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Waves a flag of truce

David Butter

Waves a flag of truce

by David Butter » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:46:56

I don't know why I'm doing this: it's not as though I've contributed
anything much here of late... but speaking as someone who has never
been connected with [something beginning with R - Ed], at least you can
all join forces and throw insults at me instead.

The fact is, this NG is currently more depressing to read than I can
remember. Sure, that's only three years, but even so. I subscribe to
this group because I greatly enjoy sim racing. I can get flamewars
anywhere, but so far as Usenet goes, this is the one and only place for
such discussion. And as I say, it's deeply depressing to fire up Xnews
every day and find a dozen more threads of (often quite personal)
abuse.

I fully expect some of the flak now to come in my direction, but I
expect I can cope with that... so for heaven's sake, can you please
stop this? Hammering out arguments is one thing, and that's fine by me.
But as I say, far too much of it is people being thoroughly unpleasant
to each other to an extent that really isn't necessary.

Oh, and please don't tell me to keep my nose out of something that
doesn't concern me. If it's on ras it concerns every ras subscriber. If
you don't want to talk to the whole of ras, then you should be talking
somewhere else. Okay, open season on me now - I shall be off to other
NGs for a while, so you can get a shot in without fear of retaliation.
:-(

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Haqsa

Waves a flag of truce

by Haqsa » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:13:31

Well put.  I think certain people have forgotten how many people read this
newsgroup but just lurk.  Thousands probably, maybe tens of thousands.  And
certain people are having a little catfight in front of all those tens of
thousands of silent onlookers.  Really embarassing.  Although probably also
kind of amusing to some.  And not in a good way.


Tim Paulli

Waves a flag of truce

by Tim Paulli » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:18:23

well said David

Tim


ae

Waves a flag of truce

by ae » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:13:39

On 27 Aug 2003 01:46:56 GMT, David Buttery


>The fact is, this NG is currently more depressing to read than I can
>remember. Sure, that's only three years, but even so. I subscribe to
>this group because I greatly enjoy sim racing. I can get flamewars
>anywhere, but so far as Usenet goes, this is the one and only place for
>such discussion. And as I say, it's deeply depressing to fire up Xnews
>every day and find a dozen more threads of (often quite personal)
>abuse.

There were originally only about 3 threads, which anyone with a half
decent newsreader could simply just ignore if they chose. The "dozen
more threads" are whiners like you who don't understand Usenet who
create a pointless new thread moaning about the other threads.

Andrew.

David Butter

Waves a flag of truce

by David Butter » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:57:00


Mea culpa so far as not sticking RASCAR in my subject line goes -
that's rectified now. However, I think you'll find that XNews is
generally considered a half decent newsreader.

The rest is just personal abuse, so I'll ignore it.

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