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Dane Buson wrote: Michael Press wrote: Kill files and the like are too much trouble. Look at all the effort expended to `ignore' people. With this news reader I push a button to instantly get the next article. Push a button to mark the current batch of articles in the thread read, and start the next thread. Well, I can see your point, but I don't agree. Your method works for individual 'noise' posts, but not so well for people or subjects that are consistently 'junk'. I have a limited amount of time to read usenet. If I finish my normal groups, I can head off to groups I infrequently read and enjoy them... I really don't understand this. Are you guys saying you normally read _every_ post, in _every_ thread? I always assumed everyone would read what they were interested in, and skip the rest. Anything else sounds like OCD! - Frank Krygowski |
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D'ohBoy wrote: Sandy prairie-dogged: seems not ....later................. Wait, here comes the square taper spindle thread! Yay! Chalo broke them at 230 lbs, now he won't even ride them - whereas others at that weight have ridden them for tens of thousands of miles and never broken one! Throw in the external bearing kerfuffle and a touch of spindle grease and the trifecta is complete. It's RBT in a nutshell! You forgot disk brakes and anti-GWB trolling (that works *every* time). E.P. |
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On 16 May 2006 07:03:41 -0700, "Ozark Bicycle"
wrote: John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 18:34:09 -0700, Mark Hickey wrote: It's just that almost no one involved in the thread really bothered to listen to reason, You mean they didn't listen to you? Yeah, they're lame. New! 1.4X more powerful than the previous model! It's TurboTroll !!! I wasn't trolling, I was mocking. No response from Hickey was desired. So if you're going to stalk my posts and rag on me, at least rag on me with the proper terms. Thanks, JT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: On 16 May 2006 07:03:41 -0700, "Ozark Bicycle" wrote: John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 18:34:09 -0700, Mark Hickey wrote: It's just that almost no one involved in the thread really bothered to listen to reason, You mean they didn't listen to you? Yeah, they're lame. New! 1.4X more powerful than the previous model! It's TurboTroll !!! I wasn't trolling, I was mocking. No response from Hickey was desired. A troll by any other name..... So if you're going to stalk my posts and rag on me Coming soon: "The Tale of the Pot and the Kettle". ;-) at least rag on me with the proper terms. Okay, you're a nasty, agressive, trolling moron. |
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Michael Press wrote: In article .com, wrote: I really don't understand this. Are you guys saying you normally read _every_ post, in _every_ thread? I always assumed everyone would read what they were interested in, and skip the rest. Anything else sounds like OCD! No. Read what I wrote. I can push a button that marks as read all current articles in a thread, and displays the first article in the next thread. Studying the list of article headers a waste of my time. Programming a kill file and the like is a waste of my time. I keep one article window open and run articles through it, skipping to the next article or thread at will. I study, read, speed read, skim, or skip an article as I please. Rarely look at the list of article headers; it does not tell me anything I want to know. Well, I should not have inclded you in the "you guys." But I am amazed at people that seem compelled to read everything. This includes, by necessity, people who complain about threads on helmets, or chain lube, or greased cranks, or whatever. I read only a small percentage of threads. I use the article headers to decide which to check out. I flag those threads that truly interest me and ignore the rest. The exceptions come when I see a thread with an uninteresting title (like this one) that has hung around for a while. Then I'll take a quick look to see why. In most cases, it still isn't worth my time. Complaining about other peoples' chosen topics for discussion seems intensely silly to me. I'm perfectly capable of reading a newspaper, yet skipping the sports section. - Frank Krygowski |
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.com, wrote: Michael Press wrote: In article .com, wrote: I really don't understand this. Are you guys saying you normally read _every_ post, in _every_ thread? I always assumed everyone would read what they were interested in, and skip the rest. Anything else sounds like OCD! No. Read what I wrote. I can push a button that marks as read all current articles in a thread, and displays the first article in the next thread. Studying the list of article headers a waste of my time. Programming a kill file and the like is a waste of my time. I keep one article window open and run articles through it, skipping to the next article or thread at will. I study, read, speed read, skim, or skip an article as I please. Rarely look at the list of article headers; it does not tell me anything I want to know. Well, I should not have inclded you in the "you guys." But I am amazed at people that seem compelled to read everything. This includes, by necessity, people who complain about threads on helmets, or chain lube, or greased cranks, or whatever. I read only a small percentage of threads. I use the article headers to decide which to check out. I flag those threads that truly interest me and ignore the rest. The exceptions come when I see a thread with an uninteresting title (like this one) that has hung around for a while. Then I'll take a quick look to see why. In most cases, it still isn't worth my time. Complaining about other peoples' chosen topics for discussion seems intensely silly to me. I'm perfectly capable of reading a newspaper, yet skipping the sports section. I'll go out on a limb here and extend this at least one more article. Looking at a list of Subject: headers takes time and brain power; and I still cannot generate sufficient confidence in any assessment I make. Whereas reading a few sentences in an article tells me exactly what I need to know; reading a few articles in a thread tells me if I want to skip to the next thread with very high confidence. -- Michael Press |
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1400 posts, from only 81 authors. Probably not too many more readers
than that. As they say in the Tenderloin, get a room! |
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