My issue is so many topics have been beaten to death, yet every time they come up, the posts go on and on and on. And they are topics that we have no control over. "FoxPro is dead" and "someone got banned" are two that come to mind. There is nothing new that can be said on either of these topics.

>While I completely agree about the lack of merit found in many threads, I guess my approach is different in that my process does not involved finding the threads I *don't* want to read but those I actually do want to read ( a far small number )
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>And in the useless threads I still like to scan who posted, since sometimes I'll just read a message (or ignore it ) based on who wrote it rather than the topic. Sort of an assessment on both a poster and thread basis of the signal to noise ratio <s>