blueman wrote:
"trbo20" writes:
That's funny stuff, blueman, and I understand what drove you to write
it. Careful who you trash, though. It's not like that for an entire
trade. In fact, I'd venture to say that most aren't like that, but
that's not based on much more than a hunch. People on newsgroups like
to know a lot of things and also like to be right when the other guy is
wrong. You can read though some of the flame wars to see that. In
fact, it's why I post when I do - it's just fun being the expert
sometimes.


You are absolutely right -- My sarcasm is really only aimed at the bad
apples who seem to disproportionately hang out in alt.hvac. I have
nothing against any fine professional of any trade. In fact, I'm sure
given our old house that I pay more than my fair share of service
bills; however, I do like to fix the small and relatively simple
things myself, saving my service dollars for the bigger jobs that I
cannot or do not want to do myself. However, in the alt.hvac reality
that seems to be some type of heinous crime

Cross post to alt.hvac removed.

Please don't start a flame war between AHR and the flex duct boys in
alt.hvac by crossposting to this NG. The unwritten rule has been that
they don't **** in our sandbox and we don't **** in their's. It's a
given that alt.hvac is _the_ asshole of Usenet. If you have a beef
with _them_, stop posting about it in AHR and take it to their
worthless NG. If you want a good laugh, though, check out the posts in
alt.hvac for last June, 2006 when they ****ed off the wrong
"homemoaner." I don't have anything good to say about them other than
I do respect the fact that they don't come over here and stir things up.