Taken over? Hardly. Just ignore the bots efforts. Although it is a
little discouraging to have to tunnel through hundreds of posts, I
find it a little better than the unknown flailers' ramblings. Tom
Hmmm!........ Now that you mention it these posts do look a little
different than normal. :-)
BS, TP
True, Tom, altho I personally prefer our ramblings (unknown's as
well)- they are a lot more interesting than the bullshit that's
filling the pages at th' mo'-
Brokeneagle.
bump
Unknowns ramblings are preferred??? They're only meant to provoke!
Well, de gustibus non disputandum, I guess.
SO, someone clue me in-- What causes this? Mosleum terrorist? Can't
be--shorely, they know we fly with empty fuel tanks.
At least Jerry and I fight about one aspect driving the sport, no one
likes to acknowledge ~ego's~ and overlooked video geek licensing
issues to work around students & unlicensed skydivers on his & the
BOD's part. These bots have nothing to do with skydiving. I'm glad my
sea stories and opinions make Tom uncomfortable, he took some sailors
stateside shore duty. A sailor who probably had to spent his hitch on
a Minesweeper or stuck on some pacific atoll destroying left over WWII
stuff would probably like to stick a blasting cap up Speck-4 tom's
ass. Pissing the Army slacker off is the least I can do for a unknown
shipmate. Besides I wore the brassard & badge of a MAA most of my
military service besides fulfilling my Bosuns rate being a knuckle
dragger and all like some have accused me of. Toms guilty of
Fraternization with a Officer----a Court Marshall offense way way back
when I was in,,,,,makes my night stick & handcuffs itch if you know
what I mean----I loved taking down malcontents & scrounges who
resisted or restoring order with that fine piece of hardwood heh heh.
0~;->
Nope, some little passive/aggressive computer geek who wouldn't make a
pimple on a terrorists ass because he or she is badly out of shape
from to much junk food & also probably afraid of death. BTW nut, empty
or partially fueled tanks are more dangerous to passengers & crew than
full ones---People targeted on the ground or in buildings that are
hard to get out of are the only ones that need to sweat big fuel
loads, as the 747's get older & evolve through more & more takeoff &
landing cycles the wiring cracks and deteriorates, sensors corrode and
go bad etc etc etc. The NTSB finally concluded thats what probably
knocked the one out of the sky that left New York's JFK years ago---
Remember the one they thought was shot down by a missile off the east
coast? Take a ship, bus or train....I'd hate to loose your
stabilizing perspective you damn Alabama Hillbilly
WOW god forbid anyone harass or blacken a regular posters rep around
here, we all have such sterling reputations & mild manners HAHAHAHAHA.
I do remember post a few days before this began that wreck would be
spronged. they should go do this to somebody who cares....It doesn't
seem to be effecting my google reader at all--- it pulls out the
threads I'm interested in. Say Don, how did you find all this out,
you a geek? ;)
Bots, Nutty- didn't you hear Tom? (grin) Would yew like some splodge
wit' dat?
Broken.
Don
Say, I remember reading that notification, too. Do you remember who
sent it to us? And, how do I adjust my google reader to sift the
garbage threads from ours? Hopefully, this won't last too much longer.
Brokeneagle.
I'm not sure you can "adjust" your reader, as the bot switches nyms
and domains with every post. There is a killfile available for googles
newsreader, but you'd still need to identify your target.
http://www.penney.org/ggkiller.html Tom
It's just a garden variety Hipcrime event on usenet, and this was
rec.skydiving's week (among others--there were a number of groups
besides this one that were hit). I sincerely doubt the Scientologists
have anything
to do with it.
I would avoid taking for granted that Wikipedia always has the facts.
--
Rhonda Lea Kirk
Some are tempted to think of life in cyberspace as insignificant,
as escape or meaningless diversion. It is not. Our experiences there
are serious play. We belittle them at our risk. Sherry Turkle
> >> Actually, it's the Scientology folks, seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporgery
>
> >> Don-
>
> > WOW god forbid anyone harass or blacken a regular posters rep around
> > here, we all have such sterling reputations & mild manners HAHAHAHAHA.
> > I do remember post a few days before this began that wreck would be
> > spronged. they should go do this to somebody who cares....It doesn't
> > seem to be effecting my google reader at all--- it pulls out the
> > threads I'm interested in. Say Don, how did you find all this out,
> > you a geek? ;)
>
> Naw, just a semi-geek - I don't have a pocket protector. I remembered
> the notice that we were going to get hit by a sporge attack, and when it
> hit, I went back to look at the message again, and googled 'sporge'.
>
> Don-
Yeah I remember the threat a few days before hand and the pre
dawn of the computer age with geeks walking around with pocket
protectors and slide rules also, saying they couldn't be put on
working parties.
~Religion is really getting out of hand~ ;-)
Yeah soon after new software & technology comes out it is hacked into
& stolen.
Miss Fanny's 3rd grade class could be the culprit. Who cares as long
as the Google reader pulls up the threads your following....It will
inhibit new threads though. their lost in the clutter.
First, I set up my newsreader to keep threads together, and that makes
this garbage easy to bypass, as most of them are single posts.
Second, here's the original email:
Sporge flooding of rec.skydiving will commence in a few hours.
This will render rec.skydiving useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.
Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!
https://www.supernews.com/signup
--
Let's launch up the socialist midnights, but don't survey the protective
surveyors.
To get back to me by email, change donno to dsluter in my address.
Don
The poster threatened to render rec.skydiving useless. That's like
threatening to make the Pope Catholic.
The noise to signal ratio is about the same as it usually is these days.
If there was a way to filter out posters that haven't made a jump in years -
and likely never will again - there might be hope. As it stands, this
newsgroup has become entirely irrelevant.
What the hell, it was fun while it lasted.
Blue skies,
Winsor
Been there, went to a Ernie Pyle ceremony back in the 1950's. We went
over by small craft from Okinawa
At least for gear sales and obtuse Engineering theory's that have
nothing to do with
LOOK REACH
PULL
Hmmmm, Winsor, that was weird-- sounds like you consider all skydivers
to be something else after so much time he/she has away from the
air... do they change back into whuffos in yer view? Folks get
injured, get older, marry whuffos, get too poor to buy jumps, get
scared, change life priorities, whatever reason they don't jump now,
doesn't matter, they're still skydivers, I believe- and we have always
been irrelevant here; you know that- (grin)
Brokeneagle.
Winsors education is so narrow its within the one level Geek sphere,
he's not able to think at the higher levels required for the
Humanities and Arts. Perhaps your question will help him rise to the
occasion. Or perhaps his Geeky ego will trip him up.
Where are the Fort Campbell graduates from the 1950's? All dead or in
nursing homes? Everything was consolidated at Columbus Ga. to save a
buck I guess.
Used to be, there were two Major jump training centers & about every
Parachute Battalion stationed in Europe had a in house jump
school...My how times change.
My point here is that Jimmy Smith appears to have nothing to do but sit
around and flood the newsgroup with drivel. It has been so long since he
has been in the air that just about none of the things about which he is
concerned matter at all. It's like walking around wearing an "Impeach
Nixon!" buton - it may be an amusing novelty for a few seconds, but it is
fundamentally pointless and out of date.
This newsgroup used to be the one place where one could expect to find the
most current information about people and events in the sport. There was
always the odd thread about something or another that had nothing much to do
with the sport, but you did not have to dig through page after page of
drivel to find something of interest.
Now a perusal of Google shows that the newsgroup is little more than an
outlet for Jimmy Smith in his dotage, and a place for people to reflexively
point out (quite accuratly) that he's full of shit coming and going.
It is a shame that my technical education renders me incapable of
distinguishing a Manet from a Matisse, or telling Beethoven from Chopin, or
reading anything more erudite than a technical manual - but I can certainly
tell that the bulk of what shows up on this newsgroup these days is
nonsense.
Better men than I have been telling Jimmy Smith to STFU for years now, to no
effect. My point about people who don't jump anymore was pretty much
directed at him. The point was not so much that people who do not jump are
irrelevant, just that he is and has been for years.
Even if Jimmy Smith was to stop posting today, the damage is done. This
newsgroup has been the cyber-equivalent of a septic tank long enough that I
doubt if it could ever recover.
I don't check this newsgroup often, since the likelihood that there will be
something of even passing interest borders on zero. What I can't figure out
is why anyone would even bother to stage a sporge attack. Jimmy Smith has
been flooding this newsgroup with drivel more effectively than any bot
could, and he has been doing it for years. He's a one-man denial-of-service
system.
Blue skies,
Winsor
Gidday Winnie :-)
--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
"People sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to do violence to those who would do them harm"
-- George Orwell
Don
Geezers, no need to have a public breakdown because your kill file
failed ya geek.
I suggest UK breaking off and DZ dot com had a lot more to do with
lower traffic volume on wreck than any one person. Perhaps your going
on and on about Fluid dynamics helped more than a little----No one is
without fault. Take a PROZAC and
ask Bill Gates to send a down load fix your limp dick kill file. Have
a nice weekend.
0~;)
I think Winsor is spot on, except for the irretrievability of the
newsgroup. Have a good end-of-life experience. Yeah, this'll help. Tom
So, if you can't create a airtight kill file go over to DZ dot com and
help Winsor moderate the sheep because it seems to be about control
issues with many of you young twerps, you always did go for the gravy
jobs anyway. This place is and always has been for difficult people
with diverse opinions. Wonderful end of life?
Enough income to pay the bills and lead a comfortable life.....All
earned honestly without stabbing sailors in the back and taking their
stateside shore duty. To think we blamed lack of stateside duty on
Navy Waves and civilian PWC workers all those years and all the time
it was Army Speck-4's hiding on Navy bases trying to avoid hardship
duty overseas ;)P
Or most important, making a airtight kill file HAHAHAHA HO HO HAHAHA ;-
*
> Dust to dust and shit is reconstituted as shit little buddy.
> James E. Smith, cookie, deck swaber, , ELT "D" Team leader,
> Armour, Naval Infantryman, Sniper, Throat Slasher, Co Van, Reckon Man,
> Military Parachutist, Brig Chaser, boat driver & union thug. I left
> out USPA Skydiver who was better, knew more than anyone else. I'm sure
> that I left some things out Jimmy, but I'm in a hurry.-
And as usual, you have it fucked up, you left out paint chipper, boat
coxun and that ELT "D" Leader? I was the NCOIC of the team, a Foreign
Officer led it. Cookie?
You consider K.P. cooking? Co Van was about what I was best at.....had
a lot of latitude to maneuver there. The prisoner chaser shit was just
something they put Petty Officers on who were waiting on orders or for
a class to begin. Same way with Court Master at Arms. I'm constantly
surprised at knowing more about the USMC than you knew about the Navy.
Course you were & are a boot non FMF shore duty type Marine with
dreams of glory who ended up guarding Dumpsters.
Throat slasher? I was either on a Sampan or walking the C.P. position
behind RVN troops in Vietnam-----they did all of the killing, perhaps
you don't understand the concept of Force Multiplication? And see here
a active skydiver who is also a Moderator over on DZ dot com & quite
respected in geek circles just had a nervous breakdown on wreck over
non skydiving jive. Then....here you are crawling out of the wood work
with a case of penis envy----Have you no compassion for hysterical
young jumpers who think skydiving is tough and they should get more
respect for sport jumping. More than a few seem badly in need of
lithium, Valium or Prozac because they risk their lives so often in
acts of hedonism so often. Bwaaaaahahahaha 0~;)P
I'm hoping to get a jump or two in before the hurricane makes Texas jumping
too interesting.
Are you getting your knees in the breeze these days?
Blue skies,
Winsor
BTW Chuck, thanks for keeping me active on wreck while Jerry dink
rests and your fellow USPA friends, even those with kill files wither
in agony and piss their panties.
:) funny thing about the human psych. Kill file or not, they know I'm
still out here
punking them out so kill files don't work that well when someone else
owns your emotions huh? 0~;)P
don
Wasn't he at area 51 at one time as well?
Don
Nope but I've been to Mercury Nevada & its forward operating sites,
BTW watch out for Chuck, He's a SF groupie, don't know what his
attraction is to me. I think he just likes sailors 0~;->
Don
Don
Well, I'm finally in agreement on blocks. How do I block this fellow
so all I see is our crap.
I found something that would probably work, however I would have to
download something. I"m not into downloading anything that is not
porn. Anyway to block, or kill file, without downloading something in
google?
Looks like you are in so many kill files, no one but me is around help
you heh heh heh. I'd help you but dunno nothing about them, never had
one. Enjoy the
crying and whining, bitching and moaning to much, reminds me of the
days
when I put technno geeks on working partys. Seems some recruiter
promised them a no sweating envolved job.. ;)P
Now, Peanut, we here know yew of all people can turn anything yew
download into porn, an' why are ye paranoid about downloading
something from Google? Eh?
Brokeneagle.
I e-mailed him what to do without downloading by just using the google
reader to keep up with non sporged threads. Shit they should make me a
Saint. 0~;-)
Yes, that good deed WAS above and beyond, unknown... (grin) Thanks fer
helping our resident savant- I'm sure Peanut is properly grateful, fer
yer ass-iss-tance, too...
Brokeneagle.
Yuh if he's sober enough to comprehend it. This is cool, the sporge
finishes off all the anal cry babies living in the big city's, google
cuts through the sporge right to the marked threads your following. We
southern genteel types can hold civil conversations, while out waiting
the attack. Whats not to like about that? ;->
BWAHAhahahahahaha! Yup. I didn't know you were a southern genteel
type, too- (grin)
0~;->
Yes, you're an angel...(grin)
^^ <------------- <eg>
You know, I don't think our resident savant could follow those
instructions of yours- unless, as you speculated, he has not been
sober enough to try them.... haven't seen the leetle Twig Person since
yew showed him th' way..... (grin) ohhhhh, Peanut.... are ye still
drunk from th' weekend, gone fer a while, or are ye just buried under
the sporge?
It was simple enough....get on to Google newsgroups, go to rec.
skydiving, create a account. Click the star beside any header you want
to follow, it go's to your favorite list, then anytime someone
response to it, part of the post with the senders I.D. will appear on
your "My Goggle" page, click it and you go right to the thread.
Also suggested he go to yahoo, get a account and change his handle and
e-mail address. That will screw up any of the anal fliers filters, You
know they just have to be anal about a raving nut....no telling how
many kill files the kids in tsk tsk. For some reason these sporge
attacks don't clutter the shit out of individual threads----the bots
just bury them with their own preprogrammed threads they've down
loaded from elsewhere, pushing them to the bottom with sheer numbers.
Blue 5 out
G.Rabe's boy says "hey" ;-) Lotta mo where that came from. There
are consequences for your actions. Enjoy. :-D
If, OTOH, you were to conduct yourself as the picture of a class act in any
activities related to his memory, that would be a different story.
You are not going to erase the memories of George Rabe's sleazier actions,
but you might, over time, temper them with the thought that maybe he was not
all bad.
Treating a dead newsgroup as an electronic septic tank in his name is pretty
much guaranteed to lock in the concept of George Rabe=dead scumbag.
Your call.
Blue skies,
Winsor
Give him my condolances....I will continue to keep an eye on the city
boy riff raff and other low down dirty skygod wannabe cocksuckers with
poor breeding that insist on attacking the dead. ~the mean old man~
Chuckles,,, it was a good weekend no?
Just been busy with the farm and old bitch. Faarn bad, bitch good,
I have not had time to implement daddy's instructions. Probably won't
till sunday the way the farm looks right now. gotta knock down a tree
on the south west border for winter,,,Gotta help Nuts get his 1940 MG
out of us ex-old ladies bard.. Sometime, I need to talk to the bitch
in between... I hope to take old mans advice soon,
hey faye,,, YOU SUCK,, ifffin you had voted for me, we would have had
a new leader.
suck my little peanut dick
WINDSOR FOR CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT,, i'm a solder or one.
has anyone asked the question? Is Rabe really really DEAD?
I can't believe I voted for you. Go back to your cockpit and fly the
plane. You are not anything like I thought you were as far as taking
care of rookies and taking care of fun jumpers.
YOU SUCK
hope you are still jumping when I quit.
Can you believe a moderator from another forum would come over here
and freak out like that? I'll bet he's the one that kicked you off DZ
dot com ;->
> hey faye,,, YOU SUCK,, ifffin you had voted for me, we would have had
> a new leader.
Yes I do, Nutty, and John looves it... that's jest a nasty rumor about
Jewish wimmen--
and
if I would have voted fer yew, it would have been because there were
$100 bills raining down on the drop zone out of those storms instead
of the rain... THAT's how much of a chance there would have been of me
voting fer yew, leetle Twiggy...
It was a Very good weekend (grin) Loved seeing you guys- how'd yew
enjoy riding back in the van from that last load?
I can't believe Winsor's the only one to kick him off dot com.... I
think it was a conspiracy against Peanut... (grin)
Maybe they bought a cow in to set on the voting board to give some
appearance of calmness---nut has a history of not being afraid of cows
True-- and look at all the steaks/fresh meat he has surrounded himself
with.... oops, my bad, looks like the steak has surrounded him-- have
you seen him lately? Been puttin' on some padding, there, Peanut, boy,
aren't ye? (grin) Looks like Buddha, grins like Buddha, <snif snif>
Nope, sure don' SMELL like Buddha- woo! Whatchu been drinkin, Nutty?
Better to be down here wishing I was UP there. And, It was OUR
descision the whole time. . Over Cullman,,, then over Hartsell,,,
then when the plane rocked too much, it was also OUR decision to
buckle de puck back up and land in Decatur. LOVEEEE THAT VAN RIDE.
POWER TO THE SKYDIVE,,
fly off your drop zone.
Yeh, an' y'all made a great decision to go up when yew could've looked
at the sky and seen/known it was going to happen... hell, when y'all
took off the storm was already upon us- the hole you went up thru was
the last hole showing- jackass. Pretty good diversion for someone that
lied and told us he was gone to get steaks at the store 30 minutes
before the load took off. I, personally, thought that John calling
'Door!' when y'all pulled up and parked before piling out was a nice
touch, too.
I planned to get them steaks, but the dropzone was on the way out,
and , It was good manners to go by and ask everyone if they needed
anything,
and, they were ready to load just needed a few extra bodiesto fly it,
and i was already packed,,,
and, there was a pretty good load of old guys ready to load, some
guys that have not jumped together in many years,,
and, we saw a hole,
and, we felt lucky.
AND, Quite frankly, I felt WE could get away with it without Lucky
and you Knowing anything. So don't blame Frank & John, I take the
blame for talking them into it. However, them being old guys should
know better when I"m running my mouth.
AND, I thought I had time to get down, and go get steaks without yall
knowing chit.
Ahhhh, now, leetle Twig, you ought to know by now that I trust and
have faith in my Royal Johnson's decisions; I'm sure yew didn't
influence him OR Frank the woman magnet to do or not to do anything
they didn't want to. And if YOU're the reason we didn't know y'all
were on that load, hokay, so I've known you were a liar for a looooong
time, can't help that fact; Lucky and I were just naive to think you
would keep yer word on yer whereabouts...
As fer you thinkin', hell, we ALL know what happens when you do that--
chit.
> > that I left some things out Jimmy, but I'm in a hurry.
>
> Wasn't he at area 51 at one time as well?
> Don- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Nope, must not be any aliens there because working with Alien
Personnel was one of my specialty's and the Gov't never called me
in. ;)P
yer going woman on me, and its NOT going to work. THAT is my story
and I'm sticking to it.
SMILEEEEE,, besides,,, we all landed safely in the next county. Damn
I'm GOOOD, dumbass johnson and the others for folliwng me
Yeppers, could have much worse; could have been freaking hit by
lightning if ye HAD gotten out over the DZ in the storm.....
And I've always been woman. Stick to whatever yew want, BOY.
Hard to tell from a distance now a days------modern males of the
skydiving persuasion have began to act & talk so girly. Take Jerry, I
actually thought
he was a teenage girl for awhile there. 0~;)
Chuckles,,, I've been married twice now. Lightning don't hurt.
Ah- you say that now... do all of us easily-amused folk a favor, Nut-
and don't tempt Mother Nature too much; she's female, could turn
against you with no warning at enny time... (grin) I like to make
friends for a LONG time, not a short one; haven't quite got my fill of
your savant ass yet; so if you go and git yer dadgum self struck by
lightning an' kilt, I'll be damn disappointed in ye--
Mzz. Johnson.
P.S. An' as fer flailer's post, it IS getting harder to tell how girly
a man is by the way he acts or speaks, isn't it?- some of 'em fool you
for a leetle while.... in support of yer statement and as evidence, I
offer, a snip from Peanut's very recent post on the Yearly East Texas
Awards thread:
SOOO, our lies, actually became
reality for him. He copped a male attitude. I copped a female
attitude.
I rest my case, yer honor.
Uh........don't you have to be putting off a opposing charge or
grounded?
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
Number one is a smart ass sometimes.
Thank you, darling- (hug) An' yer a dang smart dumb one. Going to Semo?
Yeah,,, i think I'm going back. Its been a couple of years, and I
miss them folks. Lucky's given me a free weekend to use as I want
to. Its time I carry the colors back. The new airport is minus one
airport manager, and the its located right on the mississippi rier.
Some good views. Gotta couple of old girlfriends still jumping around
there and some good vibes, booze, and recreational stimulants. At my
age it means VIAGRA.
Have fun, be safe, look cool for th' camera--
Brokeneagle.
The weekend of the 30th is Yeti-man's 25th anniversary in the sport;
he's gonna be at th' Farm, I think. He said last weekend they were
jumping a Beech 99 (fun) He wanted to know if we could be there. I
told him to ask John, he's the boss, I'm just the bitch... (grin)
Yall making a joke? I didn't get it! ! ! !
Get off the step before lighting strikes the plane, if you make it to
the ground without the plane following you like in that imagined stall
a few months ago,
stay away from tree's, get in a ditch or lay flat----Lightening may be
stalking you. HAHAHAHAHAHA ;->
i WASN'T lieing about dat chit. Dont run for the door, cause you
can't,, and iffing you can get outside, so the puck what. you're
outside where the outside of the plane can hit you instead of the
inside of the plane hitting you. Its something I thought about. I
would take the same action again.
Didn't think you were, thought it might be a form of the DT's, let me
know if you see big hairy bugs on the cabin wall, till then bend your
knees and put those heels up on your butt to pull away from stalking
planes. ;)
no hairy bugs, a few pink elephanst before loading. It was tea time,
storm was coming.
Yeah I wouldn't advise jumping into a storm front, John Hill and I did
it once over at the old Leauge City DZ. The Otter was bouncing around,
pilot sez.....Anybody wants out, go now or ride it down. Soon as we
got out on the step it started sleeting, let go and the Otter fell
below us, talk about flailing. ;) We were both back stroking in case
she bounced back up. Winds were nil at ground level, uneventful
landing, had a canopy full of sleet and red specks on my face where
sleet had hit me. Darnedest thing I ever saw----gusts raising hell at
altitude and calm on the ground. I usually packed under the tree's or
on the shady side of the hanger but made a point of going into the
hanger to shake out the canopy. Put at least a bucket of ice on the
pack mat....Anals screaming and hollering about ice crystals in the
packing area and their prissy Sabres were going to get wet. A
excellent weekend overall by my standards....I live to piss off up
tight urban sky gods with superior attitudes and small cajones! Ahhhh,
those were the days, to bad I couldn't start younger, I cudda drove
more people crazy! 0~;->
Sleet bites, rain pellets, questionable jumping conditions, packing
under the trees fer a norm', love to piss off th' skygods- yup. You
would have been a Tree Person. Age matters not; attitude says it
all... (grin)
Thats funny, they called us Shit heads in Texas. ;)
Eh, a rose by any other name (grin)
yep <g>
Didn't see a single skygawd at SEMO--Saw "many" young up coming
skydivers being trained properly (from the local college), and one
especial "very nice" from St Louie.
Thank gawd no fireworks ,,, and I MUST add that the blue light
special the locals performed for our pleasure was OUTSTANDING.
A good time was had by all.
THE important thing. I got out without pissing no body off.
trained properly? What did they do, go S/L? ;]