Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rolf Mantel Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed? Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 15:28:36 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <54h0qjpr6cplhtbpcncn57rarfe06mlape@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:28:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bca3c59fb6acf09473a8f6dfb4e1a0b3"; logging-data="1942668"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+pdAPYX8qF3JR+pp6VtnTr" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y2BbjMkyd17iUoFmIfJjaDbS8/U= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3698 Am 04.02.2025 um 13:59 schrieb Catrike Ryder: > On 4 Feb 2025 12:43:35 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: > >> Catrike Ryder wrote: >>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 20:51:37 -0500, Frank Krygowski >>> 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.