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The Reál Bev

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:18 pm

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Executive summary by Bev:

There are a number of people here
with no medical credentials at all and a
lot of opinions bordering on religious
belief. The people trying to promote the
Bates Method, "The Plus" lens and pinhole
glasses are examples of this behavior.

Before acting, do some research.
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WELCOME TO THE SCI.MED.VISION NEWSGROUP

The purpose of this newsgroup is to discuss issues related to
eye health and vision care from a scientific viewpoint.
Issues for discussion include (but are not limited to): how
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Hyuuga Neji

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:03 pm

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"Please do not reply to posters in an effort to denounce,ridicule,
embarrass or otherwise engage in non-productive
discussion. That's called "feeding the trolls" and wastes space on
hundreds of thousands of newsserver hard drives and
personal computers around the world. If you are bothered by the tone
or content of a thread, don't read it or learn how
to make the subject or author not appear in the list of topics. This
is called kill-filing or filtering. For more information on how to
set up filters and kill-files, please see the documentation for your
newsreader application or go to: "

Try telling this to Neil and her chums buddies.

Itachi

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:09 pm

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"Please do not reply to posters in an effort to denounce, ridicule,
embarrass or otherwise engage in non-productive discussion. That's
called "feeding the trolls" and wastes space on hundreds of thousands
of newsserver hard drives and personal computers around the world. If
you are bothered by the tone or content of a thread, don't read it or
learn how to make the subject or author not appear in the list of
topics. This is called kill-filing or filtering. For more information
on how to set up filters and kill-files, please see the documentation
for your newsreader application or go to: "

You truly are stupid, Neil Brooks, - same goes for your camp bum-chums
that follow you around.

Itachi

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:15 pm

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As Kazekage kindly pointed out to Neil Brooks a while back -

"Umm, sir, I hope I don't sound disrespectful, but I think he was
referring to the fact that every time Otis says anything you hastily
attack him in whatever way you can. A quick scan through the archives
shows that for the past several years or so you've been doing this,
without failure. Don't get me wrong, sir, I disagree with most of what
Otis has to say, but you know what, we humans came with a certain
useful function. It's called attention. Maybe you could try using this
function more appropriately, by redirecting your attention to more
important things? Neil, I'm don't want to offend you, but anyone with
the slightest intelligence would be able to decide for him/herself
whether Otis is correct in his views or not. It's a free country, Otis
can do what he wants. Frankly, you're just not helping anyone by
attacking him EVERY SINGLE TIME. To put it bluntly, you look quite
silly trying to 'keep Otis at bay'. I don't know whether you've ever
heard of it, but where I come from we like to call it 'feeding the
trolls'. Honestly, Neil, this won't win you anymore respect from your
peers. I could go on a massive long rant, but I really think you're
more than intelligent to figure it out for yourself, sir. I really
respect you, but it quite annoys me when I read through the archives
and find that EVERYwhere Otis goes, you follow along like some sort of
hawk. If I didn't respect you enough as I do, I'd like to say
something along the lines of 'get a life'. "

And to quote TRB -

"Please do not reply to posters in an effort to denounce, ridicule,
embarrass or otherwise engage in non-productive discussion. That's
called "feeding the trolls" and wastes space on hundreds of thousands
of newsserver hard drives and personal computers around the world. If
you are bothered by the tone or content of a thread, don't read it or
learn how to make the subject or author not appear in the list of
topics. This is called kill-filing or filtering. For more information
on how to set up filters and kill-files, please see the documentation
for your newsreader application or go to: "

Ditto.

Neil Brooks

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:10 pm

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You don't run out of aliases, but you ARE running out of time.

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