If any of you need to reach me please e-mail me or post on my message board. I used to read this NG every day and it used to be a somewhat reliable way to reach me but I won't be reading it too often anymore. I'll check in every so often to make sure that I'm not missing anything. The OT stuff has killed it for me. Congrats to Ed Dolan! Had no idea that one jerk could so easily kill such a good thing. (Yes I know, Ed.... You are only responding to everyone else and you're fighting the good fight against all of the horrible liberals, blah, blah, blah...)
-- Bryan J. Ball Publisher/Editor 'BentRider Online Magazine www.bentrideronline.com
I'm with you Bryan. The intellectual level of the discourse here has diminished to the point where the name of the newsgroup is approaching irrelevancy. All the OT stuff and the lunatic ravings of self-righteous small-minded ideologues is becoming tiresome. To Ed and the others - try to remember that passion and conviction are not substitutes for thoughtfulness or correctness. Karma is real - believe it or become an example of it...
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-- Bryan J. Ball Publisher/Editor 'BentRider Online Magazine www.bentrideronline.com
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If any of you need to reach me please e-mail me or post on my message board. I used to read this NG every day and it used to be a somewhat reliable way to reach me but I won't be reading it too often anymore. I'll check in every so often to make sure that I'm not missing anything. The OT stuff has killed it for me. Congrats to Ed Dolan! Had no idea that one jerk could so easily kill such a good thing. (Yes I know, Ed.... You are only responding to everyone else and you're fighting the good fight against all of the horrible liberals, blah, blah, blah...)
Bryan Ball <[email hidden]> wrote: : If any of you need to reach me please e-mail me or post on my message board. I used to read this : NG every day and it used to be a somewhat reliable way to reach me but I won't be reading it too : often anymore. I'll check in every so often to make sure that I'm not missing anything. The OT : stuff has killed it for me.
Sounds a bit extreme, and maybe not that smart to me... This newsgroup surely has lots of people with brains, manners and experience on bents. You let go of all that because of a few jerks? You could always just ignore the non-productive posters (sometimes it just isn't worth it replying...). Or vouch for a moderated newsgroup if you think that would help!
If any of you need to reach me please e-mail me or post on my message board. I used to read this NG every day and it used to be a somewhat reliable way to reach me but I won't be reading it too often anymore. I'll check in every so often to make sure that I'm not missing anything. The OT stuff has killed it for me. Congrats to Ed Dolan! Had no idea that one jerk could so easily kill such a good thing.
I activated a kill filter for the two worst offenders and the amount of OT posts I see has dropped to a very easily ignored, low, number.
It's honestly SAD that a lot of my fellow recumboers are deciding to sign off from the a.r.b.r NG, based on a few "GOOFS that continue to post OT's here. I honestly hope you all will reconsider, otherwise JERKOFFS like Ed D... and others WIN at killing off those posters that are TRULY interested in recumbent bicycling and only that in this particular NG. If you're using Outlook express all you would need to do (As I have just done) is click on tools, then "Message rules" and set up a kill file filter for O.T., OT and ot in the subject line area OR the idiots name (Posting the OT) in the "From" area. I don't get anyone's OT postings anymore and if that results in some longtime fellow posters missing, that so be it. It's obvious the majority of recumbent interests here DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR [censored] OT postings. It's a free for all world out there in Newsgroup land and there has always been (And will be) TROLLS AND OT posters out there. Don't let them win! Take a few moments and filter their collective Troll / OT asses out!!! EZ (No OT's anymore) Biker :-) Pompano Beach, Fl. (Bacchetta Aero Pilot)
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Like I said, I'll still be around from time to time but it's just not worth it to pop in here every day anymore. Filtering/blocking/kill filing takes longer around here than it does to read the few actual recumbent posts.
"EZ Biker :-)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:PuPAb.53043$_M.252363@attbi_s54...
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It's honestly SAD that a lot of my fellow recumboers are deciding to sign off from the a.r.b.r NG, based on a few "GOOFS that continue to post OT's here. I honestly hope you all will reconsider, otherwise JERKOFFS like Ed D... and others WIN at killing off those posters that are TRULY interested in recumbent bicycling and only that in this particular NG. If you're using Outlook express all you would need to do (As I have just done) is click on tools, then "Message rules" and set up a kill file
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postings. It's a free for all world out there in Newsgroup land and there has always been (And will be) TROLLS AND OT posters out there. Don't let them win! Take a few moments and filter their collective Troll / OT asses out!!! EZ (No OT's anymore) Biker :-) Pompano Beach, Fl. (Bacchetta Aero Pilot)
"Philbert" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
If you're using Outlook express all you would need to do (As I have just done) is click on tools, then "Message rules" and set up a kill file filter for O.T., OT and ot in the subject line area OR the idiots name (Posting the OT) in the "From" area. I don't get anyone's OT postings anymore and if that results in some longtime fellow posters missing, that so be it.
Trouble with filtering "ot" is that OE also filters out threads like: "These tires explode, do not buy". Just a silly example but it triggers on the "ot" in "not".
Why do people have to start a new "Farewell, I'm leaving"-thread btw? Almost more OT threads complaining about OT threads now.
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Like I said, I'll still be around from time to time but it's just not worth it to pop in here every day anymore. Filtering/blocking/kill filing takes longer around here than it does to read the few actual recumbent posts.
Before you go, you might want to get a good newsclient. Gravity is my newsclient of choice. I have not seen most of the posts these past few weeks. I have seen statistics that read "unread posts on server: 35" and my news client will down load 18. Not too good signal to noise ratio lately, but my blood is not boiling and I haven't wasted any time skimming over drivel.
-- Cletus D. Lee Bacchetta Giro Lightning Voyager clee.orgclee.orgOpen ↗ - Bellaire, TX USA -
Originally posted by Bryan Ball The OT stuff has killed it for me. Congrats to Ed Dolan...
I understand your reasoning. I felt the same way until I discovered the filtering feature. Being on this board for about four or five years I have discovered that this stuff comes in cycles (no pun intended). This is always someone trying to stir up the crowd. But why feed these posters?
I do not see Ed Dolans or some other's posts anymore because I have elected not too. Why can't others do the same?
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I used to read this NG every day and it used to be a somewhat reliable way to reach me but I won't be reading it too often anymore. I'll check in every so often to make sure that I'm not missing anything. The OT stuff
has
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killed it for me. Congrats to Ed Dolan! Had no idea that one jerk could
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easily kill such a good thing. (Yes I know, Ed.... You are only
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Mr. Ball
The best filtering device, is our head + eyes... I don't turn on my filters, but the fooleries written by Mr. Dolan are entirely invisible to me. Don't worry... Be happy! You are a great part in our machine. Don't run off...
"Bryan Ball" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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If any of you need to reach me please e-mail me or post on my message board. I used to read this NG every day and it used to be a somewhat reliable way to reach me but I won't be reading it too often anymore. I'll check in every so often to make sure that I'm not missing anything. The OT stuff has killed it for me. Congrats to Ed Dolan! Had no idea that one jerk could so easily kill such a good thing. (Yes I know, Ed.... You are only responding to everyone else and you're fighting the good fight against all of the horrible liberals, blah, blah, blah...)
Nope, not a word about Mr. Sherman. I guess this ought to tell everyone where Mr. Ball is coming from. For the editor of an online magazine he seems to have an awful lot of difficulty navigating his way through something so simple as Google ARBR. Maybe one of these days I will have to have a look at his rag and see if it is as screwed up as his posts to this newsgroup are.
Respectfully Bryan, as editor, you really need to stay aware of what folks are saying about recumbents on this NG.
Set your filters and pass by any suspected junk without opening it. Works for me, anyhow.
-- Bob Siegel in Gainesville FL "Bryan Ball" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Like I said, I'll still be around from time to time but it's just not
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"EZ Biker :-)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:PuPAb.53043$_M.252363@attbi_s54...
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in recumbent bicycling and only that in this particular NG. If you're using Outlook express all you would need to do (As I have just done) is click on tools, then "Message rules" and set up a kill file
filter
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for O.T., OT and ot in the subject line area OR the idiots name (Posting
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OT) in the "From" area. I don't get anyone's OT postings anymore and if
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results in some longtime fellow posters missing, that so be it. It's
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the majority of recumbent interests here DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR [censored]
OT
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postings. It's a free for all world out there in Newsgroup land and
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out!!! EZ (No OT's anymore) Biker :-) Pompano Beach, Fl. (Bacchetta Aero Pilot)
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Like I said, I'll still be around from time to time
The meta-farewell soliloquy continues...
Yeah, you got that right Zippy. I have never seen such hypocrisy in my life. These guys will be around forever and they will never leave. One of these days they may actually learn how to operate their news readers. I just stay on the Google site myself and I do not have the least bit of difficulty deciding who and what I want to read. A total no-brainer!
Anyone who wants to go to the HPV site should do so and there they will find the biggest collection of jerks in the world. I once subscribed to that list myself and couldn't get off of it fast enough. Nothing but junk posts by total idiots. We here on ARBR never had it so good. Some poor souls just don't know when they are well off.
