Announcement

Tony Cooper wrote:

I am very pleased to announce that nospam and I have come to a binding
agreement that we will no longer argue in this group.

Concessions were made on both sides. nospam agreed to admit that he
has been wrong on most issues over which we have contretemps, but I
have agreed that most of his bogus positions have merely been the
result of his inability to write what he means, and that he had the
right idea but was unable to coherently present his point.

As part of the negotiations, nospam gave me access to his entire body
of photography even though he had to rather sheepishly reveal that he
uses a file-and-folder system of organization. It turns out that he
specializes in light-leak photography and mimicking Holga-like images
in-camera with a modified DSLR. Quite interesting stuff, actually.

I, in turn, provided him with a keyboard map showing the location of
the SHIFT key and instructions on how and when to use it. I also
provided him with some templates of how to provide useful information
and positive input. To show good faith, the templates all described
Apple products favorably and indicated - quite robustly - that Apple
product prices are not that excessive when you compare the specs to
reasonably priced products.

A great triumph for diplomacy, I am sure. Almost makes me wish he
weren't in my kill-file. Almost.

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In article , Davoud wrote:
[ ... ]
A great triumph for diplomacy, I am sure. Almost makes me wish he
weren't in my kill-file. Almost.

Really? I value nospams contributions.

When I see that a thread has three or more nospam
posts, I know he and his playmates have wandered
off into completely irrelevent, stupid, and worthless
areas -- so I delete the thread from my news reader
without reading any of it. It's a pretty accurate
indicator.

It saves me a lot of time since after that filtering,
there really isn't much left to read in the newsgroup.

Davoud:
[ ... ]
A great triumph for diplomacy, I am sure. Almost makes me wish he
weren't in my kill-file. Almost.

map:
Really? I value nospams [sic] contributions.

That's why they made it so that my kill-file does not affect your
Usenet client.

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm