Time for everyone to leave now

I found some groups that are much more suitable than COLA.

alt.destroy.microsoft and alt.microsoft.sucks

I'm sure that there are more just like it so I think that we should all just move over there.

I made a post a couple of days ago (at the bottom of this post) and it's truer now than ever before. I've been indoors most of today (sore from yesterday) and have checked out this newsgroup on the laptop during commercial breaks. There have been several dozen posts made today. I'm not sure that I can name a single one that has anything to do with either Linux or advocating Linux.

Most of you people here are obsessed with Microsoft. It's plain and simple. Looking at the most active threads I see unsubstantiated paranoia about a backdoor in Vista. (If all you guys run Linux why do you even care?), another thread Puzzling over Vista... some thread about "Why I hate Windows" a thread about "Vista Starter Edition Screenshots" which is some crazy debate over an OS that won't even be sold in the US or Europe.

There are a few threads here about Linux but they are basically dead. Why discuss an OS when everyone can spend ALL DAY discussing a company they have no interest in and claim they aren't obsessed with. (wink-wink... nod-nod)

Fortunately for Linux, what happens in COLA stays in COLA. This newsgroup doesn't really have any reflection on Linux itself. (Which is good for Linux IMO.)

Seems that often the primariy interest here is not to advocate Linux, but to degrade Microsoft. There are a few interesting threads going on but looking at the Subject Line of the most recent posts I see:

Vista will Such (Suck) Puzzling over Vista MS to introduce better search engine than Google Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista, Five Things That Will Give You Pause Windows users stamping to open Mail? 6 Versions of Vista - Are they nuts?

This is no longer a Pro-Linux newsgroup. It's become an anti-MS newsgroup. More than 50% of the posts are about MS and how terrible XP-Vista-Win95-DOS is. The remaining posts are split between politics, Macs and then there's the occasional post about Linux.