>
>Rich wrote
>>A steady diet of technical stuff is as dry as Saturday's toast. A bit of
>>tooth and nail, knock-down / drag-out personal feculence can help to
>>relieve technical boredom .
>
>Indeed, although I can be a boring old stiff except when I'm propping up a
>bar :-)
hear, hear
>
>>Like Terry says, there's always the Delete key.
>
>
>Of course, but I don't want to automatically dump messages on the basis of
>author or topic, because that would sometimes lose useful technical content;
Nor do I. An exception would be a thread I am not interested in or a
post that contains insults or threats. .
>I end up having to read all the messages to decide if I want to read them....
>
A few sentences, and I can usually tell if the rest is going to be of
interest. .
>To put it in terms topical in the US at the moment, let me plead for
>positive, rather than negative campaigning.
>
According to Will, he was being pressured by complainants. My guess is
that this mess would not have happened with Paul Hellenberg as moderator
because he was familiar with the crybaby con. Live and learn.
cheers, Steve
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