"Mike Rice" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:14:58 -0500, "Edward Dolan"
wrote:

I believe it is highly inappropriate to have a thread about a person. A
thread should always be about a subject. I am able and willing to discuss
any subject under the sun, but I do not like to be put in the position of
having to defend myself as a person all the time. Ask yourself how you
would
like it.

When you post a message which has a person as the subject, you are doing
nothing but reducing ARBR to a gossip column. We do not want that. Just
post
your message on a subject without any name and this newsgroup will thrive.

Ed didn't you start the 'Milestone day for Ed Dolan' thread? And now
you don't like your name in the topic?

Well, that was a very special occasion. Anytime anyone can top Tom Sherman
is a day to note. Please note now that he has returned to ARBR how he posts
one liners. I never do that because I always have many things to say to all
the idiots that infest this newsgroup. I am prolix if nothing else.

If you will examine my posts overall, you will discover that I am primarily
a responder. I almost never initiate a subject thread. Tom Sherman is like
this too and I like him for this. If we wanted to, Tom Sherman and I could
completely dominate this newsgroup and in effect destroy it. But we both
have regard for our fellow recumbent cyclists and so we do not allow our
egos to run amuck. We both want ARBR to prosper. I assume you want that too.

Give me a break.

I can't believe your really bothered when your favorite subject comes
up so visibly. After all, you are the one trying to change this group
from being about recumbents (remember those?) to Mr. Ed's playhouse.

No, I do not want that at all. I want to discuss serious subjects seriously.
It can either be on topic or off topic. That is why I throw out so many
outrageous statements. I am a Great Fisherman but there are no fish here on
ARBR at the present moment except for the likes of JimXXX and Jeff Grippe,
both of whom are not worthy of me. It is a burden that I have to bear for
being so Great.

I will say this much. I am primarily involved with housekeeping duties here
on ARBR. I think that may come from my background as a college librarian.
Every newsgroup needs someone like me who will keep an eagle eye on things
and not let the group degenerate into mindless banter and terminal boredom.
I am death on mindless banter. If you want to chit-chat with someone, then
go to email and spare the rest of us your idiocies.

--
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota