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John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:
> followups trimmed to: comp.os.linux.misc
> 
> In comp.os.linux.misc 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>> Indeed a contentious US election. It has now
>> invaded even the Linux groups.
>> 
>> Let's hope that things will go more back to
>> normal in a couple of weeks.
> 
> No kidding, but I doubt it will stop.  My kill file was
> emptied out when Google stopped spamming USENET.  I fear
> it will start growing quite a bit now.
> 
> I can only guess is these posts are showing up here and in
> other Linux groups because the toxic posts in the political
> groups caused reasonable people to flee.  So they are
> stuck in an echo chamber.  Being narcissistic, they want
> to be heard, so they are polluting non-political sites.
> 
> Maybe someone with enough time on their hands can create
> a moderated comp.os.linux.misc :)
> 

My kill file is definitely seeing some growth in the past few weeks. I too
hope it dies down following the election..