On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 Michael Trew wrote:
>On 1/6/2022 Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> On January 6, 2022 Sheldon wrote:
>>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 Gary wrote:
>>>> On 1/5/2022 GM wrote:
>>>>> Looks like Miss Bwuthie is trying to evade killfiles again, she is
>>>>> now posting under an "Arnie" moniker...
>>>>
>>>> Real Bruce is not trying to evade killfiles, he's trying to stay one
>>>> step ahead of his personal frogger trollie.
>>> I stopped opening all Bruce posts a while ago and now I don't open
>>> Arnie posts.
>>>
>> Killfiles are from the age of limited bandwidth. Now, one can just
>> not open posts.
>>
>> --Bryan
>
>Even if not on dial-up, it's still a nice thing to get rid of the
>garbage posts, and have less stuff to sort through. I'd be here almost
>3 hours a day if I read all messages, and responded to many.
I never use my killfile, it'd just becomes something I'd need to
remember to update. I find it easier to remember the few posters
whose posts I don't read, in fact when I bring in a batch of posts the
first thing I do is delete their posts and move right along. And I
have a system for eliminating wasting time, when I look at a thread
anyone who posts more than two posts in a row I delete... some posters
make 9-10 posts in a row, those are easy to spot and I delete them all
at once.
And then there are those posters who I should delete unread but since
they are entertaining in a morbid sort of way and are one liners I
read them, like Kootchie, who never types much. Some posters can type
thousands of words and say nothing, those I know to delete after the
first 3 lines.
To me Newsgroup posts are either informative or amusing, if not I
delete those unread. I generally don't read recipes because I don't
cook by recipes, I use no recipe to cook beef stew for instance, that
I cook pretty much by what's in my fridge. Natcherally if I don't
have any potatoes, carrots onions and beef scratch beef stew, and
dinner can easily become pork chops, I always stock up on pork chops,
and they defrost quickly. And then there's always eggs. I rarely buy
chicken, sometimes skinless boneless chicken breasts for cutlets... or
it's far easier to pick up a rotisserie chicken from the local market,
all cooked and ready to eat for $5... goes well with fly lice or egg
noodles and a veggie, we always have bags of frozen mixed veggies.