On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:55:40 -0600, Mike Henry wrote:

"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
...

Perhaps you're not noticing that often OT: posts will have OT:
in the subject line. You can set up your newsreader to ignore those
threads. Filtering is much more of a workable approach than trying to
dictate what someone else does or doesn't post.

It was a simple request, not a dictation. And a reasonable one to my view,
especially on original messages that are cross-posted. If the message is
all that important to get out it should be worth the effort of creating
separate messages to each ng that one feels will be benefitted by the
opinion expressed therein.

Well, crossposted messages are rarely on-topic for all groups, and even
more rarely _stay_ on-topic for all groups they're sent to. As such,
they're safely filtered once they pass 3 groups, in my opinion. The
regexp for the filter is simple for that one:
Newsgroups: *,*,*

It's a problem easily solved. Just like OT: in the subject is:
Subject: *OT:*

If your newsreader doesn't support killfiles with regular expressions,
get a better one which does - almost all of them do.

Yeah, like I said. Learn to filter and you'll enjoy Unenet much more.

Sounds like you are saying that all of us that aren't interested in teh
message should be willing to expend the effort to filter whereas Gunner
shouldn't be bothered to stop cross-posting. What makes his time more
valuable than those of us that aren't interested?

Well, you're not interested in one thing, some other guy isn't
interested in some other thing, and so on. Client-side is the logical
place to institute filtering when (a) it varies by client, and (b) it's
not likely to happen at the source. The sources are putting the OT:
tags in the headers to make filtering easy.

This is just like being at a party, and there's a group over in the
corner talking about Fantasy Football. You don't care about Fantasy
Football. Do you go over and demand they talk about something
different, or do you just not hang out in that corner?

He's perfectly right to ignore your request, it's unreasonable. The
problem has already been solved, you just need to use it. Filter posts
with OT: in the subject line, and you'll be fine.

That would make the OT posts of interest unavailable and some of those are
at least interesting. IMHO.

So you want people to post OT as long as it's interesting to you
personally. No filter in the world can do that.