Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
Ann, emptybill has mentioned the death of his wife which is not uncommon. And in his telling, it did not sound like it left him with *mere disappointment.* From: Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 8:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Anny Oakleaf gets her gun ... Good name, I like it. Wolf Baiter is good too but the Anny (or Annie) is even better as I always liked being called that. I am not really an Annie though, it doesn't seem to suit me because only my niece seems to call me that. I, in the meantime, will continue to address what I feel needs addressing, be it a knife in the neck or your characteristically dry and humourless configurations of words you call posts. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc Why you're so right Anny. Maybe right maybe wrong, but stickin' to my guns. Unmoistened by sentimentality. No sentimentalist me. No sentimentalist you. And it is also my good fortune not to have been made bitter by any spiritual dead ends I have encountered in my life, so far. But perhaps your dry sharpness is the result of something more interesting and uncommon than mere disappointment. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Yep, exaggeration is the essence of your proclamations: I'm also free to ignore the friend who repeatedly beats her dog. I am free to ignore the woman who has fallen in the street and can't get up. I am free to ignore the fact that my house is on fire. I am free to ignore the fact that I am bleeding from a knife wound in my neck. I am free to ignore a baby bird who has just fallen out of a nest. Yep, it's limitless calamity, horror and destruction if you let Barry say whatever, as your examples so effortlessly demonstrate. You must live a very subdued life indeed if you think my examples above are characteristic of limitless calamity, horror and destruction. Baby birds, tripping women and a beaten dog are hardly calamitous as unpleasant as they may be. You need to get out more, oh empty one. I, in the meantime, will continue to address what I feel needs addressing, be it a knife in the neck or your characteristically dry and humourless configurations of words you call posts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: But are you free enough not to need to indulge in exaggerated claims? What claims are you talking about? Are you talking about the fact that I have the freedom to ignore just about anything, including Barry? Is that exaggerated? Or was I saying that to ignore Barry is nearly impossible because he is about as benign as any of those things listed below which, is to say, not very.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
Judy, I guess salyavin meant that he jumped into a thread midstream and then wanted to see it from the beginning. Right before he temporarily left, he mentioned having to scroll back 3 pages to find something. As for my other question...oh I see what you mean. Well with unlimited posting there might be way more short, snappy posts and way less longer post, which aren't by definition, IMHO, therefore more substantive. But that's another topic altogether! From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:29 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Rick or anyone, just a question: is it really possible to clog up the works? Metaphorical, Share. Why would me too posts cause a technical problem but not substantive posts? I know salyavin mentioned having to scroll back too much What do you think he meant by that? (I actually have no idea.) , but other than that inconvenience, does a lot of posts cause a technical problem? thanks __ From: Rick Archer rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 11:00 AM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC Is this just for this week? Is everyone cool with these post totals? Are the posts substantive or are people clogging up the works with a lot of “me too†posts?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
jeez turq, it's just another yucky part of being human, liking to think we might be better than others. Maybe had survival value at one time and thus hardwired into the reptilian brain. And because that aspect is so very tricky, you got the ones who are unconsciously and or secretly proud of their humbleness! My guess is that a real saint doesn't bother about it very much at all. IMLE (in my limited experience) devotion and or gratitude are the best remedies. Enliven another part of the brain, save the psychology. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: You seem to be conveniently overlooking that most reactivity toward you is in response your own reactive/egoic, separation-creating behavior. For example, a very common theme of your posts is to describe something enjoyable in your life with a zinger at the end how TM/FFLers/seekers are bad/wrong. And? If part of my goal were to get TMers or other seekers who consistently present themselves as better than others to *demonstrate* their own attachments, hatreds, and reactivity, and thus point out the difference between their PR and their reality, can you think of a more effective way to do so? WHAT in the post do they focus on? WHAT do they react to? What you focus on, you become. Are you suggesting that they have no *choice* but to react the way they do? That's not much of a commercial for the spiritual path, is it?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
On 08/17/2013 05:28 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Rick or anyone, just a question: is it really possible to clog up the works? I know salyavin mentioned having to scroll back too much, but other than that inconvenience, does a lot of posts cause a technical problem? thanks No, from the POV of Yahoo's servers, FFL is merely one of thousands of groups. For the most part, it's just a database with lots of small plain text entries. They would need to store the rich text (HTML). The email comes to us with both HTML and plain text. The system is probably a horrible hack that Yahoo engineers are afraid to mess with. I just looked at the web site again and there ARE options such as Messages, Topics and Hot Topics at the top. Are people not seeing these for some reason? Explore, children! And I love these messages: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server smtp.att.yahoo.com timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator. Much discussed with fingers pointing elsewhere some blaming Thunderbird. if it is Thunderbird then why do I only get it posting to Yahoo Groups. Must take time to wake up the censor gerbils.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
Enjoy our shared humanity: http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=4061 From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 11:22 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC Now it can be told - People who don't like Barry's posts are always free to ignore them. This type of selective attention is the refuge of anyone who realizes that human life is temporary. When evaluated by that standard, a large number of FFL denizens of must be heavenly immortals. How refreshing to find this out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: I'm referring to Barry being hugely in favor of posting limits that are, at this point, all about Judy. Which is not to say that others are not equally focused on Barry. 206 posts' worth this past week, either replying to something I posted, or mentioning me, just from the four core members of the MGC alone. Overall, subtracting the posts *I* made from the total, I'm mentioned or cited in over a third of all posts. I think one could make a case for focused on. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
noozguru, IMHO censor gerbils are not sleeping, they're off eating potato chips (-: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC On 08/17/2013 05:28 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Rick or anyone, just a question: is it really possible to clog up the works? I know salyavin mentioned having to scroll back too much, but other than that inconvenience, does a lot of posts cause a technical problem? thanks No, from the POV of Yahoo's servers, FFL is merely one of thousands of groups. For the most part, it's just a database with lots of small plain text entries. They would need to store the rich text (HTML). The email comes to us with both HTML and plain text. The system is probably a horrible hack that Yahoo engineers are afraid to mess with. I just looked at the web site again and there ARE options such as Messages, Topics and Hot Topics at the top. Are people not seeing these for some reason? Explore, children! And I love these messages: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server smtp.att.yahoo.com timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator. Much discussed with fingers pointing elsewhere some blaming Thunderbird. if it is Thunderbird then why do I only get it posting to Yahoo Groups. Must take time to wake up the censor gerbils.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
On 08/17/2013 11:27 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/17/2013 05:28 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Rick or anyone, just a question: is it really possible to clog up the works? I know salyavin mentioned having to scroll back too much, but other than that inconvenience, does a lot of posts cause a technical problem? thanks No, from the POV of Yahoo's servers, FFL is merely one of thousands of groups. For the most part, it's just a database with lots of small plain text entries. They would need to store the rich text (HTML). The email comes to us with both HTML and plain text. The system is probably a horrible hack that Yahoo engineers are afraid to mess with. Well, some years back, they did mess with it in a major way: they did away with storing file attachments, including the removal of all previously stored attachments in the archives. People had been using adult Yahoo Groups to trade porn images and video clips, and the attachments must have been taking up huge amounts of drive space on the servers. A while back when I was experimenting with including an image in a post when I downloaded the post and looked at the source the image data was actually there but disassociated with the post so it wouldn't display. IOW, like when we use an email client to embed a picture and that works but Yahoo breaks the association. Aren't nanny states and corporations great? On a similar subject, AOL laid off about half their Patch staff (500 people) yesterday and are supposedly going to shut down a lot of Patch sites across the country. We have one for this town but it is rather lame so if they shut it down it would not be a great loss. Thing is, before a recent upgrade of the Patch software, people were very active on it. When they upgraded the software people's logins got broken and autologins stopped working. I suspect many of the local users couldn't remember their login. In fact I think with the old software I only had to login once and it maintained it from then on. Nowadays I have to login again too frequently. It brings up a certain issue. Small town papers have gone away along with small town radio stations. That's where you could find the news. There is one big corporate run paper in this area and they are piss poor at local reporting. So news blogs and web sites are the replacement. But many are run with this corporate sites like Patches which need to generate enough ad revenue to exist. We have one local blog that is NOT a Patch but part of a Bay Area news service that is quite good about news. The other problem with Patch sites is they are often run by tech semi-illiterates who might have been able to set up, using a static IP, their own server costing next to nothing to run. People throw away old computers that are quite capable of running a small town blog.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
Applause! :-D On 08/16/2013 12:01 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: Final post count for the week will be tonight's post count. Personally, I'm loving this vacation from the idiotic posting limits, and if you reinstate them, you will need to seek out another moderator if you want the limit enforced. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Is this just for this week? Is everyone cool with these post totals? Are the posts substantive or are people clogging up the works with a lot of me too posts? Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 08/10/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 08/17/13 00:00:00 1242 messages as of (UTC) 08/15/13 21:59:00 153 Share Long 146 authfriend 136 doctordumbass 102 obbajeeba 76 RoryGoff 72 Ravi Chivukula 70 Ann 59 turquoiseb 53 nablusoss1008 40 card 40 Bhairitu 39 Michael Jackson 34 salyavin808 31 Alex Stanley 24 seventhray27 24 raunchydog 17 Seraphita 16 emilymae.reyn 15 iranitea 15 Emily Reyn 14 sparaig 8 Mike Dixon 8 John 7 sharelong60 5 Duveyoung 4 curtisdeltablues 4 PaliGap 3 zarzari_786 3 wgm4u 3 merudanda 3 emptybill 3 Rick Archer 2 srijau 2 mjackson74 2 Xenophaneros Anartaxius 2 Susan 1 wleed3 1 nemodomi 1 feste37 1 azgrey 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Dick Mays Posters: 43 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com http://www.worldtimezone.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC
I volunteer. PS that's a little joke making fun of my own deluge. But I think and hope Judy is right about the trend: Sat 34 Sun 30 Mon 48 (?!) Tu 14 W 27 Th 7 Fri 15, including this one From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 2:01 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 16-Aug-13 00:15:06 UTC Final post count for the week will be tonight's post count. Personally, I'm loving this vacation from the idiotic posting limits, and if you reinstate them, you will need to seek out another moderator if you want the limit enforced. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Is this just for this week? Is everyone cool with these post totals? Are the posts substantive or are people clogging up the works with a lot of me too posts? Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 08/10/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 08/17/13 00:00:00 1242 messages as of (UTC) 08/15/13 21:59:00 153 Share Long 146 authfriend 136 doctordumbass 102 obbajeeba 76 RoryGoff 72 Ravi Chivukula 70 Ann 59 turquoiseb 53 nablusoss1008 40 card 40 Bhairitu 39 Michael Jackson 34 salyavin808 31 Alex Stanley 24 seventhray27 24 raunchydog 17 Seraphita 16 emilymae.reyn 15 iranitea 15 Emily Reyn 14 sparaig 8 Mike Dixon 8 John 7 sharelong60 5 Duveyoung 4 curtisdeltablues 4 PaliGap 3 zarzari_786 3 wgm4u 3 merudanda 3 emptybill 3 Rick Archer 2 srijau 2 mjackson74 2 Xenophaneros Anartaxius 2 Susan 1 wleed3 1 nemodomi 1 feste37 1 azgrey 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Dick Mays Posters: 43 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com http://www.worldtimezone.com
