Re: Looking for job as a Piping Designer / Draftsman

Christopher Wright wrote:

   >>how do I hook onto the messiest Usenet group? I do so enjoy the
>>occasional fix of mayhem.
>
> It varies so widely, since there are upwards of 81000 newsgroups--but
> start with sci.engr. Sci.engr.mech has a bit higher signal to noise
> ratio, but it doesn't have any wackos to compare with John Turmel and
> Archimedes Plutonium. I'll let you get a good feel for those two on
> your own. Neither is actually certifiable, but you can always tell when
> someone's forgotten his meds. Most of their stuff is impossible to
> read, but often some pseudo-intellectual takes it upon himself to score
> points with a turgid critique of a post by AP or Turmel, and the whole
> thing starts sounding like a bunch of hyperactive first graders
> shouting 'beee quii-yut!' at each other. Reading between the lines
> there is actual content, but the level is roughly equivalent to
> bar-room chatter.

I found Chris on one of the sci.engr groups, I forget which due to brain fade and too much time passed. There were a lot of great, knowledgeable and helpful people in various groups in the early-mid 90s before the trolls, spammers and idiots seemed to take over by crapflooding. Good old reliable Arky, I wonder whatever became of him (wasn't he a janitor at Dartmouth or was he really a created usenet personality?).

The sci.energy.hydrogen group with Kasner and Michael was almost always a flamefest. alt.folklore.urban was also interesting, flamish and trolly (but not really science-related).

I submitted a sci.engr.piping RFC which didn't go anywhere and that's part of the reason why pipingdesign.com exists. A lot of the text on the

   main page of my site is copied directly from what I originally wrote for the RFC.

Paul Received on Tue Feb 15 20:55:00 2005