Please read the FAQ

New readers of the group should read the FAQ. This saves the same old
questions being asked time over. It will make you cooler, and you'll get
more girls/guys. Vast riches will be found under your bed, and you'll
live a longer life.*

The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://rssFAQ.org/

* All alleged benefits are conceptual in reality and relative to someone
else. Value of riches may go down as well as up. Written quotation is not
available, requested or not.

- Dave.

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I hate to be a dick about this but I wouldn't expect people to do that nor
do I plan on doing so myself. The RTFM tactic can be applied to nearly all
questions in existence. Someone has already written the book on nearly all
topics. It's not practical nor is it very social to go to the "library" for
all answers. Half the fun is to chat with other boarders.

This is a newsgroup intended for all people to post questions, share ideas,
and yap about whatever as long as it's about snowboarding. Don't stifle
that and turn this into a FAQ pimping board.

Scott


"Switters" wrote in message
...
New readers of the group should read the FAQ. This saves the same old
questions being asked time over. It will make you cooler, and you'll get
more girls/guys. Vast riches will be found under your bed, and you'll
live a longer life.*

The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://rssFAQ.org/

* All alleged benefits are conceptual in reality and relative to someone
else. Value of riches may go down as well as up. Written quotation is not
available, requested or not.

- Dave.

--
The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky.
http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow -
Securing your e-mail

"Scott Lindner" wrote in message ...
I hate to be a dick about this but I wouldn't expect people to do that nor
do I plan on doing so myself.
Well you are being a dick about it. Common netiquette across all
usenet groups is to read the FAQ for the group before posting.

On 19 Sep 2003, Neil Gendzwill wrote:

Well you are being a dick about it. Common netiquette across all
usenet groups is to read the FAQ for the group before posting.

Maybe Dave should include a section on top posting and quote trimming :-)

Naw...guys like that will never read it...

Why bother having a newsgroup if net cops are going to throw the RTFM flag?

Scott


"Steve Dold" wrote in message
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On 19 Sep 2003, Neil Gendzwill wrote:

Maybe Dave should include a section on top posting and quote trimming :-)

Naw...guys like that will never read it...

Scott Lindner wrote:

snipping fluff

Why bother having a newsgroup if net cops are going to throw the RTFM flag?

Do you butt in and talk over people while in the middle of a verbal
conversation with them ? Well top posting and quote trimming is the NG
equivalent of applying these good manners.

Don't agree with it by all means, we're not fascists in here but be sure
and wear your asbestos undies...it'll get warm in here.

PS had you made the effort to lurk awhile or search back on the NG
you'll see Dave 'throws this RTFM Flag' as a polite reminder (nothing
more or less) on a monthly basis....

btw welcome to RSS.

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"A man walks into a cake shop and says 'Is that a macaroon or a meringue?'
The assistant replies 'No, you're right. It's a macaroon.'"
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(Chick Murray...'nuff said.)

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:55:06 GMT, "Scott Lindner"
allegedly wrote:

I hate to be a dick about this but I wouldn't expect people to do that
nor do I plan on doing so myself. The RTFM tactic can be applied to
nearly all questions in existence.

I didn't say anything about "RTFM". I posted the link to the FAQ that
exists for this group, just like there are FAQs for many other groups.
Not everyone likes to post messages and ask questions - the FAQ is for
them also.

Another issue with repeated questions is that people start to not
answer. Then you get questions that yield no response and people think
that the group is a waste of time, or they think it's run by a clique
because the newbie questions aren't good enough for them.

This is a newsgroup intended for all people to post questions, share
ideas, and yap about whatever as long as it's about snowboarding.
Don't stifle that and turn this into a FAQ pimping board.

Lurk a bit longer before you make judgements.

- Dave.

--
The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky.
http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow -
Securing your e-mail

The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://rssFAQ.org/

Another issue with repeated questions is that people start to not
answer. Then you get questions that yield no response and people
think
that the group is a waste of time, or they think it's run by a clique
because the newbie questions aren't good enough for them.

Even I've lost all desire to answer the questions, "is this board too
long for me", "is this board too short for me", and "what length board
should I get". As the FAQ says, you might want a 155 in one model, a
165 in another, and a 185 in a third. (Yes, even a lighter rider
might ride a big long swallowtail in powder or Super G boar in a
competition!) At one point, I was thinking up putting up a website with
progressively more complex answers to the question "what length board
should I get". It would start with "one that comes up to your chin"
and go all the way though my personal opinion which is "total length is
irrelevant, what you really care about is sidecut radius and then
effective edge" and then go into detail about when certain values might
be appropriate. Maybe I should go ahead and do it anyway!

Mike T

"Mike T" wrote..
"is this board too long for me"

No.

"is this board too short for me"

Yes

"what length board should I get".

http://www.bomberonline.com/Forums/A...chment_ID=1002

"what length board should I get".


http://www.bomberonline.com/Forums/A...chment_ID=1002

Ah, yes! Das Amputator, 201 cm.