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Old February 27th 08, 01:33 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that! I'm
off -- bye
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Old February 27th 08, 03:21 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Rob Morley wrote:
If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.


That type of answer if typical of what the original poster was
complaining about. What a waste of space.
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Old February 27th 08, 03:34 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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"renum" wrote in message
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Rob Morley wrote:
If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.


That type of answer if typical of what the original poster was complaining
about. What a waste of space.


Thing is, what he wrote is actually true and sensible - not a waste of space
at all. Usenet is unmoderated, and this NG attracts various people whose
intent is to disrupt - aka trolls. A poor web interface will not help
control this, whereas using it via a decent newsreader will allow you to
ignore the crap and get on with the useful bits.

clive

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Old February 27th 08, 06:13 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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renum wrote:

Rob Morley wrote:
If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.


That type of answer if typical of what the original poster was
complaining about. What a waste of space.


i read/post via google groups when out and about and it's a shocker how
much crap is there, so yes Rob is on the money there. usenet does take
some effort, at least in the setting up.

roger
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Old February 27th 08, 07:12 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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i read/post via google groups when out and about and it's a shocker how
much crap is there, so yes Rob is on the money there. usenet does take
some effort, at least in the setting up.

roger


If you use GG through FireFox the GreaseMonkey add-in provides a kill-
file of sorts - v.handy - all though I haven't the heart to put Ed
Dolan in it yet - like Smeagol, I suspect there might be a tiny piece
of good left lurking around in there somewhere :-)

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Old February 27th 08, 08:35 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Roger Merriman
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Duncan Smith wrote:


i read/post via google groups when out and about and it's a shocker how
much crap is there, so yes Rob is on the money there. usenet does take
some effort, at least in the setting up.

roger


If you use GG through FireFox the GreaseMonkey add-in provides a kill-
file of sorts - v.handy - all though I haven't the heart to put Ed
Dolan in it yet - like Smeagol, I suspect there might be a tiny piece
of good left lurking around in there somewhere :-)


sadly the nokia tablet doesn't really have that option. it's the 770 so
doesn't really have the oomph for firefox.

roger
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