Porquer Torquer wrote in message ...

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Maybe you should quit trying to be such an uptight control freak and do
what everyone else does--ignore or killfile the obvious flamage and get
on with your life.

Like it or not, unmoderated newsgroups are conversation. And when people
start conversing, the subject matter is going to meander. There's going
to be stuff spilling over the sides and making a mess. Step over the
yucky parts and keep going.

Whining about it sure isn't going to change anything. People have been
carping about OT posts in every newsgroup (except maybe alt.tasteless)
since time began (Jan 1, 1970).

And since this is a recumbent newsgroup, your subject line should read:
"ARBR is really going UPHILL"


Porquer Torquer, where have you been all my life? At last someone is
saying something sensible about OT and how human conversation works.
That is all posting is, it is just conversation back and forth between
two individuals that others can get in on whenever and wherever they
want. And then it can branch off into totally unexpected directions
and end up in the oddest of places. Just like in real life! I have
never posted anything that others did not respond to in a way that I
could not have predicted. That is why a newsgroup is endlessly
fascinating.

Ed Dolan - Minnesota