Very well put ac.....
"ac" <a@a.com> wrote in message news:42A8D3B5.7C0E1913@a.com...
>I know some here will see this as a flame ... but it's not meant that way -
> more a gentle reminder to all us "experts" out there.
>
> Posters - (as with all facets of life) - come in all flavours. As do
> models -
> there are big ones, hairy ones, beautiful ones ... and some less so (to
> some
> viewers anyhow).
>
> What they all have in common ... is that they are willing to take their
> own
> time, bandwidth and self esteem to risk posting to one or many groups
> (hell....
> sam I'm, matilda and mudbone (I'll include him) as well as some others
> post an
> incredible amount to an incredible number of groups).
> They are the people who keep the groups going - not the occasional posters
> and
> especially not those who use the groups to ...(you know the rest).
>
> My feeling (for what it's worth - not much I know) is ... that if the
> groups
> had shareholders ... shares would be issued based on the number of posts
> each
> member contributes to the groups (not according to how long someone has
> been
> around flinging insults). I know Mud can be a bit of a maverick and tends
> to
> cross post more than he should .. (but then so do many others).
>
> Like them or hate them ... they are all contributors .... and as such they
> have
> a say.
>
> If you don't like them (like every other poster's ID) they can easily be
> avoided by using a filter (also known as a "kill" file by the more
> inadequate)
> to exclude them from your download.
>
> I use this very method to exclude some of the more blatant posters - and
> it
> works well.
>
> The "experts" on the other hand are a fair sized group of individuals who
> contribute nothing - yet feel they have the right to belittle those who do
> post
> or appear in posts. Whenever you think ... I've not seen a post
> from..____ for
> ages .... It's generally thanks to one of the "experts" that they have
> stopped. Good job guys!.
>
> They generally also take great satisfaction in recommending "grown up
> browsers"
> which have the very exclusion facilities they seem unable to master
> themselves. And even more pleasure in insulting posters or their models.
>
> Surely when someone gives you something ..... you should thank them ...
> If you take something on offer, and find you don't like it
> (I exclude the pedes from this .... It's a pity that they can avoid
> detection
> so easily... )
> ... just don't take another.....don't whine.
>
> However good the poster - I don't like everything I see... that's called
> taste
> - I don't slavishly accept everything from anyone.
> However bad ...I often find there is something worth looking at.... but
> It's my
> choice to look .... and my fault if I've wasted my own time looking ...
> and
> found nothing ... again .... If I then whine that the poster is rubbish
> ....
> I'm actually criticising myself .....
>
> So ..... How many shares do you guys have?
> Next time you see something you don't like, try finding your browser's
> manual -
> and read up on filters ..... rather that for the reply button.
>
> Non-posters however are always fair game, no-one owes them anything -
> however
> "expert" they consider themselves.
>
> ac <];o)
>
>
>
>
>
> Commentator wrote:
>
>> You wanted to challenge Sam to a post-off. I do not know for sure what
>> that
>> means, but should you not increase the quality of your posts up to his
>> standards before you challenge him to anything that has to do with
>> posting
>> pictures to this group?
>>
>> I do not know about others but I have saved almost everything that Sam
>> has
>> posted and I just browse thru couple pictures of your posts without
>> saving
>> them, I just don't find your posts as interesting as Sam's, waste of time
>> and space more than anything else.
>>
>> If you would stop posting to this group it would not be as great loss to
>> the group as if Sam would stop posting, think about it.
>>
>> ps.
>>
>> Everything above is just my opinion and I do not claim to reflect the
>> opinion of the group.
>
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