More questions on VFR flight following.

"John Mazor" wrote in
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Attempts to rein in the off-topic posts in UseNet are doomed to
failure and in fact only contribute to the static noise. Your
options are to drop out, start to killfile (which is only partially
effective) or learn how to skip over the threads and/or posters that
don't interest you.

I don't think either of us is talking about off-topic posts. Steven
is complaining about posts from/to a specific user (MX), while I am
chiming in that it's not the poster that is the problem. Rather,
it's the guys who obsessively and reflexively respond to MX's posts
with abusive, ever-less-original insults that have so polluted the
group.

Mine isn't a complaint about off-topic posts at all. Rather, it's a
complaint against personal attacks on others in the group. Huge
difference.

Okay, fair enough - but my advice still is relevant and stands as is.

And as has been noted, how is the commercial promotion of your motel
in your sig germane to legitimate aviation topics, other than that
you may snag some pilots as guests?

My signature line has remained unchanged since we opened 5+ years ago
-- with large heapings of help from folks in this very newsgroup, I
might add. In it you will find links to my home page, with photos,
videos, and (*gasp*) even my real phone number and email address!

Then why not just put in direct links to anything related to aviation?
Why the sales job?

This same sig line goes on ever correspondence I send (well, okay,
minus the airplane "N" number), whether it's here, on email or snail
mail. If you choose to think of it as promotional, so be it -- I
prefer to think of it as "real" -- and this group would be a
damn-sight better off if everyone so clearly identified themselves.

So repeating the same offense over time and locations makes it
acceptable? So anyone who has something to sell to to the group
should feel free to put his marketing website in his sig? Sorry, but
that carries more than a faint whiff of shameless self-promotion.

If it were a non-profit website devoted to aviation interests, that
would be a different matter. And quite honestly, I don't think we'd
be having this conversation if you weren't one of the ones complaining
about content.





Yer wasting yer time on this one, John. Self promotion is the ONLY
reason he's here.


Bertie