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Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope

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On 24/09/16 22:22, Keith Thompson wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>> On 24/09/16 16:52, James R. Kuyper wrote:
>>> On 09/24/2016 10:44 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> And it would be nice if Rick accepted that he is not going to convince
>>>> anyone in c.l.c. to join his cult at the moment, and moved off to more
>>>> fertile grounds for a while.  I'd recommend sci.electronics.design.
>>>
>>> I'm curious - what did s.e.d ever do to deserve Rick?
>>
>> Have you ever looked at s.e.d?
>
> No.
>
>>                                  Theoretically, it is a technical
>> newsgroup about electronics, but electronics threads are a rarity
>> (though they have been making a bit of a comeback recently).  Mostly it
>> is politics, religion, conspiracy theories, and a facebook substitute
>> for retired American electronics engineers.  Sometimes threads can be
>> interesting or entertaining, but I mark most of the threads there as
>> "ignored" (something I have never bothered doing in c.l.c).  If Rick
>> wants to find people who need "moral guidance", then s.e.d. is a better
>> spot than c.l.c. - and conversely, s.e.d. is far happier with off-topic
>> discussions than c.l.c.  But Rick should be prepared for a lot less
>> politeness and tolerance than he gets here!
>
> So it's a newsgroup with enough topical material to make it worth
> reading, but a majority of blatantly off-topic material -- and you
> propose to make it worse by inviting Rick to participate.

The majority of the people who read and post in s.e.d. do so for the 
threads that are, according to its original charter, off-topic.  So a 
religious post in s.e.d. is perfectly acceptable to that group - and 
there are many regulars there who would enjoy the thread.

>
> David, what exactly would it take for you to STOP FEEDING THE TROLL?
>

I was replying to James here - I hope you do not consider him a troll!

You may also notice that my previous posts here have been to Luuk, not 
Rick.  I admit to having been /tempted/ to reply to Rick or join in some 
of the recent threads he has started - as I have said before, I don't 
believe there is anything amiss with the occasional off-topic thread 
(though I don't like the number of such threads that have been started 
recently by Rick).  The reason I have refrained from posting is respect 
for the opinions and wishes of a number of other regulars here, 
including yourself.  I only posted in this thread because I saw someone 
forging posting credentials - something I consider worse than any number 
of religious posts or trolling.

So please, can't you use the threading commands in your newsreader to 
simply hide a clearly off-topic thread like this one?  I realise you 
want to do what you can to hinder c.l.c. from becoming bogged down in 
off-topic threads - but I cannot see how you can do it with posts such 
as these.

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The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 05:42 -0700
  Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-22 14:31 +0000
    Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 08:04 -0700
      Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Luuk <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 17:10 +0200
        Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 08:13 -0700
          Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 17:19 +0200
            Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2016-09-22 17:22 +0200
        Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-23 09:41 +0200
          Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2016-09-23 11:24 -0400
            Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-23 15:56 +0000
          Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2016-09-24 08:51 +0200
            Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 04:49 -0700
              Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 13:14 +0100
              Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-24 15:04 +0000
            Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-24 16:44 +0200
              Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-09-24 10:52 -0400
                Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-24 17:57 +0200
                Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-24 13:22 -0700
                Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-09-24 16:30 -0400
                Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-25 13:05 +0200
                Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-25 13:32 +0100
                Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2016-09-25 23:38 +0800
  Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-09-24 20:27 -0400
    Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2016-09-25 16:49 +0000
      Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 11:15 -0700
        Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-25 20:01 +0000
  Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-09-24 20:29 -0400
    Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 18:49 -0700
      Re: The Love of Jesus Christ is our Only Hope gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-25 02:35 +0000

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