February 14th 09, 02:33 PM
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On Feb 13, 10:01*pm, John Kasupski wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:17:08 -0500, (Web Foote)
wrote:
Who runs this group?
Nobody. This is not a forum on AOL, a chat room on MSN, or some other
such thing. This is a newsgroup on Usenet, a throwback to the days
when the Internet had recently hatched from its origins in ARPANet and
was mostly inhabited by government employees and people at colleges
and universities (i.e. .gov and .edu users).
Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk?
No. It is possible for users to do this themselves using a proper news
reader application and filtering. As far as I know, it is not possible
for WebTV users to accomplish this.
Where are all the
ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights,
reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham
and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks
like CB sounds like anymore.
Yes, well, this is what happens when the intelligent people get tired
of the morons. The intelligent people find somewhere else to go,
leaving the morons behind to continue their fine traditions.
It's also what happens when outfits like AOL and, later, Google decide
to create proprietary implementations of Usenet, ignoring conventions
such as NNTP in favor of their own concoctions, and then throw access
open to the masses without implementing any means of controlling the
drivel they post - thereby making it possible for morons to pollute
the newsgroups with impunity.
And now we have WebTV, the new AOL. Nothing personal, and no offense
meant - for all I know you may be as dedicated to the radio arts as I
am, and perhaps even moreso. If that's the case - the problem is that
for every person like you, there's fifty who wouldn't know Universal
Serial Bus from Upper Sideband and spend their time mostly forwarding
junk mail to anyone who is unfortunate enough to have their e-mail
address fall into the hands of one of these cretins.
If you've ever received an e-mail that begins with several screenfuls
of e-mail addresses belonging to people you've never heard of, you
know exactly what I'm referring to; If you have ever actually
forwarded one to someone else, may the fleas of a thousand camels
infest your genitalia.
And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dig out my list of
frequencies for NTSB. Somebody crash-landed an airplane into
somebody's living room here last night, well within scanner range.
? Morons ?
http://www.answers.com/topic/moron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology)
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