On 2014-06-16 7:38 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

>> Set your usenet filters to kill the subject and it won't matter.
>> You're out of it and they are perpetuating the topic with no more
>> input from you.
>
> There is no way to do that. I can only put people or domains in my
> killfile. And no, I am not getting another newsreader. And even if I
> did that, it wouldn't kill anything. They would still keep going on.
> The fact that *I* wouldn't see it is rather meaningless. They went on
> all day about me and I wasn't anywhere near my computer.


Why don't you just admit it Julie? You love the attention. That is your
whole reason for being here. You love being the centre of attention.
That's why you give us all that information about the vortex of
dysfunction that is your family.

On Monday, June 16, 2014 11:41:22 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:11:46 -0700 (PDT),
> wrote:

> > The problem is that the ordinary rfc poster gets sucked in to the JB
> > metadiscussion. Is there an alt.fan.julie-bove ? Perhaps there should be,
> > to accommodate this fascination with Bovian family life.
>
> Julie was the OP.
>

Right, but after the substantive discussion finishes, the metadiscussion
takes over.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:32:15 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

> On Monday, June 16, 2014 11:41:22 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:11:46 -0700 (PDT),
> > wrote:
>
> > > The problem is that the ordinary rfc poster gets sucked in to the JB
> > > metadiscussion. Is there an alt.fan.julie-bove ? Perhaps there should be,
> > > to accommodate this fascination with Bovian family life.
> >
> > Julie was the OP.
> >
>
> Right, but after the substantive discussion finishes, the metadiscussion
> takes over.

Silly me.

--
I take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila

On 6/17/2014 1:40 PM, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:32:15 -0700 (PDT),
> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, June 16, 2014 11:41:22 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:11:46 -0700 (PDT),
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> The problem is that the ordinary rfc poster gets sucked in to the JB
>>>> metadiscussion. Is there an alt.fan.julie-bove ? Perhaps there should be,
>>>> to accommodate this fascination with Bovian family life.
>>>
>>> Julie was the OP.
>>>
>>
>> Right, but after the substantive discussion finishes, the metadiscussion
>> takes over.
>
> Silly me.
>
Jokes, puns and insults usually come before serious discussion is over,
more's the pity!

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

> wrote in message
...
> On Monday, June 16, 2014 11:41:22 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:11:46 -0700 (PDT),
>> wrote:
>
>> > The problem is that the ordinary rfc poster gets sucked in to the JB
>> > metadiscussion. Is there an alt.fan.julie-bove ? Perhaps there should
>> > be,
>> > to accommodate this fascination with Bovian family life.
>>
>> Julie was the OP.
>>
>
> Right, but after the substantive discussion finishes, the metadiscussion
> takes over.

That's not my fault!

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:37:01 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
>>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:38:39 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>>> news >>>> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:30:14 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>>> > > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Please explain to us all here how *I* could possibly have killed the
>>>> >> topic?
>>>> >
>>>> > You aren't using a real news reader with kill filter capability? How
>>>> > do you filter out posters you don't want to see? Kill this thread by
>>>> > subject. Done. You won't see this thread anymore and they can talk
>>>> > among themselves.
>>>>
>>>> I have no way to kill a thread with my newsreader. At least I don't
>>>> think
>>>> so.
>>>
>>> If you have hidden certain posters, then you also have the ability to
>>> hide threads.
>>>> >
>>>> >> I said several times that she had made her choice. But that didn't
>>>> >> stop
>>>> >> them and they veered off into other things. This happens time and
>>>> >> again
>>>> >> to
>>>> >> me. If I ask a question and I get the answer, then to me it is over.
>>>> >> But
>>>> >> they still keep going on. Days to even weeks afterwards.
>>>> >
>>>> > Set your usenet filters to kill the subject and it won't matter.
>>>> > You're out of it and they are perpetuating the topic with no more
>>>> > input from you.
>>>>
>>>> There is no way to do that. I can only put people or domains in my
>>>> killfile. And no, I am not getting another newsreader. And even if I
>>>> did that, it wouldn't kill anything. They would still keep going on.
>>>
>>> It must. The point is that YOU will not see the topic anymore and you
>>> will stop contributing to it, which is something you seem incapable of
>>> doing at this point.
>>>
>>>> The fact that *I* wouldn't see it is rather meaningless.
>>>
>>> Wrong, it means a lot. It puts the blame about perpetual "Julie"
>>> threads squarely on their shoulders, not yours.
>>>
>>>> They went on all day about
>>>> me and I wasn't anywhere near my computer.
>>>
>>> The beauty of not seeing it is that you don't participate and none of
>>> the blame can be assigned to you.
>>
>> lol are you kidding???? The blame is always assigned to her whether she
>> is here or not))
>
>Agree.

I'm shocked by your unexpected opinion.