I have been lurking on this group for 18 months. When I joined, full of
enthusiasm for my discovery of DSII I read through ALL the archives. I was
knocked out by the depth of discussion and the interesting related but OT
threads and dashes of humour. HOWEVER enough is enough. In the last few months
the ratio of content to garbage has reached crisis proportions. Between sheep
puns, discussions of racial mix and problems in Germany, plain unashamed
rudeness, racial intolerance and American world domination, this list has
become a place not to be unless you are at least as thick skinned as a rhino.
When a list becomes dominated by one or two self opinionated bigots then it's
time to take a close look at the list and it's aims. For me it's time to go.
Many thanks to former contributors and a few of the current members for their
frequent help with rules queries that helped me understand a great rules set.
Goodbye folks.
Ciao!
> Bob DeAngelis wrote:
> I have been lurking on this group for 18 months. When I joined, full of
bye-bye BOB!
wish y'all had stayed!
> bye-bye BOB!
<grin> I hope you don't go into a Southern restaurant and ask for "a grit",
Dawg. "Y'all" is plural.
This brings up the possibility of comms problems between different units in
NAC (and probably ESU, maybe FSE).
"We're the lorry with its bonnet up"
Hi,
I too am finding the noise to content ratio to be growing. Maybe 10% of the
posts on this list are on topic. Could people try a little bit harder to stay
on topic? All I ask is that before people post, ask yourself this: "Do the
several hundred other people on the list really care about this?"
Maybe we could give J.A. his own list, where people send messages carefully
crafted to rile him up, then stand back and watch the fireworks. Also, the
puns could move to alt.humor.puns (see, someone has already set it up for
you!) I'm sure they will be far more appreciative over there.
Personally, I could care less if someone hates the French, thinks Italians
make better coffee than tanks, has found that Arabs can't hit the broad side
of a barn from 12 paces, has discovered that the Germans invented
the anti-armour rifle bullet, or eats hush puppies with onions.
All it means to me is that I get 70 emails a day, of which maybe three or four
have anything remotely to do with GZG.
Sincerely, Tony Christney
> On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 01:18 AM, Bob DeAngelis wrote:
> I have been lurking on this group for 18 months. When I joined, full
> was
> OT
> it's
> few
LOL!
in TEXAS (and i am native born son of same) y'all is both singular and
plural, depending on whether yo are addressing one or more folks.
There's always the digest, if it's to many emails for you. This is meant in an
informational means, not a flame, insult, or
off-topic
post.
Rand.
I'D LIKE TO ADD TO THE NOISE PLEASE!
Seriously, the noise is what makes me come back. If there's anywhere in
the world a discussion about the armor properties of a stegasaurius (or
however the hell you spell it) can be debated with some of the sharpest minds
I've met, it's on this list.
After saying that, I realised how easy it was to "Select All" "delete" the 450
unread messages in my gzg folder (all my gzg emails are autoforwarded (excpet
for a brief moment when they were coming from some
other funky list that I had to unsubscribe from).
Hmmm. maybe I don't HAVE to read them all. If the subject line catche
my interest, then I'll dabble, if it don't, I'll delete willy-nilly. I
HAVE THE POWER <he yelled pointing his sword at his welles-ian cat>
putting on my asbestos underwear, I retreat back into the shadows
jim jim@tablegamer.com www.tablegamer.com
> Tony Christney wrote:
> Hi,
> Randall L. Joiner wrote:
> There's always the digest, if it's to many emails for you.
The problem with the digest is that it is much harder to follow threads in it.
Yes, it cuts down on the number of emails to download, but at least for
me it increases the time spent reading the mail considerably - not least
because I can't simply delete an entire thread which doesn't interest me!
Later,
I didn't say it was a perfect (or even good) solution, but something that
those people leaving might not know about.
*shrug* Personally, I love the noise, it's part of what makes a good
conversation.
Rand.
> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> Randall L. Joiner wrote: