From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   Another reason a newsgroup like talk.politics.misc leaves   
   me more frustrated than fulfilled is there's too much "text   
   messaging" mostly inconveniencing others being passed off   
   as discussion.   
      
   For example, I looked a post in that newsgroup just a   
   little while ago. It was 107 lines of deeply indented   
   exchange, complete with the order of participation (to   
   possibly make sense of the indenting, even though that's   
   pretty much hopeless because people do inline quoting   
   indentation differently...), followed by one line of   
   response:   
      
   > It was on the news live.   
      
   Seriously? You can't trim that 107 lines of textural   
   nightmare down to a quote serving as the context for   
   your one line of response so that a multitude of others   
   don't have to waste their time scrolling and struggling   
   to extract context from a mess?   
      
   It's just more of the same when it comes to the kind of   
   average character of participant: "I'm going to take the   
   easy way out regardless how it inconveniences a multitude   
   of others!"   
      
   There's no way there can be a society worth living in   
   if *that's* the attitude of the majority. The cost (many   
   other being inconvenienced) vastly outweighs the benefit   
   (one lazy ass farting a single sentence beneath an ocean   
   of fecal stench).   
      
   Yes... I know... "Grow up, oldernow! It's USENET!" "You   
   don't *have* to read it!" Blah. Blah.   
      
   Yep. But I also don't have to sit idly by pretending some   
   "system" could save beings like that - especially when it   
   seems they constitute the majority! - from inconveniencing   
   said "system" into a state of uselessness.   
      
   Debating meta concepts like "Democrat", "Republican",   
   "liberal", "conservative" is an utter waste of time for   
   beings that just plain don't know how - or refuse - to   
   act in ways that promote/bolster society.   
      
   It's that simple.   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)