I was reading in the bathroom when I ran across an item written by OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org on
Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:09:05 -0600, which said:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:52:53 -0700, Dale wrote:
I wish I had a nickel for every time you've posted to remind us you've
killfiled the Maxons... 
...And if I had a dollar for every time John's refused to answer
questions posed to him, I could retire *twice*.
OM, each Maxson post seems to generate five from you (I figure you
reply once to each Maxson post, and then get into a one or two-post
exchange with others who respond to either the Maxsons or to you).
Killfiling the Maxsons thus reduces the noise level by only 20%, at
most. After what? six or seven years? I'm now placing you in my own
killfile for a couple of weeks just to see what happens.
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Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring."