I never insulted Gene either. He just found it frustrating and impossible
to keep up with my razor-sharp mind.


"jim--" wrote in message
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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:41:54 -0500, "jim--" wrote:


"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
.. .

Harry Krawse seems to be your "textbook example" of what is wrong
with
this
NG. Combined with Chuck Gould they have managed to take this NG
from
a
boating NG to a political one.

But I see you have not filtered him out as you respond to some of
his
posts.

Will you be doing so in the near future? And have you add Chuck to
your
ignore filter also? Or is it only the people who have different
political
views (from yours) that you filter and bitch about?

Me thinks so.


Jim,

I have told Harry that he posts too much off topic. He does.

My standard, and it is admittedly somewhat subjective, is how much a
person *does* post on topic vs. his/her total posts tempered with
their stated intent. Harry has always been civil to me, even though
we stood toe-to-toe when I supported Bush in the last election. I
questioned his position, his sources, and his conclusions.... net
result was that (1) he was always a gentleman about it and (2) I
found
*myself* posting *WAY* too much off topic. I filter most of Harry's
posts by filters created to cleanse my downloads of off topic
content,
whether it be liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, whatever.
*ANY* OT content (detected by the software) goes in the bozo bin
without regard to the poster's identity.

My *REAL PROBLEM(s)* have been with those who almost *NEVER* (or
truly
never) post on topic. They come here to disrupt the newsgroup for
their own selfish reasons. Some have gone to the extreme lengths of
posting hundreds of off topic posts, admitting that they never come
here to discuss boating (since they go to other sites for ON-topic
posts) and then having the unmitigated gall to secretively email
those alternate sites as the alternative to get away from their
disruptive OT postings. Clearly, their hate is directed at
rec.boats.
I don't get it. Do you?

Understand that nearly all of my filters relate to *content* not
identities. The few people that I have killfiled by name or alias
have earned that dubious distinction by going out of their way to be
purposefully incendiary and predominantly off topic.

Bait *me* and you will *surely* end up in the bozo-bin. Such was
NOYB's fate.

You know... whatever you are using for a newsreader isn't clever
enough to remove signatures. How about editing the chaff out?


Show me whe

1. Harry does not insult someone in his reply to their post
disagreeing
with his.


He hasn't insulted me. He has made posts to people that are probably
inappropriate, but these tend to be those that come here to be
incendiary. If you are so inclined, "Live by the sword, die by the
sword." I don't care to take part.

2. Harry posts boating related topics.


Have at it, if you are really interested:
http://tinyurl.com/278a3


*He* is the center of the problem. Concentrate your efforts (to
improve
the
group) at him.


You are blind to the point that *ALL* off topic posts are equally to
blame. If *you* stop contributing to the problem, others will stop,
too. Do you want them to stop?


Your allegiance to the man is clear. No need for any further discussion.