Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:06:33 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:06:33 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a1dca0f6cfcb209f610255b8ebeab74"; logging-data="1446512"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/1jH3dv9Qird280RWBOB4fEmKe17zRFd4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:b1feFB7jFth0SWYcoUlhQNvHFe0= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 4710 super70s wrote: >On 2024-03-25 19:29:46 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: >>super70s wrote: >>>On 2024-03-25 16:18:35 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: >>>>super70s wrote: >>>>>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"? >>>>I said "crosspost" and its derivative words 17 times throughout the >>>>article. How did you manage to miss it? >>>No I didn't "miss it" at all. >>So you posted an irrelevancy in followup just to be your usual dickhead >>self. Got it. >Nothing I posted was irrelevant, you arrogant jackass. I raised a continuing objection to crossposted political threads. You wanted to talk about something unrelated to crossposted political threads. >>The rest snipped unread >Well I'm sure not reading any more of your long harangues about the >evils of crossposting since your attitude seems to be incongruous. Oh goody. I feel better already. If there were any danger that you would have shared my concern, I'd have changed my position.