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  #11  
Old December 27th 06, 07:51 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Peter Dohm
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I hope that everyone makes a new year's resolution, like, "I will not
make
ANY kind of response to mxmanic, at all, this year"


OK Jim, you're on : )

I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
I'm officially mute..

I try to do the same; but every now-and-then, the Devil taps me on the
shoulder and whispers: "Psst, hey, Pete, ... ".

I'll try harder--that's one of my New Year's resolutions.


  #12  
Old December 27th 06, 07:56 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Barney Rubble
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5 Hours ATL to SAT, boy that was a slow old turboprop.

- Barney

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
. ..
Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took
a people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely have
to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
particularly this time of year.

Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect
was due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with a
bunch of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.

It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of the
time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my
airplane.

So here I sit, grumpy on the couch.

KB



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Old December 27th 06, 08:34 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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Morgans wrote:
I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts asking individuals to not
reply (and you would think I was denying them of their constitutional
rights, or something), and blocking everyone who ever posted to him, and
blocking him.

Not a thing has made a difference, it seems.




You've got to be kidding. I nuked him and the more prolific of his responders
and my noise level has dropped dramatically.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

Mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com


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Old December 27th 06, 09:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Mxsmanic
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Peter Dohm writes:

It may seem incredible, for a bunch of macho men inclined to take the
controls, but some here had already suspected all of that.


A lot of people don't know that much about medicine.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
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Old December 27th 06, 09:09 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jose[_1_]
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I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts

Yes. IOW, you tried being annoying to the rest of the group.

Jose
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He who laughs, lasts.
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Old December 27th 06, 10:53 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Morgans[_5_]
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I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts

Yes. IOW, you tried being annoying to the rest of the group.


And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
there is a problem.
--
Jim in NC



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Old December 27th 06, 11:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Kyle Boatright
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"Barney Rubble" wrote in message
...
5 Hours ATL to SAT, boy that was a slow old turboprop.


Um, no, it was an MD-88. Which takes about 5 hours (counting ramp time) to
make an out and back from Atlanta to San Antonio and return.

KB

- Barney

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
. ..
Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took
a people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely
have to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
particularly this time of year.

Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect
was due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with
a bunch of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.

It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of
the time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my
airplane.

So here I sit, grumpy on the couch.

KB





  #18  
Old December 27th 06, 11:21 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jose[_1_]
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And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
there is a problem.


When there is a problem with posters I don't want to read, I put them on
my ignore list, without posting about it. If there are threads I don't
want to read, I do the same to the thread (this is most often the case
with spam threads). "Author is...", "Subject contains..." "Subject
starts with..." are useful filters, and I just have my newsreader mark
them as read. I don't see them unless I want to go back and look.

If everyone who felt that way silently did the same thing, there would
be no problem. Instead people make more noise =about= the noise, than
the noise itself.

And, the truth is, not everyone feels the same way about any individual
poster, and I for one am not compelled to =make= people feel the same way.

It is true that when people respond to a poster on my ignore list in a
thread that is not being ignored, I see the response. For some reason,
that doesn't bother me. (I usually skip to the response, skipping the
quoted text, since chances are good I have already read it or can infer
its content). I sometimes find that responses to an ignored poster are
in fact of interest to me, even if the original post is not.

Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end
of it.

Jose
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He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.
  #19  
Old December 27th 06, 11:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jose[_1_]
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I'll add to my reply that, in the case of some posters who have been
abandoned as hopeless, I have not actually found them to be so.

Jose
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He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.
  #20  
Old December 27th 06, 11:53 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Morgans[_5_]
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"Jose" wrote

Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end of
it.


Wake up and smell the coffee! You have to use your head, in this case, for
something other than a hat rack.
--
Jim in NC


 




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