Maybe we need to revisit this topic?

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?

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.




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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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.


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