closely, you
might be able to detect exactly how much I care.

And with that attitude you reveal yourself as a very selfish person. No
doubt you have few friends with an attitude like yours.
Maybe a whisky bottle as a friend aye matey.....

It's like he is saying, "I don't care what you want, I'm going to
give you what I want, whether you like it or not." I still ask, if a few
people want them, why doesn't he send them to those people, directly? how
many are there, five? Oh, it might be inconvenient for him, or you, so, I
guess it's alright to do it this way, and make it inconvenient for everyone
else.


It's more than that, and email is _really_ inconvenient. But you know that.
Given a choice between inconveniencing me and inconveniencing you, I pick
you. You no like? Me no care.

Maybe the next highland storm will knock out your service forever. We
can only hope.

It seems that people always want to do what is convenient for themselves,
they don't care how it affects the other guy. Those other guys, are
"whining".


You are.

You don't whine. You just go on and on with your inconsiderate selfishness.

So, there is now a flood of people that are complaining. Well, you don't
have to download them, do you? Seems simple enough to me.


I think that you whingers are _funny_. I read your stuff 'cause it amuses me.
I reply for the same reason. My system automatically downloads the files I
want to download; I only have to scan through the newsgroup to see if there
was anything I hadn't set the system to download that I may have wanted. When
I do that, if I see some posts from a pack of whingers, I read 'em to see
what idiocy they've come up with this time. When you lot stop being funny,
I'll add an additional filter to my filter list, and killfilter each and
every text-only post from someone using MSOE that infests this group. Y'all
can then natter away to your heart's content, affecting me even less than you
do now.


"hielan' laddie" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:58:51 -0400, B. Hedd wrote
(in article ):


Lee wrote:


"B. Hedd" wrote in
:



What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?


Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

It's absolutely OK... What you put on your computer is your business.

I'm just curious as to what you do with them.



I go over older pix to look for differences and updates... you know, the
way
he stated he did but you snipped out without marking the snip.

"As example, just how many upgrades have been made to the shuttle cockpit
since the early 80's? Well, now I have photographic information."

Some of us are interested in the history of aviation in general and of
particular systems in particular.

I also go over pix looking for a particularly good shot and then use them
to
make various items, including but not limited to my own calendars and
other
hardcopy. (so I have pinups of Lancasters and Vulcans and Lightenings, the
latter including Lockheed, English Electric, and Mitsubishi products,
instead
of nekkid girls... sue me.)

J3's stuff will give me hours, days, weeks, worth of work to go through
and
sort out and catalogue and drop onto a DVD. After that, I'll be able to
find
any one of the pix in a matter of seconds.

But, hey, if you don't like 'em, don't download 'em. Seems simple enough
to
me.