Sure is easy to read this newsgroup!

"Terry" wrote in message
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Over the last month I've "kill filed" or "blocked sender" in IE express all
the obvious non-pilot posters. Troll posters AND troll feeders. Only about
10 people left!

I have been doing much the same for years, but the reduction in on-topic
activity is similar across all of the groups I read. For many reasons, the
Usenet has been steadily sickening and dying. The elimination of NNTP access
by most Internet providers is part of the reason, and the terrible spam that
Google chooses to allow via its abysmal Google Groups interface is another.
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Vaughn



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Nothing personal, but if you are posting through Google Groups I may not receive
your message. Google refuses to control the flood of spam messages originating
in their system, so on any given day I may or may not have Google blocked. Try
a real NNTP server & news reader program and you will never go back. All you
need is access to an NNTP server (AKA "news server") and a news reader program.
You probably already have a news reader program in your computer (Hint: Outlook
Express). Assuming that your Usenet needs are modest,
usehttp://www.eternal-september.org/ and/or, http://news.aioe.org/ and/or
https://www.x-privat.org/index.php for free. http://www.teranews.com/ charges a
one-time $3.95 setup fee. Newsguy,
http://www.newsguy.com/ offers a variety of reasonably priced services. If you
wish to experiment with real Usenet access, they will give you a free 2-day
trial account. http://www.cnntp.org/ provides vari

vaughn wrote:

"Terry" wrote in message
Over the last month I've "kill filed" or "blocked sender" in IE express all
the obvious non-pilot posters. Troll posters AND troll feeders. Only about
10 people left!

I have been doing much the same for years, but the reduction in on-topic
activity is similar across all of the groups I read. For many reasons, the
Usenet has been steadily sickening and dying. The elimination of NNTP access
by most Internet providers is part of the reason, and the terrible spam that
Google chooses to allow via its abysmal Google Groups interface is another.
--
-
Vaughn

No, it's the fact that you can buy a computer at the grocery store and need
no background using a computer - it's now an appliance. Which means those same
rude, ill-mannered people can now trash this electronic environment as
well as the real one.

Blanche writes:

No, it's the fact that you can buy a computer at the grocery store and need
no background using a computer - it's now an appliance. Which means those same
rude, ill-mannered people can now trash this electronic environment as
well as the real one.

Quite so, and unfortunate.

On May 5, 9:34*am, Blanche wrote:
No, it's the fact that you can buy a computer at the grocery store and need
no background using a computer - it's now an appliance. Which means those same
rude, ill-mannered people can now trash this electronic environment as
well as the real one.

I don't think it's a function of intelligence, per se.

It's more about people not having respect for the venue. And quite
honestly, I don't blame them.

On May 8, 3:20*am, XXXXX wrote:

It's more about people not having respect for the venue. And quite
honestly, I don't blame them.

And you're proud of this?

Modern times. No moral compass.

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On May 8, 7:13*am, Mark wrote:
On May 8, 3:20*am, XXXXX wrote:

It's more about people not having respect for the venue. And quite
honestly, I don't blame them.

And you're proud of this?

What makes you think I'm proud of anything? Even circa 2004 when this
forum was in it's "glory days" it was still a cesspit. Back then it
was a small group of pilots basically using the forum to further their
own mythology. The same occurs to this day, albeit with a few more
cusswords and a lot less aviation content.

Modern times. No moral compass.

Yes, making **** posts on a **** internet forum. No moral compass.
Analogous to murder.

On Sat, 8 May 2010 00:20:44 -0700 (PDT), XXXXX wrote:

On May 5, 9:34*am, Blanche wrote:
No, it's the fact that you can buy a computer at the grocery store and need
no background using a computer - it's now an appliance. Which means those same
rude, ill-mannered people can now trash this electronic environment as
well as the real one.

I don't think it's a function of intelligence, per se.

It's more about people not having respect for the venue. And quite
honestly, I don't blame them.

It's difficult to parlay a great deal of respect when the number one
poster/troll, fully supported by the participants in this newsgruppe,
is a sim pilot.
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http://tr.im/holj
Motto: Live To Spooge It!

On May 8, 12:56*pm, Ari wrote:
It's difficult to parlay a great deal of respect when the number one
poster/troll, fully supported by the participants in this newsgruppe,
is a sim pilot.

I agree, but I'd word it differently:

It's difficult to parlay a great deal of respect for a group when the
number one cause of conflict and off topic drivel amongst users is due
to the fact that the most prolific poster of on topic posts is
universally hated solely on the basis that he is a sim pilot.

On 05.05.10 03:16, Terry wrote:
Over the last month I've "kill filed" or "blocked sender" in IE
....
Sure is easy to read this newsgroup now and solely about "piloting"
which is after all, the name of this group!

And just to fill the gap, you post off-topic posts yourself now...