"Dave Ludlow" wrote :
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:43:56 -0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

"Keith(Southend)" wrote:
Philip Eden wrote:

In 2009 we have already reached 304 days, and with no sign of
anything in the next two weeks or so.

Are you winding us up Philip

Well, I might be, or I might be just avvinalaff, or I might think I
know something no-one else does, or I might be having a
contrariwise punt, or it might just be sly way of discovering
whether anyone reads my posts any more. On this evidence,
not many.

I did... and I knew what you were doing. It worked.

No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Philip

On 16 Dec, 18:33, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Hi, Philip,

This group is dying, sadly.
The few that remain are so loud and up their own that they have failed
to notice the lack of posts from many old-time regulars - me included
(:0(
Time to move elsewhere??

Bye for now,
Ken
Copley, Teesdale

"Ken Cook" wrote in message
...
On 16 Dec, 18:33, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Hi, Philip,

This group is dying, sadly.
The few that remain are so loud and up their own that they have failed
to notice the lack of posts from many old-time regulars - me included
(:0(
Time to move elsewhere??

Bye for now,
Ken
Copley, Teesdale


I'm still around Ken and Paul Bartlett is back, or aren't we old enough :-)
Where would you go anyway, you wouldn't like the pace of TWO I should think!

Will
--

"Will Hand" wrote in message
...

"Ken Cook" wrote in message
...
On 16 Dec, 18:33, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Hi, Philip,

This group is dying, sadly.
The few that remain are so loud and up their own that they have failed
to notice the lack of posts from many old-time regulars - me included
(:0(
Time to move elsewhere??

Bye for now,
Ken
Copley, Teesdale


I'm still around Ken and Paul Bartlett is back, or aren't we old enough
:-)
Where would you go anyway, you wouldn't like the pace of TWO I should
think!

Will
--

Of all the forums I still rank UKWeatherWorld as the most civil,
informative, patient(!), fairly well moderated and probably least populated
of the bunch....IMO.

It's a pity you can't start a thread with edit rights only to a group while
I'd be happy just to have read access...!

Joe



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On 2009-12-16, Ken Cook wrote:
On 16 Dec, 18:33, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Hi, Philip,

This group is dying, sadly.
The few that remain are so loud and up their own that they have failed
to notice the lack of posts from many old-time regulars - me included
(:0(

Depends what newsreader you use. The group is very useful and
informative for me, but then again I use a proper newsreader with a
well-configured killfile. I only see idiots when non-idiots (or
semi-idiots) quote them.

useful newsreaders:

unix or linux: slrn
windows: slrn, turnpike, agent

there are more, but those are the ones I have experience with. All of
them have good killfiling abilities, though slrn has the best and is
free. I have found thunderbird is not too clever when it comes to
newsgroups.

--
comp.john

"Ken Cook" schreef in bericht
...
: This group is dying, sadly.
: The few that remain are so loud and up their own that they have failed
: to notice the lack of posts from many old-time regulars - me included
: (:0(

I think you are too pessimistic, Ken.

I have just counted 171 posts today between 00.00 and 23.08 Belgian time ...
and it hasn't really started snowing yet.

Only a small number contain the vituperative arguments which I think most of
us don't like.

The more positive and constructive posts people make, the less the
objectionable ones will be noticed.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom schreef in bericht
...
: No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
: you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
: reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Set your viewing parameters for the NG to exclude posters or threads that
you don't want to see. Continue to post positive contributions and ignore
those which are not. The more constructive posts there are, the less the
objectionable ones will stand out.

.... and I do read all your posts - including the one about snow-free
periods, but I was not quite sure what to make of it !

Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:33:25 -0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

... and I knew what you were doing. It worked.

No less perspicacious than I would have expected of
you, Dave .... so what do you think we might we try to
reduce all the off-topic bo11ocks that's ruining the group?

Well Philip, it's unmoderated so unfortunately hard to stop.

I get round it by having a better newsreader than OE (Forte Agent),
which lets me display posts however I like, by Date, Author, Thread
etc. and it's easy to skip past "problem" threads at a glance, they
collapse into a single line and are usually obvious from the thread
title or the author's name. There are alternatives to Agent, some are
even better.

I can "kill" any thread or author so that further messages are either
marked as read or deleted. I can re-sort at the click of a mouse by
Date, Author, Thread etc. to find old stuff (like your post in this
thread that I remembered, found and replied to after a few days) or I
can search for messsages by title, date or content.

I use Giganews, which currently has 6 years of text posts on its
servers, so I have on my computer every post in the NG from 2003
without having to use the Google Groups archive at all, except for
earlier posts. Can be handy.

The long and short of it is that I rarely get bothered by the
off-topic bo11ocks. My humble apologies if you already know all this.

--
Dave