Ahem

"Christopher M. Jones" writes:

Hey guys, could you please stop feeding the trolls, it's
growing almost unbearable.

Mr. Jones obviously using the British definition for "almost
unbearable" here.

Joseph Nebus
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I was reading in the bathroom when I ran across an item written by
(Joseph Nebus) on 12 Jul 2003 17:04:28 -0400, which
said:

Mr. Jones obviously using the British definition for "almost
unbearable" here.

Is that like the British definition of "sunshine"? :-)


---------------
Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring."

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:41:40 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote:

Hey guys, could you please stop feeding the trolls, it's
growing almost unbearable.

...Done and done. I've killfiled anything that's being crossposted
from a.d.a, and made sure all the Maxson trash is snug and tucked into
their spiked beds down in Killfile Hell where they belong. The sooner
everyone else does this, the better off we'll all be.

I wish I had a nickel for every time you've posted to remind us you've
killfiled the Maxons...

Dale

Ignoring is bliss.

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:52:53 -0700, Dale wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:41:40 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_resear ch_facility.org wrote:

Hey guys, could you please stop feeding the trolls, it's
growing almost unbearable.

...Done and done. I've killfiled anything that's being crossposted
from a.d.a, and made sure all the Maxson trash is snug and tucked into
their spiked beds down in Killfile Hell where they belong. The sooner
everyone else does this, the better off we'll all be.

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

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

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.


---------------
Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring."

I was reading in the bathroom when I ran across an item written by
John Beaderstadt on Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:09:36
GMT, which said:

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).

Hmm... Let me work the numbers a little bit:

Case 1
1 Maxson post
1 OM reply to Maxson
1 reply to the Maxson post by "Other"
1 OM response to Other, telling him to killfile Maxson

So, killfiling Maxson, alone, cuts the noise by 25%; killfiling OM
cuts it by a further 50%.

Case 2 (OM really does have Maxson killfiled and can't respond
directly)
1 Maxson Post
1 "Other" reply
1 OM response to Other

Killfiling Maxson and OM cuts the noise by ~33%, each.

Case 3 (OM again has Maxson killfiled)
1 Maxson post
2 Other replies
2 OM responses to Other

Here, killfiling Maxson will reduce the noise by 20%, but killfiling
OM, AND OM ALONE, would reduce the noise by 40%.

So, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations, OM is solely responsible
for anywhere between 33% and 50% of all noise generated by a single
Maxson post. What's more, OM's percentage rises considerably for
those of us who already have Maxson filtered. In *this* case, OM's
numbers are ~66%, 50% and 50%, respectively, while Maxson is 0%.

So, what would make the most sense by the numbers?


---------------
Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring."

Giganews hosts/posts Bob Mosley's ongoing abuse for
Illuminati Online.

--
John Thomas Maxson, Retired Engineer (Aerospace)
Author, The Betrayal of Mission 51-L (www.mission51l.com)


OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote in message ...
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:52:53 -0700, Dale wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:41:40 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_resear ch_facility.org wrote:

Hey guys, could you please stop feeding the trolls, it's
growing almost unbearable.

...Done and done. I've killfiled anything that's being crossposted
from a.d.a, and made sure all the Maxson trash is snug and tucked into
their spiked beds down in Killfile Hell where they belong. The sooner
everyone else does this, the better off we'll all be.

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

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr