and while I'll check the bulletin board "manually" from time to time, if someone has something important to tell me, use a blog post or tell me directly.
Besides a recent inanity/stupidity/insipidity which I won't go into right here and right now (it probably belongs in the Politics blog anyway), other reasons to consider the Noise-to-Signal ratio in the Bulletin Board just. That. Bit. Too. High-- at the risk of this reader's blood pressure which is not so great anyways – have been .... (In the blogs too, to be fair. Many too many.)
It reminds me of a line from a Terry Pratchett novel (Men at Arms)- everyone has some good in them sir! Yes, I'm prepared for a deep mining expedition... (or in this case, finding the wheat among the chaff.) something like that, will have to find it...
