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Another Usenet ruined by flaming and irrelevant postings
I am signing off for the next few months. I am sick and tired of
reading attacks on others, books for sale and totally irrelevant postings. See you in January, 2005. Art Layton Stamford CT |
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"Art Layton" wrote
I am signing off for the next few months. I am sick and tired of reading attacks on others, books for sale and totally irrelevant postings. See you in January, 2005. You have what psychologists term "grandiose thinking". If you want to avoid Usenet, do so by all means. Just don't think that anybody else cares a bit what you do or why you do it. -- RWF |
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"RWF" wrote in message
... "Art Layton" wrote You have what psychologists term "grandiose thinking". If you want to avoid Usenet, do so by all means. Just don't think that anybody else cares a bit what you do or why you do it. Pay no attention to that drivel. I care. "Grandiose thinking" is a virtue. If you think *no one* cares what you do, then you have a more serious problem. Not all newsgroups have fallen to this level. These guys say all Usenet is like this; consider why the ones these guys post on are indeed. And no, I'm not stupid enough to point out the once that are civil.. ---Mike |
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"Mike Berro" wrote
Pay no attention to that drivel. I care. "Grandiose thinking" is a virtue. "Grandiose thinking" normally accompanies the serious disease of bi-polar depression. If you think *no one* cares what you do, then you have a more serious problem. Try taking a reading comprehension class, clearly you have trouble understanding a simple English sentence. -- RWF |
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In article , "The Bookshop"
wrote: "Art Layton" wrote in message om... I am signing off for the next few months. I am sick and tired of reading attacks on others, books for sale and totally irrelevant postings. See you in January, 2005. Art Layton Stamford CT Would you like a little cheese to go along with your whine before you crawl away? Cheeze, how rude! Filters help a lot: I find that killfiling posters that annoy me and subject lines with "FA" go a long way to cutting down on the noise. I also have set filters for my favorite posters so their posts are marked to stand out and there is always something good to read. Avoid and mark read threads with "poopyhead" and the like in the subject line. If a thread starts annoying you, stop reading it and mark it read. Try some of these ideas for a couple days and see if it helps! -- PostScript http://www.livejournal.com/users/nixit/ |
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Every time I read a post such as this, Mr. Layton, I have
to ask its writer: exactly what have YOU done to improve this group other than fret about it? One key characteristic of Usenet is that posters have the ability to affect the level of discussion in a newsgroup. As a result, if you-the-reader decide that the posts in a newsgroup are not up to snuff in the intellectual or creative sense, then you-the-poster have the right--and, I would argue-- the ethical responsibility, to try, through your best efforts at thinking and writing, to lead the posters to a higher plane of discourse. Taking your marbles and going home, for a few months or permanently, will not help the situation at all and will only make you look like a whiny quitter. Mr. Palmer Room 314 I guess what I have tried to do is respond to postings when I thought my comments would have some value to other readers, or illuminate a point. Second, I have posted questions or issues looking for comments from other readers. Another usenet I used to participate in ended up with 99% of new posting being silly attacks on other writers or totally inappropriate postings. That site is dead, and no new posting have shown up there for about six months. I guess everyone else abandoned it, too. Art Layton (whiny quitter) Stamford CT |
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