These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:57:42 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

It's like Flashnewsgroups only a lot worse
http://www.homeownershub.com

Leaching the content we provide our of altruism, and monetizeing it
with their adverts.

I'm nor sure if there is anything that can be done.
If someone wants to set up some kind of bot that will automatically
reply to these posts with a (polite) explanatory message about why
posting that way to Usenet is unwelcome and perhaps even pointing them
to Google Groups instead, I would support such a scheme.

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Graham.

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On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:57:42 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

How should we know?

Cheers, T i m

Graham. wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:57:42 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

It's like Flashnewsgroups only a lot worse
http://www.homeownershub.com

Leaching the content we provide our of altruism, and monetizeing it
with their adverts.

I'm nor sure if there is anything that can be done.
If someone wants to set up some kind of bot that will automatically
reply to these posts with a (polite) explanatory message about why
posting that way to Usenet is unwelcome and perhaps even pointing them
to Google Groups instead, I would support such a scheme.

Not a comprehensive solution, but I filter on FlashNewsgroups.com in the
article headers, and many others could do likewise.

Hopefully the site will prove unpopular and advertising revenue will
shrivel.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

F Murtz wrote:
These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from
some other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be
psychic?

They see a post on a website from 1998 about a lawnmower and reply to it,
the reply lands in this group because they are unable to fathom what a
newsgroup is or comprehend the date, so we end up inundated with one liners
like, 'did you ever sort this out because I'm having the same trouble'

On 17/04/16 14:57, F Murtz wrote:
Are we all supposed to be psychic?
Of course.


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guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Josef Stalin

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:51:05 +0100, Graham. wrote:

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:57:42 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

It's like Flashnewsgroups only a lot worse http://www.homeownershub.com

Leaching the content we provide our of altruism, and monetizeing it with
their adverts.

I'm nor sure if there is anything that can be done.
If someone wants to set up some kind of bot that will automatically
reply to these posts with a (polite) explanatory message about why
posting that way to Usenet is unwelcome and perhaps even pointing them
to Google Groups instead, I would support such a scheme.

Sadly, the only effective solution would be to block the prorogation of
all uk.d-i-y posts to this particular amoral leech.

Which is not only virtually impossible but against the general principles
of Usenet.



--
Windows 8.1 on PCSpecialist box

F Murtz wrote:
Are we all supposed to be psychic?

I knew someone would ask that.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

On 17/04/2016 14:57, F Murtz wrote:

These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

Home owners hub or some such...

Not understanding the "temporary" nature of usenet posts, tends to mean
they reply to old posts without quoting any of it, not realising that
most readers won't have a clue what they are replying to, since the
message vanished from their news server ages ago.

Might be worth the users have a quick read through:

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/...up_access_tips

To get a feel for what they are indirectly posting to.



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Cheers,

John.

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On 17/04/2016 15:51, Graham. wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:57:42 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

It's like Flashnewsgroups only a lot worse
http://www.homeownershub.com

Leaching the content we provide our of altruism, and monetizeing it
with their adverts.

I'm nor sure if there is anything that can be done.
If someone wants to set up some kind of bot that will automatically
reply to these posts with a (polite) explanatory message about why
posting that way to Usenet is unwelcome and perhaps even pointing them
to Google Groups instead, I would support such a scheme.

Is there any evidence that anyone posting via HomeOwnersHub ever reads
any replies?

Are you sure its not just a crossposted thread, where the original was on
another group?
There are issues as well with some servers not propagating some messages so
the first you see is the post.

There is, not just here, but on other groups, several other posters who
nobody bothers to reply to as they are trolls or just using the group as
their own personal chat line of course.

They generally do quote the original messages so you can at least get an
idea of what its about if you want to, but be aware a lot of people do kill
file those who tend to be foul mouthed or wind up merchants.
Brian who wonders why uk.discussion.off-topic does not exist yet.
Brian

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These posts that seemingly follow on from something presumably from some
other post with not a clue about what.Are we all supposed to be psychic?

F Murtz wrote

These posts that seemingly follow on from something
presumably from some other post with not a clue about what.

They are coming from a web site/forum that doesn't allow quoting.

Are we all supposed to be psychic?

Better than psycho I spose.