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From: Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 15:28:36 +0100
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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.