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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:36:37 -0500
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 15:28:36 +0100, Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
wrote:

>Am 04.02.2025 um 13:59 schrieb Catrike Ryder:
>> On 4 Feb 2025 12:43:35 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 20:51:37 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>> <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/3/2025 10:12 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/3/2025 8:54 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Youngstown has much more crime than Poland. So does Philadelphia,
>>>>>>> Cleveland, DC, LA, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, etc etc etc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I've ridden in all of them, always unarmed. I've ridden in most
>>>>>>> neighborhoods in Youngstown. The worst crime I ever encountered was to
>>>>>>> have a cyclometer swiped, once in Poland Township, once in Ireland.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After 70+ years of such experiences, am I really supposed to pretend
>>>>>>> "This could be the day I'll have to blow somebody away to save my life"?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No. At some point, repeatedly fearing something that has never
>>>>>>> happened crosses over into phobia.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, small but not zero.
>>>>>> p.s. nice snip.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew, you've certainly been here long enough to understand the ancient
>>>>> Usenet recommendation to trim content except what one's responding to.
>>>>>
>>>>> I notice that practice has faded. We have posts that roll on for screen
>>>>> after screen after screen, six or seven responses deep. But trimming is
>>>>> still a good idea. As always, a person can scroll upward to see what was
>>>>> posted. Usenet doesn't forget.
>>>>
>>>> Snipping works well for people who don't have the backbone to reply to
>>>> all that the original poster said.
>>>
>>> No it is good practice, makes posts more readable, I don’t trim enough
>>> mainly by time it’s some monster thread when no one’s trimmed it’s
>>> difficult to make a start frankly!
>> 
>> I'd argue that it's not a good practice when it's done specifically
>> not to have to reply to, or to take out of context, something in the
>> original post, 
>
>I think this is a strawman.
>
>> which is so often the case with Krygowski's snippage.
>
>Accusation without proof is libel.

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On 1/31/2025 4:42 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:24:14 -0500, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> One persistent problem with trolls and other obnoxious Usenet posters is
>> this: When you ignore them, they think they've somehow won.
>>
>> Sorry to take away your reason for rising in the morning. Now you'll
>> have to find something else to do with your life.
> 
> This is a discussion group, Frank. 

:-)  Hey! After I've posted "this is a discussion group" dozens of 
times, our tricycle rider has finally memorized it!

I've proven my teaching skills by getting even him to learn something!
:-)

> But hey, as long as you sit at the table, the game is still on.

Troll on.


-- 
- Frank Krygowski

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--
C'est bon
Soloman