Like I said

mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

"Pete C." wrote in news:4d2a45a8$0$8993
:


mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

I was going to say, "What politics?"

Kill files are your friend.

Doug White

On 2011-01-10, Doug White wrote:
"Pete C." wrote in news:4d2a45a8$0$8993
:


mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

I was going to say, "What politics?"

Kill files are your friend.

I am very happy with the way my killfiles work.

On Jan 9, 4:37*pm, mike wrote:
Like I said

If you block a couple of the brain dead conservatives who spam here,
you will eliminate 90% of the political crap.

TMT

You might try a library or, there are numerous strictly metalworking related
forums online.

Chaski - The Home Machinist, and Practical Machinist are two that I can
think of immediately, but there are more.

The Forums aren't newsgroups, but they're very much the same.. without
off-topic crap posts intended to make the particular participants feel like
Legends In Their Own Minds (with the minds part questionable/doubtful).

--
WB
..........


"mike" wrote in message
...
Like I said

There are plenty of gathering spots for metalworkers on the web. All of the
ones I'm familiar with are moderated.

"mike" wrote in message
...
Like I said

mike wrote:

Like I said

After awhile, you learn to recognize who the political trolls are (I've been
guilty of it myself) but it's only a list of about a half-dozen - all you
need is a killfile, sometimes known as a "filter."

Cheers!
Rich

Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jan 9, 4:37*pm, mike wrote:
Like I said

If you block a couple of the brain dead conservatives who spam here,
you will eliminate 90% of the political crap.

And if you block the socialists and Obammunists, that will eliminate the
other 90%. :-

Cheers!
Rich

On Jan 10, 12:23*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jan 9, 4:37 pm, mike wrote:
Like I said

If you block a couple of the brain dead conservatives who spam here,
you will eliminate 90% of the political crap.

And if you block the socialists and Obammunists, that will eliminate the
other 90%. :-

Cheers!
Rich

But you can't deny them the right to suppress all dissent.

On Jan 9, 3:30*pm, "Pete C." wrote:
mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

What filters?

I know many moderated forums, but none is as lively and inviting as
this newsgroup. Here, I feel that I can ask anything and have a good
chances of someone answering me.

Many other forums, are very tightly controlled in ways that I
personally find objectionable. For example, Practical Machinist bans
any mention of CNC Zone.

I post both to PM and CNCZone, but I do not consider their forums to
be quite the home like this newsgroup.

I do not even object to political messages, as such, but I do not like
their quantity.

i

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:00:25 -0600, Ignoramus21107
wrote:
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I do not even object to political messages, as such, but I do not like
their quantity.
snip
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The quality could use some improvement to.


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

On Jan 9, 6:30*pm, "Pete C." wrote:
mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

Actually, I don't use killfiles. As much as I don't like Google, using
it as a usenet reader is actually pretty convenient. Rather than
seeing all the messages, I see a subject list. If I'm not interested
in the subject, I simply don't open it.

The downside of killfiles is that while I don't give a tinker's damn
about Gunner's political spew, he sometimes adds value to actual
metalworking discussions. If I were to kill file him, I wouldn't get
to see the good (or at least not-so-bad) side of him either.

On Jan 10, 12:22*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
mike wrote:
Like I said

After awhile, you learn to recognize who the political trolls are (I've been
guilty of it myself) but it's only a list of about a half-dozen - all you
need is a killfile, sometimes known as a "filter."

Cheers!
Rich

But again, as I said above, do you simply killfile everyone who has a
political opinion? Do you killfile everyone who has a political
opinion different from your own? Do you killfile everyone who joins in
political discussion? If you do, then you're left with probably fewer
than a half-dozen people on this group who talk about nothing other
than metalworking.

A better approach (I think) is to simply ignore subjects or threads in
which you have no interest. I use Google Groups to read usenet. It
works well for this.

Even TMT, Gunner, F. George McD, you and I occasionally have something
on-topic to say. Now, another way to approach this would be to filter
things that are cross-posted to way off-topic groups, like
alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and the like. That alone would probably clear
out 80% of the OT stuff.

Just sayin'

"F. George McDuffee" wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:00:25 -0600, Ignoramus21107
wrote:
snip
I do not even object to political messages, as such, but I do not like
their quantity.
snip
==========
The quality could use some improvement to.


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
..............................
And the civility.

wrote:
On Jan 9, 3:30*pm, "Pete C." wrote:
mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

What filters?

Oh. Googlie.

Get a real newsreader, and find a news server - I use eternal-september.org;
your ISP might even have a news server.

Good Luck!
Rich

rangerssuck wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:22*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
mike wrote:
Like I said

After awhile, you learn to recognize who the political trolls are (I've
been guilty of it myself) but it's only a list of about a half-dozen -
all you need is a killfile, sometimes known as a "filter."

But again, as I said above, do you simply killfile everyone who has a
political opinion?

Nah - I have the best filter of all - a functioning human brain. :-

(of course, the political trolls will pillory me for that!) ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:23*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jan 9, 4:37 pm, mike wrote:
Like I said

If you block a couple of the brain dead conservatives who spam here,
you will eliminate 90% of the political crap.

And if you block the socialists and Obammunists, that will eliminate the
other 90%. :-

But you can't deny them the right to suppress all dissent.

My Dad (R.I.P.) had a little saying - "I may not agree with what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to remain uninformed."

Cheers!
Rich

Doug White wrote:

"Pete C." wrote in news:4d2a45a8$0$8993
:


mike wrote:

Like I said

No.

Learn to use kill files and filters and you'll eliminate 98% of it.

I was going to say, "What politics?"

Kill files are your friend.

Doug White

Damn right and the proper use of marking a thread ignore!

Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

rangerssuck wrote in
rec.crafts.metalworking on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:36:29 -0800 (PST):

The downside of killfiles is that while I don't give a tinker's damn
about Gunner's political spew, he sometimes adds value to actual
metalworking discussions. If I were to kill file him, I wouldn't get
to see the good (or at least not-so-bad) side of him either.

The you make a kill filter that kills his off topic posts, and leaves
his on topic posts alone. Seriously. That's what good filters do.
--

Dan H.
northshore MA.

"dan" wrote in message
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rangerssuck wrote in
rec.crafts.metalworking on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:36:29 -0800 (PST):

The downside of killfiles is that while I don't give a tinker's damn
about Gunner's political spew, he sometimes adds value to actual
metalworking discussions. If I were to kill file him, I wouldn't get
to see the good (or at least not-so-bad) side of him either.

The you make a kill filter that kills his off topic posts, and leaves
his on topic posts alone. Seriously. That's what good filters do.
--

Dan H.
northshore MA.

That's ass-u-ming that the person is capable of doing this extraordinarily
complex procedure .............

Steve