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blueman

writes:
Blueman, you're right on the money about the alt.hvac forum, all those
guys do is belittle everyone else. They often say that the alt.hvac
forum is for "professionals", but then they do nothing but drop the "F"
bomb on everyone and say you're an idiot, how professional is that?
(see Paul's post above for example),

The alt.hvac forum has turned into a sandbox for these "professionals"
to throw mud at unsuspecting people posting with legit questions. They
really do the HVAC industry a disservice.

Agreed.
The evil side of me though is thinking of making this one of my
regular newsgroups and pitching a new "innocent" question every day...
Should be fun to see them respond to the bait like Pavlov's dogs...
Worse comes to worse, they just iggie me in which case next time I ask
a real question, I won't have to wade through their waste-of-bandwidth
replies.

I also really love the one about how "this is a professionals only
newsgroup" -- well, duh -- this is USENET and groups unless moderated
are open to everyone... Also, talking about "cheap *******s", if they
want their own private sandbox to pee in, then why don't they each
pitch in a dollar a month and get their own hosted site. But then
again, you can't buy web hosting with food stamps and these unemployed
so-called tech's probably need to save their last pennies for their
weekly sunday six-pack.