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[Blinky the Shark]

Blinky the Shark wrote:

You wouldn't mind (or write a letter to the editor, or switch papers)
if half of the Sports[1] section every day was "society news" and baby
announcements and pictures from the latest weddings? I'll bet you
actually *wouldn't* like that.

Dammit Blinky,
Don't you think its high time all those jocks had a better appreciation of
babies, coming out parties, wedding gowns and tuxedos?
POKO

No.

 

[Owen Holm]

You wouldn't mind (or write a letter to the editor, or switch papers)
if half of the Sports[1] section every day was "society news" and
baby announcements and pictures from the latest weddings? I'll bet
you actually *wouldn't* like that.

It's not weather I would like it, I would skip over those entries and read
what I wanted to.
there might be people that wanted to read that type of thing and I'm not
going to try and say what they can or cannot read.
regards
oldfart.

 

[Owen Holm]

George wrote:
To take your library analogy further. If you went into a
library for a particular book and found that someone had mixed
all the books up, meaning you had to search through every book
in the library to find the one you wanted, would you a: be
happy and b: use that library again?
Just my tuppence

your tuppence isn't cents, and not worth the nit picking, you
should have ignored the off topic post, and you can take your
analogy of any post to what ever fantasy you like and mix it up.
And it would have been nice to have added all of what I said in
my post so it could have been seen what you are nit picking
about, seems like you could be one of those type I mentioned????
regards
I was just showing how a newsgroup is supposed to work and used
your own analogy to explain it. I left out the bits that were not
relevant to my reply as recommended in newsgroup posting guides.
I was not singling out anyone's post as off topic, in fact I never
do and no I don't complain at libraries nor complain about
newspapers' content. Life's too short.
You wouldn't mind (or write a letter to the editor, or switch
papers) if half of the Sports[1] section every day was "society
news" and baby announcements and pictures from the latest weddings?
I'll bet you actually *wouldn't* like that.
[1]Or the Business, section, if that's your interest.

One more time , once again I would skipp those items and carry on and
read what I wanted to, as for the editor I think he would still be in a
job as it costs a lot of money to put those type of entries in (hatches,
matches and despatches) as I have heard them called at times. I don't try
and tell people what they can or cannot read or publish this is a free
country (australia) live and let live and do the right thing (and put it
in the bin)
Regards
oldfart.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

You wouldn't mind (or write a letter to the editor, or switch papers)
if half of the Sports[1] section every day was "society news" and
baby announcements and pictures from the latest weddings? I'll bet
you actually *wouldn't* like that.

It's not weather I would like it, I would skip over those entries and read
what I wanted to.
there might be people that wanted to read that type of thing and I'm not
going to try and say what they can or cannot read.

Does it belong there?

 

[Owen Holm]

Blinky the Shark wrote:
You wouldn't mind (or write a letter to the editor, or switch
papers) if half of the Sports[1] section every day was "society
news" and baby announcements and pictures from the latest weddings?
I'll bet you actually *wouldn't* like that.

It's not weather I would like it, I would skip over those entries and
read what I wanted to.
there might be people that wanted to read that type of thing and I'm
not going to try and say what they can or cannot read.

Does it belong there?

in this case ,Ask the editor!!!!!
regards
oldfart.

 

[Tiger]

news:[email protected]:

Blinky the Shark wrote:
You wouldn't mind (or write a letter to the editor, or switch
papers) if half of the Sports[1] section every day was
"society news" and baby announcements and pictures from the
latest weddings?
I'll bet you actually *wouldn't* like that.

It's not weather I would like it, I would skip over those
entries and read what I wanted to.
there might be people that wanted to read that type of thing and
I'm not going to try and say what they can or cannot read.

Does it belong there?

in this case ,Ask the editor!!!!!

You need an editor to tell you if wedding announcements belong in the
sports section? If that's the case, you shouldn't be trying to read a
newspaper.

--
Tiger

"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe; but
precisely because I cannot do this, I must believe."
- Soren Kierkegaard

 

[Semolina Pilchard]

I agree to disagree. What is your basis for your assertions?

I'd be glad to share experiences and compare, as I have not found any
of the others, especially those you have mentioned, to come close to
the robustness / thoroughness of crawling, nor in quality and speed of
results.

I'm not the only one who agrees, as you may find this article
intersting:

http://www.microdocs-news.info/newsGoogle/2003/05/29.html#a656

To me, and to them, your recommendations appear far inferior.

Your guruness (or is that guruity?) was greatly reduced, TheGuru, by
your inability to snip a post to a reasonable length.