On Sep 22, 10:04 am, Bart Bailey wrote:
In s.com
posted on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:39:10 -0700, Tom wrote: Begin

The position of improve-usenet seems to be akin to
banning all Corvettes from the road because there are some bad
drivers.

More like banning Corvettes because most are bad drivers.
I currently have the filter set to flag googlers instead of outright
dropping them, the ratio of interesting posts is just under half.
IOW: Over half the googlers are uninteresting nym**** trolls.
I really don't care what means of access folks use,

- only pointing out that google posters
- are held in fairly low regard
- and some people routinely drop all
- (including good) posts by them.

as well we should be ! - i b googled for posting puffs ~ rhf

On Sep 22, 3:50 pm, Bart Bailey wrote:
In ups.com
posted on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:11:05 -0700, RHF wrote: Begin



- only pointing out that google posters
- are held in fairly low regard
- and some people routinely drop all
- (including good) posts by them.

as well we should be !

You weren't dropped or I wouldn't be responding.
I think it was Brenda Ann that turned me on to how bad the whole google
operation is, and why I use google scraperhttp://www.scroogle.org/
also did you see the link to what some other folk think?http://improve-usenet.org
I'm not quite that harsh but do agree somewhat.
p.s. - see the distribution line in my header

...and Roy,
since you seem like a **** load of links in your posts,
here's another one : http://tinyurl.com/5u26u
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73 de
KM6RF
Bart

i b da mis-sing link . . . ~ RHF