I'm outta here

We have unseasonably warm weather in the San Juans now, if you are in the mood for some Jeeping instead. No one knows how long it will last...

Cheers,

Earle

television,

I hate to see someone leave, it just means the trolls have won....

Matt, please don't take this the wrong way but your problem is NOT the trolls, etc. your problem with the group is Outlook Express not being able to properly killfile and/or score file.

There ARE newsreaders that have the ability to completely clean up this group, I use Xnews, there are others and some of the best ones are free if you'd like to experiment.

You can go to news.software.readers and find out how to set up a scorefile that will kill all the crap in this group once you get a newsreader that will allow scoring.

Same here, hate to see someone leave. I view the discussions and post via google groups so I don=B4t get emails. This way the trolls don't bother me at all, I just read posts by names I recognize.

Same here, hate to see someone leave. I view the discussions and post via google groups so I don´t get emails. This way the trolls don't bother me at all, I just read posts by names I recognize.

I'm been gone for a year. Come back and it's still the same. I loved this news site - all kinds of info. Now I'm on forums - not so good.

Bye

I have Outlook Express and I don't have any problem whatsoever with blocking out the bottom feeders. Spdloader

I use outlook, never bothered to add these idiots to blocked list, but just did it, wow, what a difference in the looks of this group, almost every posting is from a different person instead of 25 each from 3 people.

Same here, hate to see someone leave. I view the discussions and post via google groups so I don´t get emails. This way the trolls don't bother me at all, I just read posts by names I recognize.

OK, I agree with all you say but it still seems to me like handing Bill a victory. I'll just remain and periodically insult his lack of intellect, he sees my posts and knows he can't reply so it's kind of fun..... It would be a bit unfair but consider he's single handedly ruined a good newsgroup and driven off some, if not most, of the better regulars he deserves any irritation I can give him!

The low point for me, and I've only been here a couple of weeks (but on usenet since 95) was the hijacking of the Remebrance Day thread but a person who claims to be a gung ho supporter of the armed forces.

Frankly, without the abuse, this group is all but dead. It might come back if the abuse stopped but so many have moved on, much like a number of other groups.

Web based forums (fora?) have taken over, much as I dislike that format, and it seems unlikely to be reversed.

True it helps to Block Senders - my problem is that I haven't blocked Bill yet (he *can* be a good resource and he is always available) - I certainly do feel Matt's pain - all the the, the, the - I can't think of one particular word that truly describes the catastrophe which has occurred here - but all the BS cross posting and name calling/ game playing is truly f*&# up.

I have received such positive and useful info here I just can't leave - heck I think I may have even helped a few - I just don't check here as often.... tis a sad sad event.

". . . be nice to each other " paul

He's wrong more than he's right.

That alone should tell you something.

I recommend we all gravitate to ramjaw.org.

I thought you said "I'm outta here"???????? God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

You could get rid of him and his girl friends any time you can get the sane members of the group will to simply always follow up to any of their posts and delete every letter they posted and replace it with your favorite nonsense rhymes.

Called doe snot, for "does not exist"

Similar to a usenet UDP, but requires restraint by enough of the humans to delete EVERYTHING including the occasional lucid posting until they go away or shape up.

I've seen it work on other groups, but if someone insists on following up to one of the lunatic fringe's threads, you have to doe snot them as well until they also get the point.

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:

absolutely nothing of interest, so for gosh sake do NOT follow up to him.

Kinda like one of your normal replies. God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

I'm with ya Matt.

Spdloader

Wow, Bill's program to save the group is really working well. Thanks, Bill.