In article , Dave Hinz says...

Thing is, whatever this "cliff" thing is, is obviously easily
enough filtered with a simple killfile entry. Why would someone want
to go to a site that may just vanish some day, when filtering out
most of the trollish behavior is trivially simple?

I don't filter stuff on usenet because a lot of the OT stuff is
of interest to me. There's more to this than strictly metalworking
as other's have realized. RCM is mostly akin to the old time
pickel barrel where like-minded folks hang out and discuss all
kinds of topics besides metalworking - but you know that for the
most part the discussion is going on between those of a similar
background.

Because of this the excursions into OT sometimes swing back around
on a different technical topic. I enjoy the free-wheeling aspect
of rcm so I maintain a presence here.

The practicalmachinist group is much more tightly focussed, even
broken down into subgroups. It's real to-the-point and because
it's moderated there's no crap there to wade though. For the real
toolhead I think it has a slight edge on rcm for content, especially
if one measures *total* posts, not just filtered ones.

Will it be there forever? Ha ha. Do I care? No.

Both of these groups have their place. But the orignal question,
"is there a discussion group that has no political banter and
a lot of metalworking" can be trivially solved by linking to
that site. It's what he wants, so I gave it to him.

He wasn't asking "how do I filter usenet posts." No matter
how sensible a question that is.

Jim


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