(Pam) wrote:

After reading all this blahblahblah! Including some of my very own, I
might add, I have decided that google newsgroups isn't for me.

The newsgroup doesn't belong to Google. Usenet predates Google and can be
accessed in a number of ways with various software. I happen to access usenet
groups via AOL and if I want to read the archives, I can go to Google. Some
people use newsgroup reader software, which I know next to nothing about.

You
don't understand the newer generation such as myself, who think
instant gratification isn't fast enough! You stick with rules from 10
years ago, made by people way older than me,

Gee, and here I was, not thinking of your age at all. I read 4 newsgroups, and
started in November. I'd always avoided them cuz I was nervous about the flame
wars I'd heard about and that people can get away with a heckuva lot more on
usenet than on AOL's boards. AOL's TOS is far stricter. But I ventured on and
have been discussing things with folks whose ages range from in their 20s to
probably over 60. The groups are varied in topic, but rarely do folks of any
age have a problem with the rules. If someone breaks the rules and is told,
they either leave or they apologize and move on to more interesting things,
like calling folks doodoo heads cuz they don't like the same comic book.

I will move on to groups
who are more into my groove, not stuck in the 90's, I want answers and
sharing of imformation, not what you think is the way we should post.

Good luck. If you find such a group in usenet, I'll be surprised. Stuck in the
'90s, huh? Maybe you need to grow up a bit. The '90s were only 5 years ago.

Why should anyone have to spend months in the background learning how
to speak in a group? What is wrong with just speaking?

Nothing. I took a week to read first, but it isn't required. However, if
someone explains that what you said was inappropriate, how you respond says a
lot about you to the folks there. Would you go to someone's house, someone you
just met, and start criticizing their taste in furnishings?

I don't have
the hangup with profanity and such as I feel most of you do, we use
the F word, call things as we see them, you use other words to skirt
the real issues, your control freaks, plain and simple.

Heck, so do I. Some groups don't allow it, but Usenet is pretty much anything
goes. Except, of course, ads and spam.

I raise Camels, soak naked in hot springs in front of perfect
strangers, own my own ranch, ride my Harley, and least of all care
what your comments about this last post are!

Well, good for you.

If your ever out west and come across a goodlooking redhead riding a
camel, wave your finger!

Any preference for which one?

I've only been hanging around this group for a few months and haven't posted
all that much, but I can honestly say I won't miss you.

Shelly