I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700, yoyomonk wrote:

I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer wade
through the political garbage looking for what little interesting and
educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

What happened?

Impending election year. It always gets worse when the presidential
elections are impending, although it is getting worse.

If you find a forum that's better, let us know. In the mean time,
investigate the use of kill files.

--
www.wescottdesign.com

On 9/9/2011 4:29 PM, wrote:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

Killfiling Gunner Asch, Ed Huntress, and Dave Smithers ("Hawke") will
remove the majority of the "political garbage" while deleting very
little actual metalworking content.

On 9/9/2011 4:29 PM, wrote:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

Just killfile a few ppl and it will be good again.

If you can manage to ignore all crossposted articles, this is a lively
newsgroup.

i

On 2011-09-09, wrote:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

On Sep 9, 1:29*pm, wrote:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

Are you on parole? When did you get released?

your pal

On 2011-09-09, wrote:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

Get a newsreader with good killfile capability and learn to use
it.

I start up on a typical evening with 300-600 unread articles
showing before the killfile does its thing, and wind up with 30-60
articles to actually deal with.

One of the starting points is set up to discard all articles
with more than one or two newsgroups in the "Newsgroups: " header. Then
add specific individual posters to the killfile, and finally add
particular words to the "Subject: " blocking. A good start is the names
of political individuals -- you'll see who to add as time goes on, and
certain words which would not be used in discussing metalwork, but would
in various political rants.

My newsreader ("slrn", which is a unix-based newsreader) has the
ability to set expiration time for various blocking -- so some subjects
can be automatically removed from the filtering when the discussion is
likely to have expired. I typically set 90 to 360 days of expiration
time.

Sure -- new things have to be added from time to time, but
overall it makes it a pretty usable newsgroup.

Good Luck,
DoN.

--
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I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

It is Usenet in general. Many long lived groups are dead now, or in their
last gasps. Filter, generously applying your own parameters.

Steve - Who is actually doing some metalworking.

on Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700 typed in
rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

try
alt.politics.obama,
alt.california,
alt.society.labor-unions
alt.politics

"it couldn't hoit!"

pyotr
--
pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

On 9/9/2011 10:48 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
on Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700 typed in
rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

try
alt.politics.obama,
alt.california,
alt.society.labor-unions
alt.politics

"it couldn't hoit!"

pyotr


This is a .rec newsgroup.

alt.ANYTHING would be a bogus cross post.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700, wrote:

I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

So you are a sucker upper..rather than a question asker?

Bummer!

Gunner

--
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.
It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an
Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense
and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have
such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the
fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of
fools that made him their prince".

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700,
wrote:

I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.
==================
One of the problems is that several posters are cross
posting into the political/activist newsgroups and we are
seeing all of their chatter. If possible remember to prune
the distro list back to AMC and/or RCM when replying.


--
Unka' George

"Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:47:01 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700,
wrote:

I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.
==================
One of the problems is that several posters are cross
posting into the political/activist newsgroups and we are
seeing all of their chatter. If possible remember to prune
the distro list back to AMC and/or RCM when replying.


Actually George..those *******s cross posted into RCM.

Only groups I ever intentionally cross post into is alt.machines.cnc and
misc.survivalism as we have a broad group of people here..who use all 3
groups.

Gunner

--
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.
It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an
Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense
and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have
such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the
fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of
fools that made him their prince".

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:32 -0700, wrote:

I've been off this group for quite a while.Now I find myself sorry to
have rteturned. I do recollect some lively (and short) rants from both
left and right. But this has gotten ridiculous. Can anyone recommend a
newsgroup where metalworking posts are still made? I can no longer
wade through the political garbage looking for what little interesting
and educational stuff is left on a site that was supposed to be about
metalworking.

This group is generally on topic when all the idiots who crosspost
are eliminated.

With the recent Agent filter thread I have managed to eliminate
crossposted garbage and with a few idiots like budgie killfiled the
messages have been reduced from 200+ daily to about 70. Then I
simply skip any post which does not interest me.

Thanks to all who contributed to the Agent thread.

Alan