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16 of last 20 posts to this news group have advertising content!
While realizing this is a not a group 'controlled' by a chairperson etc. should not someone at the organization hosting it do something to immediately remove advertising? Disappointed. Cheerio. |
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:06:17 -0800 (PST), terry
wrote: 16 of last 20 posts to this news group have advertising content! While realizing this is a not a group 'controlled' by a chairperson etc. should not someone at the organization hosting it do something to immediately remove advertising? There is also no organization hosting it. That's the way Usenet works, other than for a few moderated groups which do have usually a team of people functioning as the chair you refer to. Most of those are political, national, or religious and most of their spam is hate mail, advertising, or evangelism. Usenet is still a better format than mailing lists. AHR is much higher volume than any moderated group I know, and moderation would be far too much work. Also, moderators tend to turn into petty tyrants. Disappointed. Cheerio. Buck up. 30 years ago there was no Usenet at all. |
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![]() "terry" wrote in message ... 16 of last 20 posts to this news group have advertising content! While realizing this is a not a group 'controlled' by a chairperson etc. should not someone at the organization hosting it do something to immediately remove advertising? Disappointed. Cheerio. filters and kill files. Corn Flakes. |
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"terry" wrote in message
... 16 of last 20 posts to this news group have advertising content! While realizing this is a not a group 'controlled' by a chairperson etc. should not someone at the organization hosting it do something to immediately remove advertising? Disappointed. Cheerio. Yeah, it's annoying. Learn not to look at what you don't want to see. And, use a real news reader (software), so you can filter some stuff, and highlight what you want to see. |
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:06:17 -0800 (PST), terry
wrote: 16 of last 20 posts to this news group have advertising content! While realizing this is a not a group 'controlled' by a chairperson etc. should not someone at the organization hosting it do something to immediately remove advertising? Disappointed. Cheerio. Joe and Joe are right. Maybe you don't know what a real newsreader is. It's not a webbrowser. It's a program like Agent, www.forteinc.com which can be used in Free, Paid, or maybe also sponsored mode (with its own ads, but not disguised as posts. Sponsored I see as really a way to see if the extra features of paid are good enough to be worth paying, to try them out, or if one should just stick with free mode. Paid is 29 dollars flat. No need to upgrade ever probably. Unless, ugh, there starts to be a lot of html in newsgroups and I don't think anyone wants that or is even trying to do that. There are other free newsreaders also. Your ISP also has to carry usenet, but many do. If it doesn't you can subscribe directly to a newsgroup server. I don't remember the price or how to do that but you can ask at alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent |
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