Curious -- Why Do You Continue To Stay With ARBR
 

I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a
"usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few
months.

Slow Joe Recumbo

On 11 Nov 2004 05:24:40 -0800, (Joe Keenan)
wrote:

I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a
"usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few
months.

Because I vastly prefer Usenet to web forums, and putting Ed on
auto-ignore makes ARBR bearable.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Joe Keenan wrote:
I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a
"usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few
months.

Slow Joe Recumbo
MR ED has a very large part of this group under his complete control and
most are unaware of that fact. I filtered him by my 3rd day here but
others are obsessed by him so we have to get his crap 2nd hand.

I'm staying with this group as an experiment. I want to see how many people
I have to put in the kill file before it becomes a group about recumbent
bikes again. Anyone who responds to Dolan is in my kill file. Now I can
read this group in five minutes and most of what I read is about recumbent
bikes. To all of you "on topic" people, thank you for all the good info.
To all of you "off topic" people, see ya!

Mike in Kalamazoo

"Joe Keenan" wrote in message
...
I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a
"usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few
months.

Slow Joe Recumbo

"Joe Keenan" wrote in message
...
I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a
"usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few
months.

Slow Joe Recumbo

Joe....

Just think of it as a "Reality-Show" that is far more entertaining than
most of those on TV.

jd

It used to be my favorite and I'm waiting ... and patient. I have outwaited
and outwitted most disruptors.


"Joe Keenan" wrote in message
...
I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination. (I'm being kind) Yup, I'm a
"usta be" and just stopped in to see if things had changed in a few
months.

Slow Joe Recumbo

the "REAL" reason to stay here is that you "CAN'T get "BANNED" from here like
someone does from his serious income making board.
and you know who that i'm talking about,now don't you?

Cause here I can tell the sycophants and stepford wives to **** off and not
worry about an anal retentive site manager go ballistic protecting his
future bread and butter. It's called freedom of speech!
"Guess Who I Am" wrote in message
...
the "REAL" reason to stay here is that you "CAN'T get "BANNED" from here
like
someone does from his serious income making board.
and you know who that i'm talking about,now don't you?

Because with a decent, threaded newsreader (Mozilla Thunderbird), it's
very easy to separate the wheat from the chaff, and read the stuff that
interests me. Having "grown up" net-wise on rn, I prefer usenet to
web-based discussions.

--
Mark Chandler
Superior, CO
http://www.MileHighSkates.com

Joe Keenan wrote:

I'm curious why folks stay with this newsgroup given that any thread
is immediately subject to contamination.

1. Reading and writing via a proper newsreader is for me far more
comfortable than via any browser

2. I prefer to be my own moderator who decides what I'm able to write
and to read. It's not only freedom of speech, it's also freedom of
choice.

3. It's simply one alternative to all the other boards and groups I'm
reading and I'm not intending to give it up completely.

4. If you don't expose yourself to the downs of a group, you can't enjoy
the ups entirely. ;-)

Kurt, who likes diversitiy not only in bicycles