On Oct 12, 1:28*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Oct 12, 11:02*am, Teignmouth wrote:

I forgot to say Dawlish,

I want to draw a line under this, and from now on I will not be
responding to any more of your posts.

In fact. I will be taking a break for a few days. It will be good to
give a few people a chance to consider their position and what they
are doing and I'm away anyway on business anyway.

When I return, I want no more of this - from anybody - or the
complaints to google will continue, as will the forwarding of abusive
and nasty posts, together with any further foul emails.

I'm only referring to a few people with this, so apologies to friends
and others. I'm sure you'll understand.

Friends? I can't think of any.

Foul emails? Didn't Alan White get such a nasty one from you
that he deleted it in case his wife saw it and was upset? Yes, he
did. He told me.

Abusive and nasty posts? The late Mike Tullett suffered
the most breathtakingly nasty reply I have ever seen on this group for
having the temerity to disagree with you and point out an error you
had made.

Foul language? You're enough to make a parson swear. You,
of course, have this knack of posting extremely offensively without
effing and blinding. It's a gift! Note: German, gift = poison.

You're away "on business" are you. Gosh, you *are*
important. You'll still have your laptop and you'll be logging on
every available minute of the day. Taking a break? Oh, for God's
sake stop it - my sides are hurting.

NB - Report this post.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Oct 12, 5:37*pm, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Oct 12, 1:28*pm, Dawlish wrote:





On Oct 12, 11:02*am, Teignmouth wrote:

I forgot to say Dawlish,

I want to draw a line under this, and from now on I will not be
responding to any more of your posts.

In fact. I will be taking a break for a few days. It will be good to
give a few people a chance to consider their position and what they
are doing and I'm away anyway on business anyway.

When I return, I want no more of this - from anybody - or the
complaints to google will continue, as will the forwarding of abusive
and nasty posts, together with any further foul emails.

I'm only referring to a few people with this, so apologies to friends
and others. I'm sure you'll understand.

* * * * *Friends? *I can't think of any.

* * * * *Foul emails? *Didn't Alan White get such a nasty one from you
that he deleted it in case his wife saw it and was upset? *Yes, he
did. *He told me.

* * * * *Abusive and nasty posts? * *The late Mike Tullett suffered
the most breathtakingly nasty reply I have ever seen on this group for
having the temerity to disagree with you and point out an error you
had made.

* * * * *Foul language? *You're enough to make a parson swear.. *You,
of course, have this knack of posting extremely offensively without
effing and blinding. *It's *a gift! *Note: German, gift = poison.

* * * * *You're away "on business" are you. *Gosh, you *are*
important. *You'll still have your laptop and you'll be logging on
every available minute of the day. *Taking a break? *Oh, for God's
sake stop it - my sides are hurting.

NB - Report this post.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.



- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I didn't think you'd be able to resist and you were one I named. Post
reported. Safely ignored.

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:06:44 -0700, Dawlish wrote:

I didn't think you'd be able to resist and you were one I named. Post
reported. Safely ignored.

The longer this goes on the funnier I'm finding it.
Is rattle throwing going to be included in the next olympics?

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 16:42, cupra scribbled:

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 13:07, Graham Easterling scribbled:

OK Smallbabe (remember her eh Dawlish?). I'm so ****ed off with the
bulk of the posts on USW that I'm now giving up for good, not just for
a couple of months like last time.

Please don't give up on us, Graham. Is there any particular reason why
you can't use a newsreader so that you can set up filters for ignoring
certain people? I find it a real boon.

Yep, I find Graham's posts informative and helpful too - I don't use a
killfile and rely on ignoring posts.... I hope regulars won't the furore
around one person kill the ng!

All my filters do is mark posts read so that I don't have to bother with
them. The system's there to ignore posts for me so why not use it. Instead
of getting themselves in a tizzy, others would be better off doing the same
instead of sounding the retreat. It's the one's running away who will cause
the downfall of the group, not the ones they're running away from.


Other option is a moderated group? Bit of a backward step IMO but it would
keep the 'community' together....

Ah, but who'd moderate the group and how long would it be before people
complained about being unfairly treated. Who'd moderate the moderator(s)?
;-)

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: "newsman", not "newsboy".
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." - Carl
Sagan

On 12 Oct, 03:45, Dawlish wrote:

Why should I engage with someone who has such a grudge and cannot
appreciate a different opinion to their own, but I will reply?

I bear no grudge to your forecasting opinion. Much like you've not
managed to find an example of me having a dig at your forecast that
went wrong, I bear no grudge, I just don't agree with how you verify
your method.

You say
I "brag" - which I certainly don't. I've just returned to every one of
the 92 forecasts over 5 years, which have a 78% success rate over the
times I've forecasted: fact.

As you've told us over and over again. And I maintain that this is an
accurate guide to your accuracy. Judge yourself by how all other
forecasting houses are judged: over every day of every year. Why don't
you try and do that instead?

That's hardly a "brag", but you don't
like that figure, do you?

I don't because it's an incorrect guide to the accuracy. I have no
iota of jealousy towards your accuracy because it's not an accurate
measuring of forecasting accuracy. I do wonder sometimes whether I'm
talking to a brick wall.

Neither do a few others and that's just
tough. The fact won't change. Outcome success percentage is the only
judge of forecasting success and I see other individuals (whom I don't
compete with at all and always say so) claiming success with no decent
outcome success. I'll challenge that with good reason. I know you
don't like the word "outcomes" either, but that's not my problem.

For outcomes, read "selective outcomes".

You won't try it as you *know* you'll make more mistakes
than I do.

How wonderfully, wonderfully arrogant of you. Do you ever wonder why
people don't take much of a shine to you?

If you ever do decide to criticise; expect a robust defence. No
foulness, no abuse from me, ever, even under the worst provocation
imaginable (and you see it and by your silence, condone it. That
really does get ignored.)

The thing is whenever I do criticise, you go incredibly, incredibly
defensive. Maybe you don't notice it.

Richard

????everything snipped!

Unfortunately/fortunately, as I understand it, Google & uk.sci.weather have
no linkage that allows Google to stop a someone posting. Google *might*
block a user who has a gmail account and/or uses Google to post subject to
proper evidence and statistics. They cannot prevent a poster who does not
use their service from posting to uk.sci.weather. Abuse, however it's
defined, can be reported to the ISP provider or the newsgroup host...there
are an awful lot of newsgroup sites and ISP providers.

Because this is an un-moderated forum it is practically impossible to *ban*
anyone from posting permanently. You might be able to interrupt the posts
while an account is suspended but it's very easy to access the newsgroup
from elsewhere.

If anyone does not want to read the post of someone else then suggest you
get Windows Live Mail (yuk), Outlook Express (Win XP...it's ok) or the other
readers commented on by others. Control is yours to block or hide a poster,
or create rules to bin them. There are limitations though when the
"innocent" post a reply that contains un-edited content from whoever it is
you want to...avoid.


Looks like the High is reaching the limits of its retrogression...as is the
patience of a lot of people posting to this thread.

Great weather all the same.


Joe

On 12 Oct, 14:17, John F wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:06:44 -0700, Dawlish wrote:
I didn't think you'd be able to resist and you were one I named. Post
reported. Safely ignored.

The longer this goes on the funnier I'm finding it.
Is rattle throwing going to be included in the next olympics?

I've just got to the end of this thread. uk.sci.eastenders, anyone?!
Absolutely hilarious. I best get back up my tree before I get reported
to "Sir".

Richard

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:26:08 -0700, Richard Dixon wrote:

On 12 Oct, 14:17, John F wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:06:44 -0700, Dawlish wrote:
I didn't think you'd be able to resist and you were one I named. Post
reported. Safely ignored.

The longer this goes on the funnier I'm finding it. Is rattle throwing
going to be included in the next olympics?

I've just got to the end of this thread. uk.sci.eastenders, anyone?!
Absolutely hilarious. I best get back up my tree before I get reported
to "Sir".

Richard

Yes, Will showed a lot of foresight when he titled the thread.
It's a real shame though, I used to really enjoy the mix of good humour
and knowledge in this group.

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 16:42, cupra scribbled:

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 13:07, Graham Easterling scribbled:

OK Smallbabe (remember her eh Dawlish?). I'm so ****ed off with the
bulk of the posts on USW that I'm now giving up for good, not just for
a couple of months like last time.

Please don't give up on us, Graham. Is there any particular reason why
you can't use a newsreader so that you can set up filters for ignoring
certain people? I find it a real boon.

Yep, I find Graham's posts informative and helpful too - I don't use a
killfile and rely on ignoring posts.... I hope regulars won't the furore
around one person kill the ng!

All my filters do is mark posts read so that I don't have to bother with
them. The system's there to ignore posts for me so why not use it. Instead
of getting themselves in a tizzy, others would be better off doing the
same
instead of sounding the retreat. It's the one's running away who will
cause
the downfall of the group, not the ones they're running away from.

I've seen elsewhere reasonable and well mannered ng posters driven off by
constant noise - I'm thicker skinned than a lot but I can fully understand
why people say 'enough is enough'. Personalities, I suppose....



Other option is a moderated group? Bit of a backward step IMO but it
would
keep the 'community' together....

Ah, but who'd moderate the group and how long would it be before people
complained about being unfairly treated. Who'd moderate the moderator(s)?
;-)

lol - that being the major downfall of moderated ngs!

In article ,
cupra writes:
snip
I've seen elsewhere reasonable and well mannered ng posters driven off
by constant noise - I'm thicker skinned than a lot but I can fully
understand why people say 'enough is enough'. Personalities, I
suppose....

I suspect that things will improve when we reach the winter, and
hopefully have some more "interesting" weather to talk about.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)