On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:40:43 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson
wrote:

On 2020-10-09, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 09:00:29 -0500, Fox's Mercantile
wrote:

On 10/9/20 6:29 AM, Arlen Holder wrote:
Worthless pieces of **** trolls like you, Fox's Mercantile...

Not very good at this are you?

Kinda reminds me of a ping pong match. The ball goes back and forth
endlessly and nothing worthwhile happens until somone fumbles it.

I'm always amused at the sheer amount of time and effort some posters
put into these useless exchanges - not just the "calling" ones, but
people who ask questions then quibble about what they consider wrong
advice - they must waste hours on it. Wish I had the stamina - I'd put
it to better use.

Jim
- going back to lurking

Chuckle. Allegedly, computahs are labor and time saving devices. It
would seem that we are experiencing a demonstration proving quite the
opposite. I've been submerged in Usenet for far to long to recall
what I did for entertainment prior to about 1981. I suspect it was
something equally useless and likely laced with debauchery.

Someone wiser than me once noted that Usenet conversations were really
not for the benefit of the participants. Instead, they merely
establish a mostly permanent record of the participants point of view,
so that some other future Usenet conversationalists can use them as
references. The lack of a clear winner in all Usenet conversations is
clearly proof that winning the discussion is not a priority. Many of
the successors to Usenet actually award points or badges for being the
most cited. The only good part is that where there are no clear
winners, there are also no clear losers. Let the most mediocre
position win.

This probably won't improve your understanding or stamina, but might
prove amusing. I wrote it when I was thinking along lines similar to
your lament:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/genesis.txt

And the lord looked upon the Usenet wasteland and proclaimed
"I have given unto thee a temple upon which thou may rant.
Instead, though hath turned my temple into a den of iniquity
and dung hole of misinformation. Unto thy ancestors, I
gave 10 commandments, but unto thee I shall give but one;
Thou shalt not post what thou also find unworthy of reading."

Hmmm... I probably shouldn't have posted this message.

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