Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

DougW wrote:
> Tom Greening wrote:
>
>
>> With that said, a killfile is an excellent tool. I would suggest you,
>> your friends, and just about everyone else in your group make use of
>> it. It would surely cut down on your aggravation level, and Bill
>> without an audience is like a dog without a bone.
>
> what part about 24bit being a gormless troll are you missing on here?
> I have yet to see ANY posts from 24bit that even remotely pertain to
> this newsgroups charter. At least Bill is a good source of information.
>


And what part about bill being a pompous ass don't you get? I didn't
intend for my mildly worded comment to turn into attacks on anyone. I
voiced my opinion to this person and in a round about way suggested he
and all his buddies use their kill file option to eliminate bill from
their world, thereby affording them the opportunity to get on with life
and leave this group alone.

Troll he may be with little to offer. Bill is not much better and like
I said, IMO, his benefits do not outweigh the costs of dealing with him.

Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

Dave Milne wrote:
> My mother used to tell me that if I had nothing good to say, it was better
> to keep my mouth shut. If both you, Bill and 24 bits adopted this principle,
> the rest of us might get some peace.
>


There's no way you can put me in the same category as Bill Dave. On my
worst days I haven't come anywhere close to generating the amount of
white noise that he has.

Anyway, enough of that subject. Can we agree on that?

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

Dave Milne wrote:
> My mother used to tell me that if I had nothing good to say, it was better
> to keep my mouth shut. If both you, Bill and 24 bits adopted this principle,
> the rest of us might get some peace.
>


There's no way you can put me in the same category as Bill Dave. On my
worst days I haven't come anywhere close to generating the amount of
white noise that he has.

Anyway, enough of that subject. Can we agree on that?

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

Dave Milne wrote:
> My mother used to tell me that if I had nothing good to say, it was better
> to keep my mouth shut. If both you, Bill and 24 bits adopted this principle,
> the rest of us might get some peace.
>


There's no way you can put me in the same category as Bill Dave. On my
worst days I haven't come anywhere close to generating the amount of
white noise that he has.

Anyway, enough of that subject. Can we agree on that?

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

Tom Greening wrote:

> And what part about bill being a pompous ass don't you get?

Every newsgroup has at least one. Bill is ours. :) But he
also is a very good source of information.

> I didn't intend for my mildly worded comment to turn into attacks on anyone.

Didn't take it that way. Mearly pointed out that 24bit like the others
are poster children from auk that could not cut it with professional kooks
and had to go searching elsewhere. Doesn't take much googling to figure out
who 24bit is and how soundly he got thwacked over in auk.

> Troll he may be with little to offer. Bill is not much better and
> like I said, IMO, his benefits do not outweigh the costs of dealing
> with him.

I do wish Bill would just apply ye olde KF and forget it.

> Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.

You didn't offend me. I've been around this usenet thingy since
the days of fido. :) It takes a lot to offend me.

--
DougW

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

Tom Greening wrote:

> And what part about bill being a pompous ass don't you get?

Every newsgroup has at least one. Bill is ours. :) But he
also is a very good source of information.

> I didn't intend for my mildly worded comment to turn into attacks on anyone.

Didn't take it that way. Mearly pointed out that 24bit like the others
are poster children from auk that could not cut it with professional kooks
and had to go searching elsewhere. Doesn't take much googling to figure out
who 24bit is and how soundly he got thwacked over in auk.

> Troll he may be with little to offer. Bill is not much better and
> like I said, IMO, his benefits do not outweigh the costs of dealing
> with him.

I do wish Bill would just apply ye olde KF and forget it.

> Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.

You didn't offend me. I've been around this usenet thingy since
the days of fido. :) It takes a lot to offend me.

--
DougW

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

Tom Greening wrote:

> And what part about bill being a pompous ass don't you get?

Every newsgroup has at least one. Bill is ours. :) But he
also is a very good source of information.

> I didn't intend for my mildly worded comment to turn into attacks on anyone.

Didn't take it that way. Mearly pointed out that 24bit like the others
are poster children from auk that could not cut it with professional kooks
and had to go searching elsewhere. Doesn't take much googling to figure out
who 24bit is and how soundly he got thwacked over in auk.

> Troll he may be with little to offer. Bill is not much better and
> like I said, IMO, his benefits do not outweigh the costs of dealing
> with him.

I do wish Bill would just apply ye olde KF and forget it.

> Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.

You didn't offend me. I've been around this usenet thingy since
the days of fido. :) It takes a lot to offend me.

--
DougW

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

DougW wrote:
>> Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.
>
> You didn't offend me. I've been around this usenet thingy since
> the days of fido. :) It takes a lot to offend me.
>


Dayyyum, you must be on Old Fart like me then. I remember being tickled
stupid when I started carrying Fido on my old BBS. I think back on it
now and don't understand why ANYbody bothered maintaining a bbs since it
was nothing but non stop work with way more than a guys fair share of
butt-heads trying to abuse your system. Still, it was fun. I was in
the store the other day and picked up a 40gig portable hard drive that
fit in the palm of my hand and cost $50. I was remembering that back
when I bought a MONSTER (to me) 80 meg hard drive for my board, that
that 40 gigger would have cost on the order of $40,000.

Why is it that computer hardware has increased in performance by many
orders of magnitude, yet costs a fraction of what it did then, computer
games can cost many MILLIONS to produce today but cost less than they
did 20 years ago (adjusted for inflation), but jeep/automobile
technology hasn't seen any truly mind boggling changes yet costs 3-5
times what it did back when I bought my smokin commodore vic-20?

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

DougW wrote:
>> Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.
>
> You didn't offend me. I've been around this usenet thingy since
> the days of fido. :) It takes a lot to offend me.
>


Dayyyum, you must be on Old Fart like me then. I remember being tickled
stupid when I started carrying Fido on my old BBS. I think back on it
now and don't understand why ANYbody bothered maintaining a bbs since it
was nothing but non stop work with way more than a guys fair share of
butt-heads trying to abuse your system. Still, it was fun. I was in
the store the other day and picked up a 40gig portable hard drive that
fit in the palm of my hand and cost $50. I was remembering that back
when I bought a MONSTER (to me) 80 meg hard drive for my board, that
that 40 gigger would have cost on the order of $40,000.

Why is it that computer hardware has increased in performance by many
orders of magnitude, yet costs a fraction of what it did then, computer
games can cost many MILLIONS to produce today but cost less than they
did 20 years ago (adjusted for inflation), but jeep/automobile
technology hasn't seen any truly mind boggling changes yet costs 3-5
times what it did back when I bought my smokin commodore vic-20?

Re: Dear Llewellyn REALLY SCREWED UP yet again
 

DougW wrote:
>> Sorry if I offended you and I mean that honestly.
>
> You didn't offend me. I've been around this usenet thingy since
> the days of fido. :) It takes a lot to offend me.
>


Dayyyum, you must be on Old Fart like me then. I remember being tickled
stupid when I started carrying Fido on my old BBS. I think back on it
now and don't understand why ANYbody bothered maintaining a bbs since it
was nothing but non stop work with way more than a guys fair share of
butt-heads trying to abuse your system. Still, it was fun. I was in
the store the other day and picked up a 40gig portable hard drive that
fit in the palm of my hand and cost $50. I was remembering that back
when I bought a MONSTER (to me) 80 meg hard drive for my board, that
that 40 gigger would have cost on the order of $40,000.

Why is it that computer hardware has increased in performance by many
orders of magnitude, yet costs a fraction of what it did then, computer
games can cost many MILLIONS to produce today but cost less than they
did 20 years ago (adjusted for inflation), but jeep/automobile
technology hasn't seen any truly mind boggling changes yet costs 3-5
times what it did back when I bought my smokin commodore vic-20?