Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 03:36:50 GMT From: milt brewster <milt73nopsamc.net> Subject: Re: Miltoon is a busy boy...Re: Saab Complaint
In article <62ea5cfd.0309231112.48280dd0nopsaming.google.com>, tuckermucknopsamail.com says... > Miltoon, > > You sure get around the newsgroups. What a toon. > > Google search results as follows: > > Searched Groups for milt brewster. Results 11 - 20 of about 4,890. > Search took 0.60 seconds. True story... and it doesn't even include my other accounts, going back a good dozen years or more. I've been around a long time, and I've posted *many* more than the 4800 posts you found. I'm supposed to be embarrassed, because you know how to use Google? > > milt brewster <milt73nopsamc.net> wrote in message news:<MPG.19c2951e57a2b84989db2nopsam.sonic.net>... > > > >snipped all of the crap > > > > milton brewster > ... I've been contributing to Usenet for years. I've even started new Usenet groups, which is something none of you have ever done. I've seen a lot on Usenet. Newsgroups are a great information resource and a wonderful personal hobby. Nothing here has really surprised me. I've seen this petulant group behavior many times on lots of Usenet newsgroups. Frequent posters in "small" newsgroups often don't welcome new posters, or they can't deal with some less-than adulatory question or comment. They 'jump' the poster. They essentially lose, or they just decide that their frequent posting history gives them the right to behave like trolls. ... when abuse doesn't work; they start throwing mud at the new poster -- anything that comes to hand. In your case, you've looked around to find something personal you could say about me, that would be either scandalous or embarrassing -- just because you can't deal with the complaint I made about Saab tires. This is a very childish, but very widespread posting strategy, and it's a bit dismaying when I see it. It is especially dismaying when I see it here, in a group that is supposed to support a very well-designed and usually well-made car that attracts reasonably discriminating and appreciative drivers. **** In the meantime, this group is supposed to be about Saabs: Not me. Saabs that need readily available shop manuals that Saab doesn't make available, except on shamelessly expensive CDs. Saabs that need well-made parts from third-party sources. Saab owners that need intelligent online tech advice and informal recommendations regarding dealers, parts, upgrades, driving, and auto care. Saab posters that need links to good web sites, books and other information sources. I like my Saab very much, but I can see why Saab doesn't sell as well as it should, given this group's posting standards, which I would more likely expect to see on a group supporting Fords or Buicks. I'm going back to the Studebaker group, where the guys know what they're talking about and only get mad at important things. They have a FAQ; good well-maintained sites; a great owners' group; they help each other find parts and mechanics and even good cars to restore -- you guys could learn a few things about automobile newsgroups from them. m
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