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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Please stop cross-posting your verbal diarrhea to
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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:31:52 +1000
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On 9/06/2025 9:02 am, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
> On 6/8/2025 15:15, Blueshirt wrote:
> 
>> Every Usenet user has the power to read, or not read, any
>> article they choose. The power is in the hands of the user and
>> everyone's experience here is on them. Nobody else.
> 
> Agreed.  I think on it like this: one goes to the newsstand and buys a 
> copy of The Times (or we can say the online version since The Times has 
> a presence there).

And, if I didn't like 'The Times' presentation, I could always buy 'The 
Wall Street Journal' if I preferred their presentation i.e. CHANGE THE 
FUCKING CHANNEL!!

> It is very rare that one reads every single article 
> in the entire paper...usually reading the article titles, and skipping 
> the articles that do not interest them.  Usenet works the same way, and 
> the user has the ability to exclude posters that they do not care for 
> (unlike the newspaper).
> 
>> If anybody cannot use a newsreader to block people like you, or
>> me even, all they have to do is ask and somebody would surely
>> help them achieve their aims.
> 
> As I've said before, at this point if someone doesn't know how to use 
> killfiles or thread filters...they don't want to know how to use them, 
> and won't take the 30 seconds to learn.
-- 
Daniel70