Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!news.alt.net!us1.netnews.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.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 19:29:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:29:46 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7a3878519db7e9df79d6478859939a1d"; logging-data="1352432"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/tDAJ0M/aiUsyX7bolmH6hI7W5h0Y/46s=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Ncap7lAptf2WSZS1L5jCKu4cE0= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 4117 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. The rest snipped unread >>. . .