On Monday, November 23, 2020 at 7:31:54 PM UTC-6, cshenk wrote:
> On 11/23/2020 8:13 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2020-11-23 7:45 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> >> On 11/23/2020 7:22 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> >
> >>>> I plan to ban aioe.org. I don't have much else filtered out. Right
> >>>> now, just matching up stuff in TB.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> OK, I get that, since an imposter is posting under your name, but that
> >>> won't stop others from replying.
> >>>
> >>> --Bryan
> >>>
> >>
> >> At least I won't see them anymore and that's good enough. We had a
> >> bunch of people responding to him last week, including I think John
> >> Kuthe.
> >>
> >> Basically I don't want to waste my fime filtering them out and hey,
> >> playing with a new software appeals to me. I still have xananews
> >> running in tandem.
> >
> > Sometimes it gets to the point where you have to filter some users
> > because so many of their posts are just needling people you may already
> > have filtered. I have a few in mine because they are only here to
> > hassle Kuthe. That is how Ofeelme got to be one of the first to go in
> > my filter. I had filtered Peter Lucas because he was exceptionally
> > offensive and profane. Then she would reply to every single post form
> > Lucas, quote the entire post, sometimes more than 100 lines of text, and
> > then add a clueless comment at the end saying that his post was
> > offensive. When I told her I would filter her if she kept doing that I
> > would filter her too. Then she whined that I can't tell who can reply
> > to. She was right. She can post to whoever she wants, but she ended up
> > in the filter with her Lucas.
> Actually Peter Lucas was a real person and quite nice. He had someone
> playing the same game as pud stain. He's long gone now of the stomach
> cancer I am sure.
>
> We exchanged a Christmas box from OZ to Virginia Beach. Just neat local
> stuff we thought the other would like. Amazon wasn't the monster it is
> now so he was curious about file powder for gumbos and Welches grape
> jelly. I've loved Tea Tree oil ever since he sent some and the 3 little
> pins of odd creatures there are still used about once a week on a lapel
> jacket. He in turn had a field day with all the odd little local dry
> rubs that aren't at all like the ones in OZ. Part of the gift was we
> both wrapped everything in local grocery store ads.

I quit buying wrapping paper decades ago, and instead used grocery
store ads.

--Bryan