Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:06:33 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 88 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 02:06:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9afed40be2bb1724a44f7688a7018160"; logging-data="1498313"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18y+RQaVckrcgPVzGuiAW9RRVYGQFTiArY=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:k1pvo/6ePKC/t6k1QEWEXxwMMhw= Bytes: 5362 On 2024-03-25 23:06:33 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: > 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. I just wondered why you seem to have a bug up your ass about crossposted political threads but have no problem at all about political threads that originate in here. Seems like a reasonable question. >>> 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. No one seems to share your position (or more accurately, your "continuing" obsession).