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I'd never seen this before
"Morgans" wrote in message ... "John Mazor" wrote At least some of us love the random tidbits of information that can surface here, especially when the conversation wanders a bit. Good post, thanks. Yes, the tidbits are nice, but the cost is so high, don't you think? Would it be possible to agree that the twit has been shown as foolish and ignorant as needs be for the current time, and let him have the inevitable last word on this subject? It would be nice to move on without him in any of the discussions on the subject, and try to ignore him and his irrelevant comments for a while, perhaps? Just a thought to consider, I thought. -- Jim in NC Well, in addition to the random factoids, some of us get entertainment value out of whacking the loons. That's not something you'd necessarily be proud to own up to - maybe on a par with admitting that you eat ice cream right out of the box - but it's harmless fun. Besides, people like Anthony wouldn't stop mouthing off even if he got zero responses so why not exercise your debating skills in the cause of keeping the record straight? Just because a newsgroup has "aviation" in the name doesn't give the serious, aviation-minded participants proprietary ownership over the channel. Stick with moderated groups if you want that. Trying to police an open newsgroup is like it used to be trying to keep the motormouths and goofballs off Channel 19 in the heyday of CB radio. The Internet, like CB, is a permanent open mike for anyone and everyone. UseNet has one advantage over CB in that you always can killfile whomever you don't like, although in 24 years on the Internet I've never killfiled anyone. I learned to live with it by becoming adept at skimming the posts and skipping anything I don't want. In a perfect world we wouldn't even have to have this conversation, but in a perfect world I'd be as rich as Bill Gates, as handsome as Pierce Brosnan (okay, at my age I'll settle for Sean Connery) and between the babes and the high life I wouldn't even have time to be posting here. I think most of us agree with you in principle, but remember that constant, useless railing against human nature also degrades the signal-to-noise ratio. |
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