"Al" wrote in message
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I agree. This newsgroup has so much good information and machining ideas!
But along with it I have to put up with so much cross posting, spam, and
right wing crap that probably 1/2 the posts along with some good one's are
in my kill-file.

What to do?????

Al

Remember what John Wanamaker said about advertising: "I know that half of my
advertising is wasted. I just don't know which half."

I apply the same rule here. Just peek in an look; if it's junk, ignore the
thread, unless it goes on for more than a few days. If it does, the topic
probably has changed completely. d8-)

And don't get too serious about it. Remember what P.J. O'Rourke said -- I
think he must have stopped by this NG before he wrote it:

"Specialization increases economic value. As an example Smith famously used
the 'trifling manufacture' of a pin. Without specialization and specialists'
machinery it would take us all day to make one pin. In an early draft of
_Wealth_, Smith noted that if we went so far as to dig in the iron mines,
smelt our own ore, and so forth, we could 'scarce make one pin in a year.'
And somewhere a group of hobbyists -- contactable via the Internet -- is
doing just that, to the irritated mystification of their wives." -- P.J.
O'Rourke, _On The Wealth of Nations_

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Ed Huntress