Other Forums

On Mar 1, 4:32 pm, Jose wrote:
Are there any private and/or moderated forums that are popular among
many of the posters to r.a.p.?

There are other forums, but many of them are just r.a.p in drag. They
provide a portal and advertisements, and serve up our posts.

Jose
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On Mar 1, 4:11 pm, "Marco Leon" wrote:
Are there any private and/or moderated forums that are popular among
many of the posters to r.a.p.? Maybe AOPA's forum?

I use Google for firewall reasons so I frustratingly do not have
filtering capability.

Marco

I've been on AOPA forums, which at least requires membership...

"Brad" wrote in message
ps.com...

I've been on AOPA forums, which at least requires membership...

That was my initial thought about possibly using a membership-only forum to
get rid of the riff raff but mx could easily join and get access. The fee
may make him miss a few meals however...

Marco

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:59:45 -0500, "Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com
wrote:

"Brad" wrote in message
ups.com...

I've been on AOPA forums, which at least requires membership...

That was my initial thought about possibly using a membership-only forum to
get rid of the riff raff but mx could easily join and get access. The fee
may make him miss a few meals however...

Private forum wouldn't need to be fee. You can deny membership and
access to anyone you want to deny membership and access to. If he
showed up it'd show in his postings almost immediately, disable
account, ban email address from registering. Or since it's unlikely
he has multiple Internet providers, it would be trivial to just
blackhole his subnet at the router or .htaccess and you wouldn't even
have any registration attempts, let alone posts.

Are there any private and/or moderated forums that are popular among
many of the posters to r.a.p.? Maybe AOPA's forum?

I use Google for firewall reasons so I frustratingly do not have
filtering capability.

Cherokee Pilots Association's "Cherokee Chat" and the Cherokee 235/236
groups are quite excellent, for the Cherokee Drivers in the group.
(Although they, too, have had their share of flame wars and trolls.)

I've looked at AOPA's stuff, and other smaller flying portals, but
none offer the wide range of experience and expertise that
rec.aviation does.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Are there any private and/or moderated forums that are popular among
many of the posters to r.a.p.? Maybe AOPA's forum?

I use Google for firewall reasons so I frustratingly do not have
filtering capability.

Cherokee Pilots Association's "Cherokee Chat" and the Cherokee 235/236
groups are quite excellent, for the Cherokee Drivers in the group.
(Although they, too, have had their share of flame wars and trolls.)

I've looked at AOPA's stuff, and other smaller flying portals, but
none offer the wide range of experience and expertise that
rec.aviation does.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Be it real or imagined...

Jay B

On Mar 1, 10:15 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Are there any private and/or moderated forums that are popular among
many of the posters to r.a.p.? Maybe AOPA's forum?

I use Google for firewall reasons so I frustratingly do not have
filtering capability.

Cherokee Pilots Association's "Cherokee Chat" and the Cherokee 235/236
groups are quite excellent, for the Cherokee Drivers in the group.
(Although they, too, have had their share of flame wars and trolls.)

I've looked at AOPA's stuff, and other smaller flying portals, but
none offer the wide range of experience and expertise that
rec.aviation does.

I get that feeling too when looking at the content of these other
forums. However, Peter informed me about the use of port 80 on a news
provider where I already have an account. Looks like I'm not going
anywhere just yet (you can cancel your appointment with your
therapist :-)).

I'm looking forward to some troll-free reading.

Marco

I'm looking forward to some troll-free reading.

Good deal -- but I'm curious how you will accomplish this feat, given
that "the troll" responds to virtually every thread.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
I'm looking forward to some troll-free reading.

Good deal -- but I'm curious how you will accomplish this feat, given
that "the troll" responds to virtually every thread.

This filter for Outlook Express marks his postings as ignored, and anything
from that branch on in that thread.

He no longer exists on my computer (Except the posts *ABOUT* him)

My 2/1 post:

I found the following completely eliminates mxsmanic from usenet, along with
any responses to him. Using this, I don't need to killfile anyone else. Only
responses to polluted threads are gone.

Tools - Message Rules - News - - New:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'mxsmanic'
Mark the message as ignored

View - Current View - Customize Current View:

View - Current View - Hide Read or Ignored Messages
View - Current View - Customize Current View

Un-check 'Where the message has been read'

Change the name to 'Hide Ignored Messages'


View - Current View - Make Sure 'Hide Ignored Messages' is checked.

"Jay Honeck"

Good deal -- but I'm curious how you will accomplish this feat, given
that "the troll" responds to virtually every thread.

I followed Steve Foley's instructions from a Feb 1st post and it worked
well. I did some comparisons from what showed up on Google versus the
filtered Outlook Express view and it only removed his posts within a
particular thread as well as any reponses to his "branch." The original post
remains along with almost all non-mx-related posts. I do however, see posts
that are about him or mention him in their posts.

I imagine that I would miss posts on his branch that have somehow switched
back on topic but that's probably a rare occurrence.

I'd say it was a 95% or more improvement over the non-filtered view.

Marco