So long, folks
Don Stauffer
turned into primarily a political discussion group, with only occasional
posts about digital photography. So long folks- FILE- SUBSCRIBE,
uncheck box.
ray
Ta ta - don't let the door hit your backside on the way out!
David Ruether
"ray" <r...@zianet.com> wrote in message news:7j18hqF...@mid.individual.net...
I wonder why Don Stauffer's post never appeared on my
newsreader... I would have suggested simply blocking threads
with offending titles, or just not opening them - although DS
would then have missed some very interesting discussions
(mixed in with a lot o' crap, though...;-).
--DR
Ray Fischer
Few things more pathetic that some baby whining that he's taking his
toys and leaving. Not that anybody will miss him since it doesn't
appear that he contributed anything anyway.
--
Ray Fischer
rfis...@sonic.net
Frank ess
Looks as if Ray and ray haven't been paying attention. Don Stauffer
has been a thoughtful, helpful, knowledgeable, and generous
contributor to this and several other groups.
Just because he isn't driven to make inane or deprecatory comments on
every wrinkle in the newsgroup continuum doesn't mean he's not a
valued asset.
Back in the day newsgroups were noted for useful discussions,
considered ideas, and careful fact-sharing. Since then the "look at
me!" mentality has taken over, and like a four-year-old, constant
noise and hand-waving has become the norm. Any kind of attention is
better than no attention. Now _that_ is pathetic.
"We become just by the practice of just actions,
self-controlled by exercising self-control,
and courageous by performing acts of courage."
--Aristotle
--
Frank ess
Charles
"Don Stauffer" <stau...@usfamily.net> wrote in message
news:4acb5f45$0$1328$815e...@news.qwest.net...
Don, I am sorry to hear that. May the wind be at your back.
me
wrote:
>Looks as if Ray and ray haven't been paying attention. Don Stauffer
>has been a thoughtful, helpful, knowledgeable, and generous
>contributor to this and several other groups.
>
>Just because he isn't driven to make inane or deprecatory comments on
>every wrinkle in the newsgroup continuum doesn't mean he's not a
>valued asset.
>
>Back in the day newsgroups were noted for useful discussions,
>considered ideas, and careful fact-sharing. Since then the "look at
>me!" mentality has taken over, and like a four-year-old, constant
>noise and hand-waving has become the norm. Any kind of attention is
>better than no attention. Now _that_ is pathetic.
I'll second all the above. Don has been around from long before the
r.p.d. split and his Brookyln camera dealer pages over the years
should by themselves be enough for all the naysayers to be put to
shame for their comments.
Troy Piggins
At least he didn't add to the off-topic, political crap that is
poisoning the photo groups. I'm with Don.
--
Troy Piggins
Paul Furman
> Frank ess wrote:
>
>> Don Stauffer
>> has been a thoughtful, helpful, knowledgeable, and generous
>> contributor to this and several other groups.
>>
>> Just because he isn't driven to make inane or deprecatory comments on
>> every wrinkle in the newsgroup continuum doesn't mean he's not a
>> valued asset.
>>
>> Back in the day newsgroups were noted for useful discussions,
>> considered ideas, and careful fact-sharing. Since then the "look at
>> me!" mentality has taken over, and like a four-year-old, constant
>> noise and hand-waving has become the norm. Any kind of attention is
>> better than no attention. Now _that_ is pathetic.
>
> I'll second all the above. Don has been around from long before the
> r.p.d. split and his Brookyln camera dealer pages over the years
> should by themselves be enough for all the naysayers to be put to
> shame for their comments.
I recognize the name, with positive connotations going back through the
years... um, maybe 5+ years I've been a regular in these groups.
--
Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
www.baynatives.com
all google groups messages filtered due to spam
Mike Russell
Sorry to see you go, Don. You've been a good contributor. Let us know
where you're going to participate - dgrin.com perhaps - and maybe some of
us will follow suit.
Or maybe that's the last thing you want to have happen, LOL.
--
Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com
George Kerby
On 10/6/09 1:37 PM, in article 4acb8e53$0$1625$742e...@news.sonic.net, "Ray
Fischer" <rfis...@sonic.net> wrote:
And you think YOU do?!?
Give me a fuckin' break, you obnoxious asshole!
You are the VERY reason guys like Stauffer don't post anymore.
Tell us: Just where does your bleating about how "rightards - Bad"
contribute to the discussion of photography, specifically digital
photography? All you do is stay off-topic with your political moonbat posts
and kindergarten rants.
FOAD, asshole...
Giftzwerg
stau...@usfamily.net says...
Bye.
So long.
See ya.
Gawrsh. I can't <sarcasm> even imagine how my online experience will be
diminished by the non-participation of some fucking ignorant shitball I
never heard of or even noticed </sarcasm>.
Yeah. Whew. Dammit.
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
<g>
--
Giftzwerg
***
"You would think we'd busted [Roman Polanski] for unpaid parking
tickets. The guy *drugged a thirteen year old girl in order to rape
her*. Perhaps the French have some sophisticated, European point of view
on these things that I, with my puritan ancestry, simply cannot rise
to."
- Meghan McArdle
Frank ess
Giftzwerg wrote:
> In article <4acb5f45$0$1328$815e...@news.qwest.net>,
> stau...@usfamily.net says...
>
>> I have been a member of this group for a number of years. But it
>> has turned into primarily a political discussion group, with only
>> occasional posts about digital photography. So long folks- FILE-
>> SUBSCRIBE, uncheck box.
>
> Bye.
>
> So long.
>
> See ya.
>
> Gawrsh. I can't <sarcasm> even imagine how my online experience
> will be diminished by the non-participation of some fucking
> ignorant shitball I never heard of or even noticed </sarcasm>.
>
> Yeah. Whew. Dammit.
>
> Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
>
> <g>
" ... the 'look at me!' mentality has taken over, and like a
four-year-old, constant noise and hand-waving has become the norm. Any
kind of attention is better than no attention. Now that is pathetic."
QED
--
Frank ess
Ray Fischer
>
>
>
>On 10/6/09 1:37 PM, in article 4acb8e53$0$1625$742e...@news.sonic.net, "Ray
>Fischer" <rfis...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> Don Stauffer <stau...@usfamily.net> wrote:
>>> I have been a member of this group for a number of years. But it has
>>> turned into primarily a political discussion group, with only occasional
>>> posts about digital photography. So long folks- FILE- SUBSCRIBE,
>>> uncheck box.
>>
>> Few things more pathetic that some baby whining that he's taking his
>> toys and leaving. Not that anybody will miss him since it doesn't
>> appear that he contributed anything anyway.
>
>And you think YOU do?!?
>
>Give me a fuckin' break, you obnoxious asshole!
Let us look at example of kerby's contributions.
"arf-arf -- arf (pant) arf-arf (pant) (pant) arf"
kryby in <C6CD2583.33D14%ghost_...@hotmail.com>
--
Ray Fischer
rfis...@sonic.net
Mike Russell
Do you guys understand the point of this thread? It is that people, like
yourself, are making things so unpleasant that some of the good people are
actually leaving.
John McWilliams
I think some of them can grasp that, at least at times. But they don't
care, at least at times. So we get the drivel, the dribble and the dross.
--
john mcwilliams
ray
Well, no offense, but that's what they make filters and killfiles for.
John Navas
wrote in <4acb5f45$0$1328$815e...@news.qwest.net>:
The off-topic noise and discourtesy are big reasons why Usenet is dying.
And why I participate less and less myself.
There are still nuggets from time to time, although less and less often.
So sad.
--
Best regards,
John
Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer,
it makes you a dSLR owner.
"The single most important component of a camera
is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams
GregS
BYE
David Ruether
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:01:39 -0500, Don Stauffer wrote:
> I have been a member of this group for a number of years. But it has
> turned into primarily a political discussion group, with only occasional
> posts about digital photography. So long folks- FILE- SUBSCRIBE,
> uncheck box.
I, too, am sorry to see you go. I would have preferred to see you just
block header titles in your reader or not open threads that you were
not interested in, though...
--DR
Mike Russell
I guess I've been around a while, LOL. The existence of kill files does
not excuse poor behavior.
Troy Piggins
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:35:33 -0700, Mike Russell wrote:
>
>>> kryby in <C6CD2583.33D14%ghost_...@hotmail.com>
>>
>> Do you guys understand the point of this thread? It is that people,
>> like yourself, are making things so unpleasant that some of the good
>> people are actually leaving.
>
> Well, no offense, but that's what they make filters and killfiles for.
Well, no offense, but that's what they have politics-specific
newsgroups for as opposed to posting off-topic in
photography-specific newsgroups.
--
Troy Piggins
ray
I understand that. A lot of folks figure it's cool to post whatever they
damned well please as long as they put 'OT' in the subject line. I don't
necessarily concur. Having quite a row with some folks in diabetes groups
doing the same thing. Asking for computer advice and meantime chastising
another poster who complained because he got a diabetes question answered
faster in a paintball group - talk about a double standard.
SkinnerOne
If you detest the political discussions why do you read them then?
-hh
> Don Stauffer wrote:
>
> Sorry to see you go, Don. You've been a good contributor. Let us know
> where you're going to participate - dgrin.com perhaps - and maybe some of
> us will follow suit.
>
> Or maybe that's the last thing you want to have happen, LOL.
Same here, Don. And whatever you do, please don't kill your
invaluable pages on those Brooklyn scammers.
Cheers,
-hh
Robert Coe
: I have been a member of this group for a number of years. But it has
: posts about digital photography. So long folks- FILE- SUBSCRIBE,
: uncheck box.
Don obviously has the right to read, or not read, whatever he pleases. But
that statement is absurd.
Bob
Allen
Allen
John McWilliams
> Why is it absurd?
My take is that this is far less a "political discussion group" than
many on usenet, and if one learns to kf some folk and some threads, it
becomes even less so.
Not replying to, and/or sending cross posts into the ether via followups
helps cut down the garbage.
--
john mcwilliams
Robert Coe
Because it is so conspicuously untrue.
Bob
Allen
Allen
Robert Coe
What I guess I hadn't noticed is your willingness to accept preposterous
exaggeration as truth. Please excuse that observational failure.
Bob
George Kerby
On 10/12/09 1:41 PM, in article
ddydnQd8DpPW5U7X...@giganews.com, "Allen"
<all...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
You are incapable of noticing anything. THAT is amazing!
John Turco
Uh, no -- you're thinking of a different "Don" (Wiss).
--
Cordially,
John Turco <jt...@concentric.net>
Paintings Pain and Pun <http://laughatthepain.blogspot.com>
John Turco
>
> On 10/12/09 1:41 PM, in article
> ddydnQd8DpPW5U7X...@giganews.com, "Allen"
> <all...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
<edited for brevity>
> > You haven't noticed? Amazing.
> > Allen
>
> You are incapable of noticing anything. THAT is amazing!
"So long, folks!" Hey, >I< noticed something: Wasn't Porky Pig
famous for that line?
Savageduck
> George Kerby wrote:
>>
>> On 10/12/09 1:41 PM, in article
>> ddydnQd8DpPW5U7X...@giganews.com, "Allen"
>> <all...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> <edited for brevity>
>
>>> You haven't noticed? Amazing.
>>> Allen
>>
>> You are incapable of noticing anything. THAT is amazing!
>
>
> "So long, folks!" Hey, >I< noticed something: Wasn't Porky Pig
> famous for that line?
"Tha, tha, that's all folks! " was Porky's line.
--
Regards,
Savageduck
Twibil
wrote:
>
>
> > "So long, folks!" Hey, >I< noticed something: Wasn't Porky Pig
> > famous for that line?
>
> "Tha, tha, that's all folks! " was Porky's line.
Still is.
John Turco
Yeah, I recalled this fact, not long after sending my prior
reply.
Incidentally, is there any truth to the rumor that Daffy
Duck is your illegitimate cousin? (You don't lisp, do you?)
Филимон Лаковид
has been a thoughtful, helpful, knowledgeable, and generous
contributor to this and several other groups.
Just because he isn't driven to make inane or deprecatory comments on
every wrinkle in the newsgroup continuum doesn't mean he's not a
valued asset.
Back in the day newsgroups were noted for useful discussions,
considered ideas, and careful fact-sharing. Since then the "look at
me!" mentality has taken over, and like a four-year-old, constant
noise and hand-waving has become the norm. Any kind of attention is
better than no attention. Now _that_ is pathetic.
"We become just by the practice of just actions,
self-controlled by exercising self-control,
and courageous by performing acts of courage."
Frank ess
Well said.
Wonder who said it.
I don't think it was Philimon Lakovid ...
--
Frank ess
Savageduck
> Savageduck wrote:
>>
>> On 2009-10-30 22:32:27 -0700, John Turco <jt...@concentric.net> said:
>>
>>> George Kerby wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/12/09 1:41 PM, in article
>>>> ddydnQd8DpPW5U7X...@giganews.com, "Allen"
>>>> <all...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> <edited for brevity>
>>>
>>>>> You haven't noticed? Amazing.
>>>>> Allen
>>>>
>>>> You are incapable of noticing anything. THAT is amazing!
>>>
>>>
>>> "So long, folks!" Hey, >I< noticed something: Wasn't Porky
>>> Pig famous for that line?
>>
>> "Tha, tha, that's all folks! " was Porky's line.
>
>
> Yeah, I recalled this fact, not long after sending my prior
> reply.
>
> Incidentally, is there any truth to the rumor that Daffy
> Duck is your illegitimate cousin? (You don't lisp, do you?)
Why, Tha'ths dithpicable!
--
Regards,
Savageduck