[Bret L]

Mandatory subject change.

Wow. That might be your most embarrassing post ever. Pointless,
unreadable and totally lacking in substance.

2pid is jealous. He's been vying for the "Least Relevent Poster" award
for years and now Bratzi has snatched it from him.

Note to 2pid: for me to be a "hypocrite" I would have to post more OT
posts than either you or Bratzi.

No, you'd have to post more audio posts. Without someone to whine
about,
you and Marc have nothing.

That's not an effective argument. Here's why: RAO used to be a place
where many people in the audio industry used to hang out. Objectivists
like Arny pushed them away. Once the place was nearly a ghost town,
you and Bratzi decided to spam the group with OT political posts and
finished RAO off.

Once Arny left, a few old-timers showed up and were curious. You and
Bratzi proved that this place was still unworthy. Just stop spamming
the group, and maybe they'll slowly come back.

Horse****. If they want to post they will post. What has killed
r.a.o. is all the forums like Hoffman where the tube rolling ****
eaters and willfully ignorant neurotic fairies and pecker polishers
are protected from a good dose of ridicule because anyone hoisting
their petards gets kicked and banned.

Mind you, I think any "REAL PRO" posting on Usenet, and very
especially on opinion NGs is undermining his own authority. Fighter
pilots don't hang out at small airport bars and Indy car drivers
don't hang out at the local hot rod shop. The elite meet in
exclusive settings. Even on as candyass a forum as some of those
protected ones, you saw some people representing major manufacturers
get run off by guys who weren't rude or ignorant., they just knew more
about the company's product than the pro did and he, quite rightly,
scrammed.

Opinion NGs are where the **** flies and if you can't take it you
leave. That said, those who left weren't bringing much to the table.