Completely off topic, sorry

You need to a) ignore them and b) have sufficient traffic that they don't dominate. Then they'll get bored and go away.

cheers, clive

Seconded. They end up talking to themselves for a while until they get fed up. Creating a filter/rule is the easiest.

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Blanking them is a good start. As soon as the touch off you add them to your killfile. They're only in it for the audience participation - so don't participate.

Caravanners seem to be a much maligned group of people. People like Clarkson don't help much with their petty whinging about being stuck behind caravans on the A-whatever to Cornwall and my guess is that a lot of the trolls you mention are also anti-caravan, hence the reason why those news groups are particularly targeted.

Just killfile and ignore them.

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Only what many of 'em deserve. I could count on the feet of one leg the number of caravans who paused to allow strings up 20 or so cars to pass while driving in Wales this summer. I'd need a millipede to count the number of times they didn't.

Sad isn't it? I'm afraid it's just one of the reasons I don't use that group any more. There are a lot of idiots who seem to see caravanners as an easy target.

Those are not "real" caravanners, they are holidaymakers who in general only use the 'van once a year and have woefully underpowered towing vehicles. Real caravanners have towcars with enough muscle to cope and rarely hold up other drivers; it's more likely to be some idiot in front of the caravannner.

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Doesn't change the effect though. I go to Wales and I end up stuck in a long tail of cars behind a caravan doing 40 up hill, down dale and through the villages where it's 30mph. Those of us who're thorougly fed up with the whole business care not for the finer distinctions of "real" caravanists and "holiday" caravanists since it doesn't change how stuck behind them we are.

Steptoe wrote on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:26:18 -0000:

2) ignore them.

Yes I do sympathise, but unfortunately the Muppets with a tow bar and caravan spoil it for everybody.

I recall partaking in a test of the Volvo V70 2.5 TDI towing a caravan and deliberately not holding up traffic. :)

Aye it's frustrating.

Ignoring. Or if you like I'll keep 'em busy for a bit? :)

Oh dear, no magic solution then, obviously I don't respond and I will have to look on kilfiling as another of those neccessary chores related to owning a computer.

As I seem to have stirred up a little controversy, I should say that I have never towed anything other than a small trailer so can't defend the caravanning fraternity, but I do drive a motorhome. In our defence I will say we try not to hold folks up unnecessarily, but the weight of up to 3 1/2 tons of vehicle has to be taken into account.

I am especially cautious when weather or road conditions preclude a quick stop, after all no-one would want me running into them.

You and I both. The Ka suffers from "small car syndrome," with a double dose of "it can't be going that fast" and "heh I'll pull out in front he's not going fast" too. :-(

Amazing how fast pedals can propel you. :-)