On Topic- Lets get rid of Cliff Options
Maybe we need to revisit this topic?
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On Topic- Lets get rid of Cliff Options
In article , "Because We Carry the Fire?" wrote:
Maybe we need to revisit this topic? Maybe you need to learn how to use filters and killfiles. Or just learn to ignore posts, or posters, that you don't like. It's a public forum; how do you propose to "get rid of" him? Unless he violates his provider's TOS, there isn't much you can do without making yourself a worse nuisance than he is -- and even then, what if a complaint *does* result in his account being cancelled? How do you propose to prevent him from signing up for another one, using a different email address? |
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Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "Because We Carry the Fire?" wrote: Maybe we need to revisit this topic? Maybe you need to learn how to use filters and killfiles. Or just learn to ignore posts, or posters, that you don't like. It's a public forum; how do you propose to "get rid of" him? Unless he violates his provider's TOS, there isn't much you can do without making yourself a worse nuisance than he is -- and even then, what if a complaint *does* result in his account being cancelled? How do you propose to prevent him from signing up for another one, using a different email address? On the other hand, it is supposed to be a _topical_ public forum. -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/ |
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:14:01 -0500, cavelamb
wrote: Doug Miller wrote: In article , "Because We Carry the Fire?" wrote: Maybe we need to revisit this topic? Maybe you need to learn how to use filters and killfiles. Or just learn to ignore posts, or posters, that you don't like. It's a public forum; how do you propose to "get rid of" him? Unless he violates his provider's TOS, there isn't much you can do without making yourself a worse nuisance than he is -- and even then, what if a complaint *does* result in his account being cancelled? How do you propose to prevent him from signing up for another one, using a different email address? On the other hand, it is supposed to be a _topical_ public forum. No biggy..in about 2 yrs..he will be killed during the Great Cull and after than..no one will have to deal with him anymore. Gunner "First Law of Leftist Debate The more you present a leftist with factual evidence that is counter to his preconceived world view and the more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot, homophobe approaches infinity. This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to the subject." Grey Ghost |
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Because We Carry the Fire? wrote:
Maybe we need to revisit this topic? Since I made a Kill file for him it has been a blessing. Not one mention of him till this "revisit" post. :-) ...lew... |
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Lewis Hartswick wrote:
Because We Carry the Fire? wrote: Maybe we need to revisit this topic? Since I made a Kill file for him it has been a blessing. Not one mention of him till this "revisit" post. :-) ...lew... Ditto. Much nicer now |
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On Mar 31, 10:28*pm, "Because We Carry the Fire?"
wrote: Maybe we need to revisit this topic? And what about the rest of the people (left, right and center) who seldom post on-topic, but always have a political statement to make? They don't bother you? It doesn't raise your ire when someone like Gunner posts hundreds of lines cut & pasted from his favorite winger site without a single word of original thought? Or when he posts a one or two word reply, followed by twenty or so lines of robotic spew? When Gunner is on a road trip, the signal to noise ratio of this group improves significantly. It's maybe a little less comical, but it is way more on topic. It's easy enough to killfile or otherwise filter the posters you don't want to read. |
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rangerssuck wrote:
On Mar 31, 10:28*pm, "Because We Carry the Fire?" wrote: Maybe we need to revisit this topic? And what about the rest of the people (left, right and center) who seldom post on-topic, but always have a political statement to make? They don't bother you? It doesn't raise your ire when someone like Gunner posts hundreds of lines cut & pasted from his favorite winger site without a single word of original thought? Or when he posts a one or two word reply, followed by twenty or so lines of robotic spew? When Gunner is on a road trip, the signal to noise ratio of this group improves significantly. It's maybe a little less comical, but it is way more on topic. It's easy enough to killfile or otherwise filter the posters you don't want to read. I take it you like Cliffs posts? Wes |
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On Apr 1, 5:55*pm, Wes wrote:
rangerssuck wrote: On Mar 31, 10:28 pm, "Because We Carry the Fire?" wrote: Maybe we need to revisit this topic? And what about the rest of the people (left, right and center) who seldom post on-topic, but always have a political statement to make? They don't bother you? It doesn't raise your ire when someone like Gunner posts hundreds of lines cut & pasted from his favorite winger site without a single word of original thought? Or when he posts a one or two word reply, followed by twenty or so lines of robotic spew? When Gunner is on a road trip, the signal to noise ratio of this group improves significantly. It's maybe a little less comical, but it is way more on topic. It's easy enough to killfile or otherwise filter the posters you don't want to read. I take it you like Cliffs posts? Wes Then you take it wrong. |
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On Apr 1, 11:32*am, rangerssuck wrote:
And what about the rest of the people (left, right and center) who seldom post on-topic, but always have a political statement to make? They don't bother you? It doesn't raise your ire when someone like Gunner posts hundreds of lines cut & pasted from his favorite winger site without a single word of original thought? Or when he posts a one or two word reply, followed by twenty or so lines of robotic spew? You have a point. I think that Cliff is the most prolific poster of off topic threads, but certainly not the only one. If we could convince him and about three others to stop, I think the rest might not include RCM in there cross postings. Dan |
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b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Sorry to break it to you, but Thunderbird will NOT take care of cross-posting. We've tried. |
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In article , " wrote:
On Apr 1, 11:32=A0am, rangerssuck wrote: And what about the rest of the people (left, right and center) who seldom post on-topic, but always have a political statement to make? They don't bother you? It doesn't raise your ire when someone like Gunner posts hundreds of lines cut & pasted from his favorite winger site without a single word of original thought? Or when he posts a one or two word reply, followed by twenty or so lines of robotic spew? You have a point. I think that Cliff is the most prolific poster of off topic threads, but certainly not the only one. If we could convince him and about three others to stop, I think the rest might not include RCM in there cross postings. And if you can't convince them to stop? What then? You need to: a) Find a better way to access Usenet than the clumsy, broken interface at GoogleGroups that you're using now. That means: b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Then you can: c) Learn how to use filters and killfiles so that you won't see Cliff's posts, or any of the crossposts. |
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On 4/2/2010 09:19, Louis Ohland wrote:
b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Sorry to break it to you, but Thunderbird will NOT take care of cross-posting. We've tried. Just updated to Thunderbird 3.0.4, no holy joy, you still cannot filter cross-posts. |
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In article , Louis Ohland wrote:
b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Sorry to break it to you, but Thunderbird will NOT take care of cross-posting. We've tried. In combination with NFilter http://www.nfilter.org it certainly will. That's been discussed here before. |
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On 4/2/2010 10:19 AM, Louis Ohland wrote:
b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Sorry to break it to you, but Thunderbird will NOT take care of cross-posting. We've tried. T3 now has a newsgroup--contains filter, allowing the exclusion of the whacko groups. Kevin Gallimore |
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On 2010-04-03, axolotl wrote:
On 4/2/2010 10:19 AM, Louis Ohland wrote: b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Sorry to break it to you, but Thunderbird will NOT take care of cross-posting. We've tried. T3 now has a newsgroup--contains filter, allowing the exclusion of the whacko groups. Can you use wildcards in it? If so, you can match on something like "*,*,*,*" to kill off anything with four or more newsgroups in the list. Almost never do I find something here with that many newsgroups in the cross-posting list to be anything other than trolling or flame wars started by trolls -- so good riddance. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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"DoN. Nichols" wrote: On 2010-04-03, axolotl wrote: On 4/2/2010 10:19 AM, Louis Ohland wrote: b) Downloading a real news client such as Forte, Thunderbird, or Gravity, and getting yourself an account at a free news server such as eternal-september. Sorry to break it to you, but Thunderbird will NOT take care of cross-posting. We've tried. T3 now has a newsgroup--contains filter, allowing the exclusion of the whacko groups. Can you use wildcards in it? If so, you can match on something like "*,*,*,*" to kill off anything with four or more newsgroups in the list. Almost never do I find something here with that many newsgroups in the cross-posting list to be anything other than trolling or flame wars started by trolls -- so good riddance. Supernews used to dop anything from Google groups that was crossposted to more than four groups. -- Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!' |
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