On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:04:54 -0400, the infamous Jack Stein
scrawled the following:

Dave Balderstone wrote:

The wreck is a community. In any community there will be conflict.

Yes.

I've been hanging around here for a few years, and have ****ed off some
people, some people have ****ed me off... That's what filters are for.
I go back and revisit mine from time to time. Turn some off, create
some new ones, you don't have to talk to, or listen to, everybody.

Things erupt from time to time, but over all, in my experience, the
majority of the conversation in this community is about wooddorking.

Someone bitched about all the off topic stuff before, stating that those
participating in off topic, political crap didn't participate in the
woodworking threads. I went through about 10 days of a particularly
average, angry,off topic, fight fest and listed all the participants.
For the most part, it looked like a who's who of this group.

I've been participating in "newsgroups" since the FidoNet (FightoNet)
days, and it was no different then. Fighto net was moderated and on
topic posts were generally requested, but seldom maintained. Flame
fests broke out on most high traffic groups, and that hasn't changed a
bit in all these years, and I suspect it never will change.

Giant, off topic threads start because people enjoy them. Those that
don't interest you can easily be skipped, manually, or with a filter.
Talking about it will not change anything, other than adding to the off
topic posts....

One of the nice things about Agent is that you have an Ignore key. The
"I" key is also actuated by the, you guessed it, the BIRD FINGER, for
extra enjoyment by the filterer.

So smile, and _flip off_ those OT posters, boys and girls!

--
May those who love us, love us;
And may those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts;
And if he doesn't turn their hearts,
may he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.
--old Gaelic blessing