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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http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

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

"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message
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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.

There is no way in this world Guy Chapman of England is ever going to ignore
me. He responds to my every post even though we have long stopped saying
anything to one another. That is the charisma of Ed Dolan.

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Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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.

"Mudflap" wrote in message
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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.

Many thanks for the very good post. Any more like this and ARBR will have
completely gone to the dogs.

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Regards,

Ed Dolan - Minnesota

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
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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

M wrote:

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!

Kill files are for people who lack the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile to them, and the self-control to ignore what they consider
useless.

--
Tom Sherman

Tom Sherman wrote:
M wrote:

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!


Kill files are for people who lack the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile to them, and the self-control to ignore what they consider
useless.

Kill files are for people who *have* the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile, and have automated the process. Just as some program their
televisions to skip over the channels that do not contain programming, they
will program their newsreaders to skip over those posters who offer little of
interest to them.

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Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney

Larry Varney wrote:

Tom Sherman wrote:

M wrote:

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!



Kill files are for people who lack the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile to them, and the self-control to ignore what they consider
useless.

Kill files are for people who *have* the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile, and have automated the process. Just as some program their
televisions to skip over the channels that do not contain programming,
they will program their newsreaders to skip over those posters who offer
little of interest to them.

Even Mr. Ed Dolan has something worthwhile to say on recumbent bicycles
0.1% of the time.

--
Tom Sherman

"Tom Sherman" wrote in message
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Larry Varney wrote:

Tom Sherman wrote:

M wrote:

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!



Kill files are for people who lack the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile to them, and the self-control to ignore what they consider
useless.

Kill files are for people who *have* the intelligence to sort what is
worthwhile, and have automated the process. Just as some program their
televisions to skip over the channels that do not contain programming,
they will program their newsreaders to skip over those posters who offer
little of interest to them.

Even Mr. Ed Dolan has something worthwhile to say on recumbent bicycles
0.1% of the time.


If someone puts a gun to my head and says "read this" I will read whatever
it is, but until that happens I will continue to read only what I choose to
read. I have difficulty whatsoever making my own reading choices.