In article ,
jim rozen wrote:
In article , Mike Henry says...

That works for "Cliff's" posts but doesn't help at all for the (usually)
many responses.

True if killfiling by poster. The cliff-moron deliberately
crossposts the OT crap so that folks in other ngs show up
here on rcm, when their newsreaders don't single-group reply.

And it *is* possible, on a good newsreader, to automatically
killfile postings to selected other newsgroups (e.g. the survivalism
one, where I won't see a cross-posted thread from there until someone
does a followup purely in this newsgroup).

It is also possible, on a good newsreader, to killfile based on
the number of newsgroups to which it is cross-posted, by scoring on the
number of commas in the "Newsgroups: " header line.

Crosspost trolling is actually a violation of most providers'
service agreements.

Agreed.

I'm totally refusing to accept articles from the "alt.net" news
server (it helps to run your own news server), which eliminates a large
number of trolls -- and also happens to eliminate

ignoramussome-number-which-I-forget

since he moved to there. The end result is that I see a thread
originated by him with a lot of holes in it -- one for each time he
posts. It makes it fun to try to follow what he is doing based on only
the quoted text in followups. Since I don't really approve of him
dismantling the nice Best FerrUPS, perhaps this is just as well. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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