Nitram

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:54:44 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:28:23 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:57:34 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
    > ... wrote:
    > ...
    > ... >On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:40:47 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    > ... >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... >
    > ... > ... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:31:53 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
    > ... > ... wrote:
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... > ... > ... >Moreover, Titan is a personage of Greek mythology, thus European. QED.
    > ... > ... > ... > ...
    > ... > ... > ... > ... Huygens was the Dutch astronomer, who discovered Titan.
    > ... > ... > ... >
    > ... > ... > ... >See ? Business kept in the family ! :))
    > ... > ... > ...
    > ... > ... > ... I don't see. What are you talking about?
    > ... > ... >
    > ... > ... >Why, when did the Netherlands leave the EU ??
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... It's a trick question? Right? Can I consult a friend?
    > ... >
    > ... >The wife is not available ? I've heard she is quite a brain. :)
    > ...
    > ... Women are no good at trick questions.
    > ...
    > ... :-)
    >You are not better at all - are you a woman ?
    >Na !

    :-)
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Martin

EvelynVogtGamble

Tim Challenger wrote:

    > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:30:09 -0500, Miss L. Toe wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Or simply ignore any posts on threads that were started more than 2 days
    >>previously.
    >
    >
    > Cynic! :)

She's most likely right, you know - two days is generally
enough time for everything of relevance to have been said
(sometimes twice over), so unless you happen to find one of
the many tangents of interest, it's probably safe to stop
reading the thread.

EvelynVogtGamble

nitram wrote:

    > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:02:45 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >
    >
    >>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:38:22 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    >>some electrons, so they looked like this :
    >>... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:14:21 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
    >>... wrote:
    >>...
    >>... >On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:44:23 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "Lennart Petersen"
    >>... ><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    >>... >
    >>... > ...
    >>... > ... "Bob Houha" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
    >>... > ... news:[email protected] m...
    >>... > ... > After 30 plus yerars of travel throughout Europe I have enjoyed reading
    >>... > ... > Rec Travel Europe daily for better than five years. I have learned much
    >>... > ... > from many great people and have contributed to a few.
    >>... > ... >
    >>... > ... > It seems as if a few have taken the news group over as some sort of game
    >>... > ... > or for personal expression. It also looks as if the number of requests for
    >>... > ... > information has dropped and that many may have given up on the group, as I
    >>... > ... > will have to do if this keeps up.
    >>... > ... >
    >>... > ... > Please lets get back to the original board.
    >>... > ... Tried counting the 100 head lines on top and found, with my definitions, 92
    >>... > ... being on-topic and 8 off-topic. So it's more or less o.k
    >>... > ... Most odd is that Earl have now extended the n.g not only outside Europe but
    >>... > ... also to Titan !!
    >>... > ... But it's an European project after all so maybe.
    >>... >
    >>... >Moreover, Titan is a personage of Greek mythology, thus European. QED.
    >>...
    >>... Huygens was the Dutch astronomer, who discovered Titan.
    >>See ? Business kept in the family ! :))
    >
    >
    > I don't see. What are you talking about?

I presume she means the "European family" - Greek, Dutch,
whatever - it all relates to r.t.e. ;-)

Go Fig

In article <1gqjy9d.mzb3nd1rzjipvN%this_address_is_for_spam@y ahoo.com>,
chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > > He complained
    > > that Jack was a spammer (which he was NOT), and persuaded
    > > Jack's ISP to cancel his account.
    >
    > Wow- I obviously wasn't reading around then. I remember his posts, and I
    > enjoyed them.

He left, IIRC, cause of the attacks he got from his signature which
contained a link to his jewelry biz and other absurd manifestations
centered around his work and trolling for clients here...

I did always suggest that he post his entire review here, as opposed to
a link... when he did... it was always a good starting point for good
specific discussions on specific places.

jay
Mon Jan 17, 2005
mailto:[email protected]

EvelynVogtGamble

Miguel Cruz wrote:

    > Yves Bellefeuille <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>In any event, everybody would be free to use either the existing
    >>unmoderated group or the new moderated group, as they prefer.
    >
    >
    > For an example of how well that works, take a look at
    > misc.transport.air-industry, created as a moderated alternative to
    > rec.travel.air. Almost every single post comes from one of the moderators,
    > or is a thread hijacked from rec.travel.air.
    >
    > Nobody uses moderated groups. They're either someone's (or some clique's)
    > private empire, or completely devoid of the conversation that keeps regular
    > posters interested.

Speaking of "Off-Topic", as of this posting (without
downloading anything subsequent to three hours ago) there
are already 75 posts to this thread. The OP must be livid!
(Unless, as I suspect, he's just a clever troll.)

Nitram

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:43:06 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >>>See ? Business kept in the family ! :))
    >>
    >>
    >> I don't see. What are you talking about?
    >I presume she means the "European family" - Greek, Dutch,
    >whatever - it all relates to r.t.e. ;-)

Duh!
--
Martin

Magda

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:05:05 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:43:06 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
... <[email protected]> wrote:
...
...
... >>>See ? Business kept in the family ! :))
... >>
... >>
... >> I don't see. What are you talking about?
... >
... >I presume she means the "European family" - Greek, Dutch,
... >whatever - it all relates to r.t.e. ;-)
...
... Duh!

Ha ! Serves you right - you did need a woman to "translate"...
I *told* you to call the missus !...

Nitram

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:50:17 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:05:05 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:43:06 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
    > ... <[email protected]> wrote:
    > ...
    > ...
    > ... >>>See ? Business kept in the family ! :))
    > ... >>
    > ... >>
    > ... >> I don't see. What are you talking about?
    > ... >
    > ... >I presume she means the "European family" - Greek, Dutch,
    > ... >whatever - it all relates to r.t.e. ;-)
    > ...
    > ... Duh!
    >Ha ! Serves you right - you did need a woman to "translate"...
    >I *told* you to call the missus !...

I was looking for something subtle, not blindingly obvious.
--
Martin

Yves Bellefeuille

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Miguel Cruz wrote:

    > Nobody uses moderated groups. They're either someone's (or some clique's)
    > private empire, or completely devoid of the conversation that keeps regular
    > posters interested.

On the other hand, soc.history.war.world-war-ii, another moderated group,
gets an average of 150 posts per day. Comp.risks gets two or three posts a
month, and is considered one of the most important groups in Usenet.
There's no general rule.

Yves Bellefeuille
<[email protected]>

Deep Foiled Malls

On 17 Jan 2005 21:19:20 GMT, BB <[email protected]> wrote:

    >I filter based on some words (e.g. Iraq, Frog) and cross-post references
    >(e.g. alt.politics.*), but looking at Google it doesn't appear that these
    >are really needed at this point in time. And who knows, I might be missing
    >some info on where to get the best frog legs in Europe.

...or Iraq.

(I just had to get in before Martin!)
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Deep Foiled Malls

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:20:00 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Yves Bellefeuille wrote:

    >> I don't think that "cleaning" a newsgroup is as easy as you suggest,
    >> especially for less experienced users. If it were, there wouldn't be any
    >> moderated groups.
    >You would consider that a BAD thing? Most people with a few
    >ounces of brainmatter can quickly figure out how to scroll
    >past posts that don't interest them, whether or not they
    >understand how to set filters (or want to bother doing so).
    > To many posters to Usenet, "moderated" equates to
    >"censored", a condition we prefer to avoid whenever possible!

The 'noise' of usenet is one of the best features. Means that I can do
the filtering, and no-one else. You get good at it after a while.
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Szozu

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > szozu wrote:
    > > "Bob Houha" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > > news:[email protected] m...
    > >
    > >
    > >>It seems as if a few have taken the news group over as some sort of game
    > >
    > > or
    > >
    > >>for personal expression. It also looks as if the number of requests for
    > >>information has dropped and that many may have given up on the group, as
I
    > >>will have to do if this keeps up.
    > >
    > >
    > > Complete and utter nonsense. This ng works quite well indeed and one of
the
    > > delights of Usenet is the freedom to chit-chat and be a wiseguy at
times,
    > > instead of merely feeding out dry snippets of information.
    > >
    > > For that matter, I can't recall Bob Houha being a participant for all
the
    > > years that I have been reading this group. Perhaps he is a taker and not
a
    > > giver of information?
    > You and I seem to be kindred spirits, Lana! (At least about
    > some things.) Most of us here, I think, look upon this
    > newsgroup as being in the nature of a travel "chat room",
    > where we can discuss not only specific travel subjects, but
    > also the interesting tangents which arise from the initial
    > topic.

I look at Usenet as one big conversation, so just as in real life, though
you may get together with a group of people to celebrate the birth of a
baby, but you generally do not continue to talk strictly about the baby for
the rest of the evening!

Lana

Magda

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:51:48 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:50:17 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
... wrote:
...
... >On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:05:05 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
... >some electrons, so they looked like this :
... >
... > ... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:43:06 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
... > ... <[email protected]> wrote:
... > ...
... > ...
... > ... >>>See ? Business kept in the family ! :))
... > ... >>
... > ... >>
... > ... >> I don't see. What are you talking about?
... > ... >
... > ... >I presume she means the "European family" - Greek, Dutch,
... > ... >whatever - it all relates to r.t.e. ;-)
... > ...
... > ... Duh!
... >
... >Ha ! Serves you right - you did need a woman to "translate"...
... >I *told* you to call the missus !...
...
... I was looking for something subtle, not blindingly obvious.

Midi à 14 heures, huh ?
;))

Gregory Morrow

Deep Foiled Malls wrote:

    > The 'noise' of usenet is one of the best features. Means that I can do
    > the filtering, and no-one else. You get good at it after a while.


Yep, and flamery is also a wonderfully intrinsic part of Usenet...if folks
can't take being flamed they should either grow a thicker skin or ooze right
on out of whatever group they are participating in...

--
Best
Greg

Tim Challenger

    >> I guess this thread started from a claim that unmoderated groups are
    >> contaminated by few noisy bastards.

    > But, you haven't been posting here that much lately, have you? :)

<smirk>

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Tim C.