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Subject: Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads
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On 2024-03-24 17:48:58 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:

> For those of you who remember the good old days, rec.arts.tv was largely
> free of political articles crossposted from other newsgroups till the
> antics of a certain resentful actor who didn't have much of a career in
> regional theater and used to post via his WebTV device started dragging
> them in. Then Ubi the shithead and a few others began dragging in the
> political crosspost threads. Pretty soon, some of those who regularly
> crossposted political articles began adding rec.arts.tv to the crosspost
> as this remained an active newsgroup.
> 
> I've tried various tactics in my own newsreader to avoid crossposted
> threads. I was killfiling based on newsgroups in the crosspost, but I've
> switched to entering newsgroups whose articles I don't want to read
> first to junk them, then reading rec.arts.tv. Junking an article (your
> newsreader may call it something else) marks the article as read in the
> newsgroup being read plus any newsgroup it's crossposted into.
> 
> This is how I de-yadified rec.arts.tv by killfiling in that newsgroup
> and then junking the rest, and then reading rec.arts.tv.
> 
> Several of you are posting followups in these crossposted political
> threads. If you don't cut the crosspost entirely and just leave
> rec.arts.tv as the sole newsgroup on the Newsgroups header, I've
> killfiled your followups.
> 
> Just sayin'.
> 
> If you want me to read your followup, then don't crosspost.
> 
> Because of the political crossposting, rec.arts.tv has a bad reputation
> among the rest of Usenet. There are people who simply refuse to read it
> due to the political crossposting. It's entirely possible that if I
> hadn't already been a regular long before this crap started, I might
> have been unwilling to participate here.
> 
> I hate the crossposters. I think they aren't encouraging conversation
> but ruining every newsgroup they touch. Properly, individual newsgroups
> develop their own personalities and crossposting for that reason has
> always been harmful to our social culture, such as it is.
> 
> In followup, watch for the crosspost, and watch for antics by people
> like Ubi the shithead and others who attempt to redirect your followup
> elsewhere with the use of Followup-To.
> 
> I would encourage you not to crosspost in followup but that's your
> decision, not mine.

BTR1701 originates his "conservative red meat item" in here (and in 
here only) daily, does that count as one of your "political threads"?