Re: More questions on VFR flight following.

Attempts to rein in the off-topic posts in UseNet are doomed to failure and in fact only contribute to the static noise. Your options are to drop out, start to killfile (which is only partially effective) or learn how to skip over the threads and/or posters that don't interest you.

I don't think either of us is talking about off-topic posts. Steven is complaining about posts from/to a specific user (MX), while I am chiming in that it's not the poster that is the problem. Rather, it's the guys who obsessively and reflexively respond to MX's posts with abusive, ever-less-original insults that have so polluted the group.

Mine isn't a complaint about off-topic posts at all. Rather, it's a complaint against personal attacks on others in the group. Huge difference.

And as has been noted, how is the commercial promotion of your motel in your sig germane to legitimate aviation topics, other than that you may snag some pilots as guests?

My signature line has remained unchanged since we opened 5+ years ago -- with large heapings of help from folks in this very newsgroup, I might add. In it you will find links to my home page, with photos, videos, and (*gasp*) even my real phone number and email address!

This same sig line goes on ever correspondence I send (well, okay, minus the airplane "N" number), whether it's here, on email or snail mail. If you choose to think of it as promotional, so be it -- I prefer to think of it as "real" -- and this group would be a damn-sight better off if everyone so clearly identified themselves.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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