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In article ,
Col writes:

"John Hall" wrote in message
.. .
In article ,
Col writes:
If he really has a problem with me he just use his killfile
and be done with it.

Not everyone uses a newsreader that offers a killfile facility.

That's the adult way of dealing with people you don't get
along with, rather than acting like a big cry-baby and
essentially cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'm disappointed that you should have written that after I'd said that
you were one of the more constructive posters to this newsgroup. Please
don't prove me wrong.

Well quite.
See my reply to Will.
This was just a Usenet spat, but they can spiral out of control
if you're not careful and become feuds, and I don't do feuds :)

Good. That sounded more like the Col that I know. :)
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

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On Oct 13, 12:09*am, Adam Lea wrote:
On 12/10/11 20:23, Paul Bartlett wrote:

Well if you don't maintain the woodland then what are you going to fuel
your woodburner with? :-)
Adam - what you do (if you are nutty enough to be PC) is bury the wood
and wait a few million years 'till the sun weakens and then dig it
(the 'mature' wood) up and burn it as coal or peat. Called 'Energy
Conservation'.
I have sinned, I have also talked obvious twaddle, but I reckon you've
twisted it a bit. You only burn dead - or 'well seasoned' wood which
has lost its capacity for taking CO2 out the atmosphere - so you HAVE
to burn it to replenish the Co2 loss. If you don't the trees and most
other vegetation die - and we freeze to death.
I obviously hadn't thought it through. But thank you, I now feel
virtuous. I only bought it because it looks nice, produces a pleasant
heat, and smells pleasant, and it replaced the useless imitation gas
fire. Cheers (in shame) Paul

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Paul Bartlett wrote:

Thanks a lot for that. Cheers me up a bit,am a cold winter man
despite my great age and decrepitude.
Always celebrate a cold spell in winter by walking (hobbling) half a
mile to get a pint of real ale. That is what we formed the group for,
eaons ago, i.e the education of us all. Anyway may have a hobble down
to the Winsome Worm anyway. Incidently I gor the impression of La
Nina's demise from the press and the ecmwf seasonal.
Cheers Paul
---------------------------
That's why you guys formed it and that's why I and many others, joined
in so many years ago. We thank you for that. We have a learned a lot.
Perhaps some have lost their way and from time to time and of late, it
has become like a close knit family spending too long a Christmas together.
Dave

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you better open your eyes

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...er&sitesearch=

i accept your apology in advance john

On 13/10/2011 10:08 AM, John Hall wrote:

I've never seen Dawlish post anything that could be classed as Net
abuse.

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In article ,
OBee1Kanobee writes:

On 13/10/2011 10:08 AM, John Hall wrote:

I've never seen Dawlish post anything that could be classed as Net
abuse.

you better open your eyes

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&q=dawlish+nutter+denier&si
tesearch=

i accept your apology in advance john

That might be considered abusive, but it's not "Net abuse" as usually
defined, by which is meant abuse /of/ the Net rather than abuse /on/ the
Net (abuse /of/ the Net being things like forging someone else's
identity when making a post to make it look as if it came from them,
spam etc). You might think that I'm splitting hairs, but most ISPs will
only act over abuse /of/ the Net. Abuse /on/ the Net has always been
common and almost never acted against, though some might think that's a
pity. (Though calling someone a "nutter" seems pretty harmless compared
to some of the stuff I've seen over the years.)

I haven't just made the above up to suit my own argument. See for
example:

http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html#1.3

which has been in existence since the 1990s, for a fairly authoritative
definition of what is meant by "Net abuse".
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

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"Joe Whyte" wrote in news:j77a1v$12e$1
@news.albasani.net:

Reaction!??

Quite - and you can throw "attention" to that too!

Oh for the newsgroup of 10 years ago. I guess things come and go and have
their day...

Richard

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On 13/10/11 20:42, Paul Bartlett wrote:
On Oct 13, 12:09 am, Adam wrote:
On 12/10/11 20:23, Paul Bartlett wrote:

Well if you don't maintain the woodland then what are you going to fuel
your woodburner with? :-)
Adam - what you do (if you are nutty enough to be PC) is bury the wood
and wait a few million years 'till the sun weakens and then dig it
(the 'mature' wood) up and burn it as coal or peat. Called 'Energy
Conservation'.
I have sinned, I have also talked obvious twaddle, but I reckon you've
twisted it a bit. You only burn dead - or 'well seasoned' wood which
has lost its capacity for taking CO2 out the atmosphere - so you HAVE
to burn it to replenish the Co2 loss. If you don't the trees and most
other vegetation die - and we freeze to death.
I obviously hadn't thought it through. But thank you, I now feel
virtuous. I only bought it because it looks nice, produces a pleasant
heat, and smells pleasant, and it replaced the useless imitation gas
fire. Cheers (in shame) Paul

You do realise I was pulling your leg a little :-)

I quite fancy the idea of a woodburner, but retro-fitting one in a
standard semi without a chimney would likely be too impractical.

A few years ago I cut back several Buddleia bushes and ended up with a
huge stack of branches which took several months to get rid of (via the
council's brown wheelie bin). I couldn't help wishing at the time that I
had a way of harnessing the stored energy in the wood to heat the house
rather than wastefully throwing it away.

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"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
...
"Joe Whyte" wrote in news:j77a1v$12e$1
@news.albasani.net:

Reaction!??

Quite - and you can throw "attention" to that too!

Oh for the newsgroup of 10 years ago. I guess things come and go and have
their day...

Rose tinted spectacles perhaps?
There was never a 'Golden Age of Usenet' when people just
got on with each other.
Remember Matt Hugo and all the trouble surrounding him?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 at 19:58:57, Col wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

This was just a Usenet spat, but they can spiral out of control
if you're not careful and become feuds, and I don't do feuds :)

As long as they don't post like a broken record about a certain music
genre? :p
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

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In article ,
Col writes:

"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
.. .
"Joe Whyte" wrote in news:j77a1v$12e$1
@news.albasani.net:

Reaction!??

Quite - and you can throw "attention" to that too!

Oh for the newsgroup of 10 years ago. I guess things come and go and have
their day...

Rose tinted spectacles perhaps?
There was never a 'Golden Age of Usenet' when people just
got on with each other.
Remember Matt Hugo and all the trouble surrounding him?

And there was also the guy from Deal who would get abusive if his
promised snow didn't arrive.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw