On off-topic topics.

[Bill Rogers]

I know that there are a lot of people with nothing else to do in their petty little lives, but why can't they understand that this is a forum for woodworking topics? Are they really that stupid that they can't understand that, or are they just of a nature [OK, rednecks] to not give a damn about anything except their 'right' to do as they please, hiding behind their keyboards?

This could be an excellent forum for discussion on topics related to woodworking, except that's its inundated with morons who can't make adult decisions. They also don't have the intelligence to start their own separate newsgroups, so I guess we'll just have to put up with them as we do with other infants.

Not to worry. The only people insulted by these comments are the ones they refer to, and it might take a day or two for them to realise that.

Bill.

[Frank Ketchum]

If it bothers you so much, get lost.

Sincerely, Frank

[Swingman]

I'd almost agree with you ... if it wasn't for the fact that among the many things worse than a thread marked "OT" is a moderator wannabe.

[Mark L.]

[Bill Rogers]

Well, OK, not quite a day or two.

Bill.

[Bill Rogers]

It's the B.S. off topic garbage that is coming from the trolls. They just hooked me, I guess. Check back a few posts to see that I don't usually send these messages, but have sent a lot of useful info ...if you can find it among the OT garbage that is.

Don't worry. If I was really a troll, I'd keep at it. I made this one mention, that's all, and I'm done. I just reserve the equal right to speak, if only once, on what is spoiling this otherwise excellent newsgroup with great people and great contributors. It's like a friggin fungus. It just keeps growing until it drowns out anything useful.

Now I'm done.

Bill.

[Bay Area Dave]

ahem, Bill? Methinks you are adding to the problem you are bitching about. No? I coulda swore you just added to the off topic thread count. I, OTOH, am not getting on a soapbox to complain about off topic postings. Just mentioning to YOU the irony of your post.

dave

Bill Rogers wrote:

[Swingman]

It may take him a day or two to realize it.

[Bay Area Dave]

I think he just got it, AAMOF! (judging from his recent response to another poster)

where you been?

dave

Sw>>bitching about.

[Bay Area Dave]

ignore my last question. I hadn't noticed you before this thread; I just now put the group in "Sender" order and see your name popping up all over the place; but in threads I haven't read.

dave

Sw>>bitching about.

[Woodchuck Bill]

Bill Rogers wrote in news: [e-mail]:

If ya don't like it in here, beat it!

[Bay Area Dave]

Follow your own advice, Upchuck.

dave

Woodchuck Bill wrote:

[Bay Area Dave]

I see you are stalking me again on rpd...

dave

Woodchuck Bill wrote:

[joey]

I think whats really sad/stupid is the OT political stuff or some guy wanting to opine as to what is a living trade is what seems to generate the most responses in this group.

[Woodchuck Bill]

Bay Area Dave wrote in news:jVzrc.2310$ [e-mail]:

Like what you're doing to George Preddy in RPD? Don't flatter yourself, Homer. I've been reading both of these groups for years. Then you pop up.

[brocpuffs]

Reminds me of a discussion group that got started back in my college days. Actually that was around 1990, call me a late bloomer :-)

Anyway, the topic of the new topic was:

"The Topic To Be Off The Topic Of"

It was popular till the moderator stepped on it. Killjoy.

James [e-mail]

[CW]

Good.

[Tom Veatch]

Well, Bill, as you have discovered, you can certainly reserve the right to speak out against the fungus (I like the simile, BTW), but it is seriously politically incorrect to exercise that right. Why, you might even be suspected of having mod***tor-like tendencies.

Tom Veatch Wichita, KS USA

[Charlie Self]

joey notes:

I'd have to go to google to check. It is a simple matter to add Election, Liberal, Conservative, Democrat, Republican, Bush, Cheney, Kerry et al to filters, as it is to add living trade and its author.

Charlie Self "Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

[Mike Richardson]

You seem to be a member of the group to which you yourself refer - and don't realise it...sigh.