Gotta say -- I enjoy Channel 200 90% of the time, mostly because I squelch the annoyance of the day as soon as I feel annoyed.
What's left is a slowly rolling text buffer with some really funny guys chatting. When somebody's undergoing a "ballistic launch, sometimes its fun (in a hallucinatory way) to read half the conversation -- when it isn't, I just squelch them too. The cost to me is that once or twice a year I get tweaked just enough that I deserve to be squelched; but that isnt 200's fault, its a sign that I have more growing up to do than I like to admit.
Without 200 I would miss out on some growing online friendships, and online ones can turn into real ones with just a little effort. In fact, while the Mustangs were great, without a doubt the best part of the air show was getting to hang out with, and laugh with, guys I've know online for years.