Adios to this NG

[Pechs1]

Until some of the BS thins out-
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

[J. McCartan]

"Pechs1" > wrote in message
...
> Until some of the BS thins out-
> P. C. Chisholm
> CDR, USN(ret.)
> Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye
Phlyer

Unfortunately - judging from other groups getting spammed - I don't think
that it will stop soon.

Don't deprive this group of your presence because of a few idiots.

Jim

[Mike Kanze]

Pechs,

Surgical application of the "blocked senders" function (or equivalent) in
your newsreader program will make things more palatable in the short run.
After a while the cross-posting idiots will tire of things and move on,
until the next eruption on the world scene.

--
Mike Kanze

"A centerpiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a
taxidermist."

- Martha Stewart's TIPS FOR REDNECKS


"Pechs1" > wrote in message
...
> Until some of the BS thins out-
> P. C. Chisholm
> CDR, USN(ret.)
> Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye
Phlyer

[Jim]

On Sat, 29 May 2004 09:57:59 -0700, "Mike Kanze"
> wrote:

>Pechs,
>
>Surgical application of the "blocked senders" function (or equivalent) in
>your newsreader program will make things more palatable in the short run.
>After a while the cross-posting idiots will tire of things and move on,
>until the next eruption on the world scene.

Well said. My Agent filters get used the most here as this is the one
newsgroup I care the most about.




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[Mike Weeks]

>From: "Mike Kanze"
>Date: 5/29/2004 09:57 Pacific Daylight Time

>Surgical application of the "blocked senders" function (or equivalent) in
>your newsreader program will make things more palatable in the short run.
>After a while the cross-posting idiots will tire of things and move on,
>until the next eruption on the world scene.

Unfortunately via AOL, it's the multiple cross-posted responses which are not
really managable to block -- w/o blocking each & every poster of that thread.
The easy part is blocking the initial poster(s), but not the follow-ups if RAMN
is included.

I just delete (as in clicking the "Mark Read" button) w/o reading any of the
threads which are in question. That takes very little time -- especially given
the low volume of this NG.

MW

[Mike Kanze]

Mike W.,

There's much that's therapeutic in the exercise of the DELETE key or its
equivalent.

>That takes very little time -- especially given the low volume of this NG.

Of course there have been times when even this NG has overflowed like a
clogged head.

One rule I've set up in my newsreader (Outlook Express) ****cans all
messages longer than 150 lines. For reasons quite obvious to regular
r.a.m.n readers, I've named this the "Johnny Wizard" rule. It has saved me
innumerable revisions to my Blocked Senders list. (In his prime Johnny
seemed to have a new Hotmail address for each day of the year.) And since
Johnny is incapable of succinct written communication, I've seen none of his
screeds since.

Cheers!

--
Mike Kanze

"Anything that screws its way into the sky flies according to unnatural
principles."

- Unknown pilot, speaking of helicopters


"Mike Weeks" > wrote in message
...
> [rest snipped]

[Yeff]

On 30 May 2004 18:58:00 GMT, Mike Weeks wrote:

> Unfortunately via AOL, it's the multiple cross-posted responses which are not
> really managable to block -- w/o blocking each & every poster of that thread.

You might want to consider signing up for a free Usenet account from
<http://news.individual.net/>. That way you can try out some of the more
powerful readers that have crosspost management while still connecting to
AOL.

I've long used news.individual.net as a backup to my ISP and recommend it
highly. You won't get access to binary groups through it but the text
group retention is great and they're very responsive to adding new groups.
You won't see any ads and they don't spam you for signing up either.

--

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

[Mike Weeks]

>From: "Mike Kanze"
>Date: 5/30/2004 12:55 Pacific Daylight Time

>There's much that's therapeutic in the exercise of the DELETE key or its
>equivalent.

Indeed there is!

>One rule I've set up in my newsreader (Outlook Express) ****cans all
>messages longer than 150 lines. ...

That's also a feature of AOL (it's by nbr of characters); For RAMN that's
indeed something which might be very useful.

MW

[Jeroen Wenting]

That will happen as soon as either the sun goes out or the communists win
the US presidential elections and ban US citizens from accessing the
internet and posting things that are contrary to government ideas.

The first should happen in a few billion years, the latter might happen next
autumn.

"Pechs1" > wrote in message
...
> Until some of the BS thins out-
> P. C. Chisholm
> CDR, USN(ret.)
> Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye
Phlyer

[Jim Carriere]

"Jeroen Wenting" > wrote in message
...
> That will happen as soon as either the sun goes out or the communists win
> the US presidential elections and ban US citizens from accessing the
> internet and posting things that are contrary to government ideas.
>
> The first should happen in a few billion years, the latter might happen
next
> autumn.

And this is on topic how?? Wait, it was a smartass thing to say, which
covers at least 99% of the people I know in the business.

Hey, your post gave me a good laugh :)

Staying on the topic of naval aviation, the 60th anniversary of Phil Sea
("Marianas Turkey Shoot") is right around the corner. Straying a bit, so is
D-Day.

Last, but not least, it is Memorial Day today in the US. Time to pause and
think of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in order that others enjoy
freedom.

[Bill Kambic]

"Jim Carriere" wrote in message

> Staying on the topic of naval aviation, the 60th anniversary of Phil Sea
> ("Marianas Turkey Shoot") is right around the corner.

Sounds like a reason for a party!<g>

Straying a bit, so is
> D-Day.

Not straying too far. IIRC we had a thread a while back about Naval
Aviators flying Spitfires and providing naval gunfire spotting services to
ships offshore.

> Last, but not least, it is Memorial Day today in the US. Time to pause
and
> think of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in order that others enjoy
> freedom.

Amen.

Bill Kambic

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