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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.eecs.uic.edu!not-for-mail From: jscholvi@bert.eecs.uic.edu (John Scholvin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Look, this is depressing! I'm outta here, folks! Date: 19 Jun 1996 08:55:52 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4q90t8$4p@bert.eecs.uic.edu> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <vwenndt4o7.fsf@mina.sr.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bert.eecs.uic.edu In article <vwenndt4o7.fsf@mina.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> wrote: >"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > >> I'm going to stop reading USENET again, I think. It does bad things for >> my blood pressure. Sorry, folks.. > > I'm sorry to hear this, although I do understand, having felt >similarly, numerous times ;-(. One thing that I've found that helps >greatly, is a killfile. Believe me, placing offenders into a killfile >helps my blood pressure enormously .... Absolutely! I wholeheartedly agree. Specifically, I found that killing any article with "[Ll]inux" or "vs." in the subject improved the S/N ratio by about 24 dB. Stay with us, Jordan...there are a lot of us out here who *always* read your posts because there's a lot to learn there. -- John Scholvin i'm the number on your kitchen door jscholvi@eecs.uic.edu i'm the baseball team from baltimore http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~jscholvi/ --buffalo tom