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  1. Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
    shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
    are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that! I'm
    off -- bye

  2. [email hidden] writtificated

    Quoted message said:

    Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
    shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
    are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that!

    Welcome to unmoderated Usenet :-/
    Liberal use of the kill-file and kill-thread clears things up.

    Quoted message said:

    I'm off -- bye

    I recommend Another Cycling Forum, despite the web based interface.

  3. In article <9c7f8f7d-9620-4bcd-934a-f618b1ca2325
    @k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, [email hidden]
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:

    Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
    shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
    are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that! I'm
    off -- bye


    If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
    newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
    out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.

  4. Rob Morley said:

    If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
    newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
    out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.

    That type of answer if typical of what the original poster was
    complaining about. What a waste of space.

  5. "renum" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Rob Morley said:

    If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
    newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
    out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.

    That type of answer if typical of what the original poster was complaining
    about. What a waste of space.

    Thing is, what he wrote is actually true and sensible - not a waste of space
    at all. Usenet is unmoderated, and this NG attracts various people whose
    intent is to disrupt - aka trolls. A poor web interface will not help
    control this, whereas using it via a decent newsreader will allow you to
    ignore the [censored] and get on with the useful bits.

    clive

  6. renum said:
    Rob Morley said:

    If only you'd bothered to access the group properly with a
    newsreader/server rather than a crappy web interface you could have cut
    out the noise and benefitted from the worthwhile stuff.

    That type of answer if typical of what the original poster was
    complaining about. What a waste of space.

    i read/post via google groups when out and about and it's a shocker how
    much [censored] is there, so yes Rob is on the money there. usenet does take
    some effort, at least in the setting up.

    roger
    --
    www.rogermerriman.com


  7. Quoted message said:


    i read/post via google groups when out and about and it's a shocker how
    much [censored] is there, so yes Rob is on the money there. usenet does take
    some effort, at least in the setting up.

    roger

    If you use GG through FireFox the GreaseMonkey add-in provides a kill-
    file of sorts - v.handy - all though I haven't the heart to put Ed
    Dolan in it yet - like Smeagol, I suspect there might be a tiny piece
    of good left lurking around in there somewhere :-)

  8. Duncan Smith said:
    Quoted message said:


    i read/post via google groups when out and about and it's a shocker how
    much [censored] is there, so yes Rob is on the money there. usenet does take
    some effort, at least in the setting up.

    roger

    If you use GG through FireFox the GreaseMonkey add-in provides a kill-
    file of sorts - v.handy - all though I haven't the heart to put Ed
    Dolan in it yet - like Smeagol, I suspect there might be a tiny piece
    of good left lurking around in there somewhere :-)

    sadly the nokia tablet doesn't really have that option. it's the 770 so
    doesn't really have the oomph for firefox.

    roger
    --
    www.rogermerriman.com

  9. Quoted message said:

    Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
    shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
    are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that! I'm
    off -- bye

    So, the group is no good because most of teh posters are ranting
    rather than talking about cycling. Your post had how much about
    cycling? And it was entirely rant free, I'm sure.

    The people posting are just trying to score points . . . "How boring
    is that!" So, your post was completely free of content-less
    point-scoring too (things like, say, proclaiming how boring everyone
    is).

    Have a nice life.

    regards, Ian SMith
    --
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    |o o|
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  10. Quoted message said:

    Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
    shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
    are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that! I'm
    off -- bye

    Getting run over or not by a motorcar with all it's implications does
    seem to be the most favoured subject at the moment 😉

    --
    /Marten

    info(apestaartje)m-gineering(punt)nl

  11. "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Joined the forum a few months ago hoping for useful information and
    shared interests to do with cycling. Seems most of the active posters
    are busy ranting and tryin to score points. How boring is that! I'm
    off -- bye

    You're not accessing a forum. You're accessing a newsgroup on Usenet, which
    is unmoderated. If you did it using a newsreader, you'd be able to screen
    out the posters/threads/subjects you did not wish to see by use of a
    kill-file. Try it - it works.

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