Please stop replying to the helmet poll

It's messing up my newsreader.

Tony Raven said:

Your newsreader's already messed up. Get a decent one ;-)

Thanks Tony.

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

It's also pointless, since it is missing most of the accurate answers
for this group. Should be more along the lines of: Always / Sometimes
/ Rarely / Never.

I might put up a web poll if I could be arsed.

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

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

Then you need Thunderbird 😉

Quoted message said:

It's also pointless, since it is missing most of the accurate answers
for this group. Should be more along the lines of: Always / Sometimes
/ Rarely / Never.

And needs answers based on type of riding - How wmany No's would be
Sometimes if they rode off-road?

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

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by treading on the toes of giants.
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Succorso said:

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

Then you need Thunderbird 😉

.... or almost anything that isn't OE.

"Paul Rudin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Succorso said:

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

Then you need Thunderbird 😉

... or almost anything that isn't OE.

I'm using OE and it hasn't messed up my newsreader - all the threads are
correctly displayed, even with the change of subject header.

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

Speaking of stuff that messes up newsreaders, is it just MacSoup that
has problems with posts made via cyclingforums?

Most of them show up devoid of any kind of line breaks or proper
quoting, and many seem to start new threads for no apparent reason -
there was one thread recently broken up into about five or six sections,
each starting with a cyclingforums post. I'm curious to know if the duff
formatting originates from cyclingforums or Soup...

--
Carol
"I was just being a little teapot. It's a bad habit of mine"
- Wyvern, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:21:21 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)

Quoted message said:

Speaking of stuff that messes up newsreaders, is it just MacSoup that
has problems with posts made via cyclingforums?

No, the problem is at the input end - GIGO.

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

Just zis Guy said:

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:21:21 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)

Quoted message said:

Speaking of stuff that messes up newsreaders, is it just MacSoup that
has problems with posts made via cyclingforums?

No, the problem is at the input end - GIGO.

Thanks Guy - nice to know it's not just me being quirky :-)

I'm afraid I mostly skip over those posts as it's too much effort to
untangle them.

--
Carol
"I was just being a little teapot. It's a bad habit of mine"
- Wyvern, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:10:27 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Speaking of stuff that messes up newsreaders, is it just MacSoup that
has problems with posts made via cyclingforums?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

No, the problem is at the input end - GIGO.

Quoted message said:

Thanks Guy - nice to know it's not just me being quirky :-)

I was referring more to the content than the broken threading
thobut...

Quoted message said:

I'm afraid I mostly skip over those posts as it's too much effort to
untangle them.

SWIM?

Yes, cyclingforums does break threading as well, but maybe due to user
cluelessness.

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

Just zis Guy said:

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:10:27 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

>Speaking of stuff that messes up newsreaders, is it just MacSoup that
>has problems with posts made via cyclingforums?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

No, the problem is at the input end - GIGO.

Quoted message said:

Thanks Guy - nice to know it's not just me being quirky :-)

I was referring more to the content than the broken threading
thobut...

So was I with the following bit.

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Quoted message said:

I'm afraid I mostly skip over those posts as it's too much effort to
untangle them.

SWIM?

Sorry Guy, I have no clue what that means. Rob's the techie one in our
house :-)

Quoted message said:

Yes, cyclingforums does break threading as well, but maybe due to user
cluelessness.

The broken threading is just slightly odd and I can cope with it - it's
the post as one wodge of text with no hints of who wrote what that I CBA
to read.

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Carol
"I was just being a little teapot. It's a bad habit of mine"
- Wyvern, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).

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Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

:-)

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Dave...

Paul Rudin said:

... or almost anything that isn't OE.

Google Groups is the worst affected. What a mess.

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:27:51 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)

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Quoted message said:

SWIM?

Quoted message said:

Sorry Guy, I have no clue what that means. Rob's the techie one in our
house :-)

"See What I Mean"

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

Carol Hague popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on
and said

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Simonb <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

I am using OE the H*lm*t poll is not messing up my newsreader

Quoted message said:

I'm curious to
know if the duff formatting originates from cyclingforums or Soup...

I have NEVER posted from cycling forums, of course there
may be more than one going by the nym of Soup. :o)

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Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

you know? said:

Simonb said:

It's messing up my newsreader.

It's also pointless, since it is missing most of the accurate answers
for this group. Should be more along the lines of: Always / Sometimes
/ Rarely / Never.

You could change the question to get a yes/no answer.

**When cycling do you usually wear a helmet?**

Those who *always* wear a helmet would have to answer no, so the
benefit of such a poll would be limited.

=======================

Today I ran a *hands up* poll today with 240 seven to eleven year old
school children.

How do you usually get to school?
walking - about 50%
car - about 33%
bus - about 20 children
bicycle - 3 children
train - 0 children

How many of you always travel to school by car? 10%.

Reducing the number of cars at our 470 pupil school to an average of
about 50 daily should be an achievable goal.

Gonzalez said:

Today I ran a *hands up* poll today with 240 seven to eleven year old
school children.

How do you usually get to school?
walking - about 50%
car - about 33%
bus - about 20 children
bicycle - 3 children
train - 0 children

How many of you always travel to school by car? 10%.

Reducing the number of cars at our 470 pupil school to an average of
about 50 daily should be an achievable goal.

The figures for my children's school were (again a hands-up poll)

Roll 335 Children 7-11

257 Walked
68 Car
13 Bike
10 (push)Scooter
2 Bus
1 Train

The school is very popular, oversubscribed and difficult to drive to - a
dead end road reached through narrow, heavily-parked residential
streets. Most children live within 500m of the school.

julesh