"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On 1 Feb 2005 14:05:09 -0800, jim rozen wrote:
In article 01c5087d$fb8bbb20$55a3c3d8@race, Bob Paulin says...

appreciate it if anybody could help....

Your wait is over. Link to this site:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi

The off-topic chatter is relegated to the manufacturing section
for the most part. Because most of the rest of the board
is moderated, they don't tolerate the cliff-like nonsense.

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?

That works for "Cliff's" posts but doesn't help at all for the (usually)
many responses. I suppose that one could start to filter by topic or mark
threads to be ignored but it's easier and quicker for me to just highlight
the posts I'm not interested in, mark them as read, and then move on.

I suspect, though, that the OP is just interested in a newsgroup or forum
that has a much higher S/N ratio than this one, at least as he defines the S
and N. Practical Machinist is probably a good candidate for him, so long as
he doesn't mind the web-based interface.

Mike