I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

--
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if
one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
-- Louis L'Amour

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and planers"
discussion? ;~)

John

John Grossbohlin wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and planers"
discussion? ;~)


It does seem like traffic has been down over the past day or two.

--

-Mike-

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:25:19 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

John Grossbohlin wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and planers"
discussion? ;~)


It does seem like traffic has been down over the past day or two.

I got zero for a day, but tonight it's back. http://tinyurl.com/e5qm8

--
Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
-- Buddha

On 4/24/2012 9:31 AM, John Grossbohlin wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and planers"
discussion? ;~)

Nope ... been too busy trying to learn Farsi/Arabic. Plenty of that
around here.

--
www.eWoodShop.com
Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlCaillouet@ (the obvious)
http://gplus.to/eWoodShop

On 4/24/2012 10:31 AM, John Grossbohlin wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and planers"
discussion? ;~)

A good thing about usenet is you get to participate in the threads that
interest you instead of the ones the forum owner wants, and when you do,
you don't have to worry about someone that is about to call you an
asshole being censored. Free speech is generally cool in the long run,
and censorship is generally bad.

--
Jack
Add Life to your Days not Days to your Life.
http://jbstein.com

"Jack" wrote in message
...
On 4/24/2012 10:31 AM, John Grossbohlin wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and planers"
discussion? ;~)

A good thing about usenet is you get to participate in the threads that
interest you instead of the ones the forum owner wants, and when you do,
you don't have to worry about someone that is about to call you an asshole
being censored. Free speech is generally cool in the long run, and
censorship is generally bad.

Censorship was the biggest problem with Prodigy's discussion groups back in
the early 90s... It was particularly annoying when academic authors quoted
their own published research and their messages were deleted for "long
quotations." I ran into that myself when posting sections of my own
papers/articles. I've found that "Moderated" groups (whether Usenet or Web
based) often suffer the problem of the moderator's biases in filtering...
and in the worst cases they seem to feel compelled to join in every thread
whether they have anything of substance to offer or not. That said, it
would be nice to be able to keep the mass spammers off Usenet... ;~)

The trick with uncensored Usenet is to learn to ignore the flamers. That and
grow a really thick skin. ;~)

John

John Grossbohlin wrote:


Censorship was the biggest problem with Prodigy's discussion groups
back in the early 90s... It was particularly annoying when academic
authors quoted their own published research and their messages were
deleted for "long quotations." I ran into that myself when posting
sections of my own papers/articles. I've found that "Moderated"
groups (whether Usenet or Web based) often suffer the problem of the
moderator's biases in filtering... and in the worst cases they seem
to feel compelled to join in every thread whether they have anything
of substance to offer or not. That said, it would be nice to be able
to keep the mass spammers off Usenet... ;~)
The trick with uncensored Usenet is to learn to ignore the flamers.
That and grow a really thick skin. ;~)


Yup. And a does of personal humility now and then doesn't hurt either.
I've been a usenet user from day one (or two, or whatever, for the anal
retentive out there...), and the one thing I hate the most is moderatated
groups. They're great for a very small percentage of people who want to
hang out together, but serve no other purpose. I avoid them as much as I
can now.

--

-Mike-

On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:19:07 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
groups. They're great for a very small percentage of people who want to
hang out together, but serve no other purpose. I avoid them as much as I
can now.

Then, all I can say is that you don't hang out in the right groups. As
you know, I can curse and swear and harass as much as anyone. Yet, I
feel perfectly at home in the Festool Owners group web site, where
it's moderated for all swearing and personal attacks.

Everybody there can and does discuss most any subject as long as it
does not affect any family oriented values. That scenario maybe too
bland or tame for some, but your suggestion that it's a "small
percentage of people" is as far off base as it can get.

The percentage of regular posters there outnumbers rec.w member
numbers many, many times.

Jack wrote:
On 4/24/2012 10:31 AM, John Grossbohlin wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Maybe everyone is worn out from the "sizing home jointers and
planers" discussion? ;~)

A good thing about usenet is you get to participate in the threads
that interest you instead of the ones the forum owner wants, and when
you do, you don't have to worry about someone that is about to call
you an asshole being censored. Free speech is generally cool in the
long run, and censorship is generally bad.

Not sure how that ties into what John said Larry, but all the same... Preach
It Brother!

--

-Mike-

Larry Jaques wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?



Know any good Cajun jokes?


--
G.W. Ross

Hardly a driver / Is now alive / Who
passed / On hills / At 75 / Burma-Shave

On 4/24/2012 10:29 AM, G.W. Ross wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?



Know any good Cajun jokes?



I've met a couple....

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

On Apr 24, 10:41*am, Steve Barker wrote:
On 4/24/2012 10:29 AM, G.W. Ross wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Know any good Cajun jokes?

I've met a couple....


LOL. I like that one.

Sonny

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:29:36 -0400, "G.W. Ross"
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

Know any good Cajun jokes?

Whoooeee, Cher, I purely does!

A long, long time ago, when dem cypresses was jus' younguns, it was
young Boudreaux's first day in school and a teacher was going to play
a "guessing" game. She passed out items to each of the students and
proceeded to ask each student what item they received. When it was the
new boy, Boudreaux's turn, the teacher gave him a candy kiss. She
asked "Do you know what it is?"

Boudreaux replied "No."

The teacher said, "Go ahead and open it up and taste it."

Little Boudreaux did so.

The teacher then asked, "Now do you know what it is?"

Little Boudreaux said "Nooooo."

The teacher said, "I'll give you a hint . . . it is something your
daddy wants from your mommy every night before he goes to sleep."

Little Thibodeaux in the back of the class jumps up and screams
"SPIT IT OUT, BOUDREAUX, SPIT IT OUT! IT'S A PIECE O' ASS!

--
Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
-- Buddha

For a few days, I've had no problem seeing the list of threads (same
problem on the rec.homerepair), but haven't been able to open an
individual thread. I get an error #388 message, something about the
server not responding or able to load. I switched back to the old
Google Groups format and I can, now, read the individual threads. I
don't know how to repair the #388 error issue.

I Googled "error #388" and found lots of hits, but I don't know enough
about computers to understand the technical fixes as per some of the
computer or other forums.

Sonny

On 4/24/2012 9:27 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts since yesterday morning, the 23rd.
Whassup?

--
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if
one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
-- Louis L'Amour

I have seen 10~15. If you truly have not seen any new posts since
yesterday perhaps you have too many filters.