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 17:25:20 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:25:22 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ca8131bf0d7fc7608f6499ce89aec2d2"; logging-data="1433796"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX188zsaodwirW71Vfq30ptJ5t16fnwCVnls=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:was1r0IfYwP+XEfLXpPSWRp1oZs= Bytes: 4495 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. > 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.