Ted Frater wrote:

spaco wrote:
Why do people post political things on this newsgroup? Is it because
the don't have anything else to say? Don't they know anything about
metalworking, but just feel that they have to type? If so, why don't
they write all that stuff to their congress representatives? What a
waste of time it is for the rest of us.

Do they say such impolite things because they can feel anonymous? Would
they say such things if they were in front of others. Do they count us
other newsgroup members as some sort of inferior beings that can be
mentally beat up at will?

Why do they use foul language? I could see an occasional slip of the
tongue in a heated face to face conversation, but here on the internet,
where you have to type, you have the opportunity to correct yourself
before pushing the "send" button. This must mean the the sender WANTS
to be indentified as someone who has a poor command of the language,
doesn't it? When I was a kid, if they felt that the comic strip
character just HAD to swear, they typed the upper case characters of the
number keys such as "!@#$%^&*". That did the job.

Do we need another newsgroup---- one called "Metalworking after 3 or 4
drinks"?

Pete Stanaitis
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I dont think we need another metalworking group.
But what we do need is,
1. a change in the setup rules for this group,
2. a moderator who checks every posting thats sent, and any that are
outsidethe group charter get deleted before there posted on line.
It works very well on rec. crafts. jewelry, so it can work here.
Ted
A metal worker in Dorset
UK.

Generally speaking, moderated groups are carp. Unless you have three
shifts of full time moderators, the huge posting delays introduced
destroy all utility of the group.

The simple solution is to use a filter to kill cross posted, .cn, google
groups, etc. and use common sense reading the subject lines.

If you aren't interested in political crap, don't read it. Trying to
complain that it somehow destroys the group is nonsense. Bandwidth
hasn't been an issue for years, you can ignore threads that don't
interest you and it takes virtually no time to read past uninteresting
topics.

A news group is like a bunch of people in a room, there are multiple
conversations going and what some folks are discussing on one side of
the room has no relevance to what is being discussed elsewhere in the
room.