On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:10:39 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 10:59:48 AM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
On 3/16/2017 9:46 AM, HerHusband wrote:
Hi Art,

This was a really sad morning. I have been reading alt.home.repair and
a few other groups for many years and this morning signaled the end.
There was nothing but garbage.

I can relate. After years of reading usenet groups, all that seems to be
left are political and religious arguments and name calling.

I can't remember the last time there were more than one or two serious
discussions related to home repair in this group.

Several other groups I watch have been in similar decline.

It's sad, usenet was a convenient way to discuss a variety of topics
without having to visit individual web forums. It takes too much time and
hassle to visit and log in to each forum, so I tend not to visit most of
the ones that do interest me.

It was good while it lasted...

Anthony Watson
www.watsondiy.com
www.mountainsoftware.com


Many interesting topics still are discussed here.

"interesting topic" "interesting home repair topic"


At least most
newsgroup readers allow for undesirable type postings/topics/spammers to
be blocked and filtered. You can even block cross-posted threads, too,
and delete all of that stuff before it ever shows up.

--
Maggie

That's OK to a limited extent for existing people who are here.
But it doesn't prevent the death of the newsgroup. When someone
new looks at this and sees 50 totally OT political threads and
only one home repair one, they just move on. AHR is slowly dying
and it's just a few new jerks here that are starting one new

Jerk is such a mild word for them. They are sociopaths. Mentally
unbalanced and immoral at the same time. One has been posting crap
for more than 10 years. They may have a job to pay there bills but
probably no friends, and cerrtainly no one they know will they tell
how they spend their time, making life unpleasant for people who have
never harmed them.

They're sickos and every time they post it's another statement to
others and themselves: I'm sick, I'm screwed up. I'm selfish. I do
nothing constructive, not because I couldn't but because I'm satisfied
being a sicko. I'm an unrepentant sinner, who survives on the hope
there will be no punishment after I die.

They may not be sexual perverts (although they may be that too) but
they are still perverts. And when they die, the world will be a
better place.

OT thread after another. It's their aim to destroy the group.