Shirl wrote in news:Xmnushal8y-
:

Jay Somerset wrote:
I give up -- not flying -- but subscribing to this NG. It is just
too
riddled with crap and backbiting, to the point that it carries little
if any useful exchange of interest to active pilots. It isn't worth
the effort any more, even with multiple kill files.

So good riddance to 90+% of the posts, and the few idiots who have
managed to spoil the NG over the past couple of years, and farewell
to
those few remaining sensible contributors. I admire your patience
and
tolerance. Mine have given out!

I agree with your sentiments. I haven't posted often and am, in the
big
picture, a relatively "new" pilot (licensed in 2003). I have been
appreciative over the years -- the group has offered some
thought-provoking topics that resulted in RL discussions, exchange of
opinions/experiences, and ultimately some very useful knowledge.

It had been easy to spot and ignore the "crap and backbiting". On my
newsreader, I see the number of posts first, and I always think,
"great...lots of new, interesting material" ... until the actual
*list*
of topics comes up, and of late it's easy to see that 95% are a couple
of people exchanging insults ad nauseam. A few who actually have some
useful info won't quit unless they have the last word, so there are 50
exchanges of one-line name-calling insults. After the first one,
what's
the point?


It's a zen thing.

Kinda like the story where the master whacks the student's finger off?

I reckon that Maxie banging his head endlessly against the wall will
eventually enlighten him to something, if not the ultimate truth.

And if not, he's just plain funny.


So now the useful stuff to people who are still interested in coming
here to learn something or to share something is BURIED. I agree with
you about feeling that it's not worth the effort sometimes.

Well, i;m not posting much of interest these days anyway, unless you
enjoy Maxie fjukking hissef over as much as I do., so just killfile me
for th etime being and most everything else should fall into place.

I don't think you'd miss too much killfiling Maxie either. Even when
he's on topic he's pretty useless IMO


Bertie