"silly old people?" calm down karate kid. just learning here. I think
my 68k pic would have been accepted if newsgroups started out on "today's"
technology... that's all I'm saying.. or theorizing.

"miss the fact" - now you are just trying to put me down a bit.

I'm on this newsgroup for help with my aquarium and for general learning
about aquariums. The way people flex their "superiority" around here is
really taking away from the enjoyment. I used to think "Wow these people
are really nice for sharing their time helping strangers". It has now
seemed to turned into a group of people disguising themselves until they can
prance on opportunity to flex at others' expense. And yes I'm also thinking
of several threads but more recently the "How smart are fish?" thread that
has turned into a bunch of aetheist attacking a spiritual few on the board.
I know I haven't been on here long and don't know everyone's
personalities... I know that this happens quite a bit in newsgroups too, but
I don't subscribe to those anymore for that fact.

Can we just get back to enjoying the hobby? We don't need to know how well
rounded each player is here. We don't need to know either if you agree on
religion or you known a lot about a non-reef topic since the 80's.

Don, this was not directed at you... I just chose to use my reply to you to
write something that I wanted several to read.

Can't wait to see how many people dump on me now...

B



"Don Geddis" wrote in message
...
"Bryan" wrote on Sat, 22 Jul 2006:
I'm sure this etiquette came about during the days of dail-up and 80mb
hard
drives. Makes sense though.

You're suggesting the etiquette is outdated, and just a product of silly
old
people who haven't changed with new technology.

You've missed the fact that the volume of data in Usenet newsgroups has
grown
faster than either bandwidth or hard drive space.

The binaries newsgroups place significant strain on even large,
well-connected
servers. There are good reasons to keep most discussion groups text-only.

-- Don
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Don Geddis
http://reef.geddis.org/
Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions, but there a a LOT of
inquisitive
idiots. -- Despair.com