Especially from "He who used to be B.A.D". He has cleaned up his act a bit...
scott
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Congratulations, folks!
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I tend to agree. If your filter caught the 50%, other than as a statistic, what's the big deal? Then to follow with "see you in 2005" which apparently means you won't be posting, etc. for a bit also doesn't make sense.
This is the INTERNET way folks. Is now, has been and will be forever. You have to deal with the trolls, etc. as you see fit. Personally, I don't mind wading through a bit of crap to get to some of the more interesting threads on the wreck.
If you don't let it get to you and just hit the delete key, you'll feel a whole lot better.
Of course, as always, this is just MHO,
Vic
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Lad, somehow you must of missed the bit of my post where I used the word "filters".
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The number of interesting threads is declining rapidly...
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In about 6 hours since you posted this thread, there are 22 responses on my machine (I'm pretty frequent with the PLONK) there may be more for other folks... and 6 of them are from you. So, you made a major contribution to the crap you complained about. Thought you were leaving?
Jack
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Might want to change that to 2006. Because on Nov.3,2004 who ever lost will be bitching that they got screwed.
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To wit, this one.
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Then why not just go and BUILD something?!! lol
Have a nice one...
Trent
Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
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He who used to be BAD, is who now?
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Where I did I say that?
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But ya just can't help yourself, can ya?
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Go up a couple in the thread. Now known as "David".
scott
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And they'll wait for the Supreme Court to rule on Colorado.
Have a nice one...
Trent
Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
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If they're being caught by the filters, what's the big deal?
todd
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Who made a big deal out of it?
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Just counted for the last couple of days - 420 essentially on-topic posts, 80 political or obscene. That works out to about 19%.
The S/N ratio in here is still pretty good.
Tim Douglass
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Dave, I'd say that many more people reading your post agree with your sentiment than disagree but that's probably not true since most wreckers interested in discussing woodworking have moved on to greener pastures.
I don't see it improving period. Usenet was a great experiment but it's time has come and gone. As sad as it is, r.w. is pretty good relative to other groups but it's catching up pretty fast.
Cheers, Mike
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You might try joining a moderated mail group, Mike. I think they're the wave of the future. There's almost instantaneous response...and the unwanteds simply get booted.
Have a nice one...
Trent
Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
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I participate in a few other woodworking discussion groups that are quasi-moderated. By that I mean, when a discussion degrades to pointless bickering (or well-before that stage), one of the moderators asks them to cool it and that is usually enough. If people in here would stop responding to the FL Patriot troll, the noise level in here would drop drastically. Extend that practice to avoid Tom W.'s on-line breakdown and the noise would be _very_ tolerable.
Thanks, trying my best.
Cheers, Mike
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Hmm! I like that idea. I think I'll start one called "rec.woodworking.all-ages". :)