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References: <vb87fn$3h5da$1@dont-email.me> <vbakto$7c2$3@dont-email.me> <8734lyfonr.fsf@fatphil.org> Subject: Re: (Thunderbird won't let me cross-post.) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20240917.162344.83d27197@mixmin.net> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:23:44 +0100 From: D <noreply@mixmin.net> Newsgroups: news.software.readers Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!alphared!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 2001::1/128 Bytes: 2565 Lines: 35 On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:30:32 +0300, Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote: >Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes: >> On 9/3/2024 6:52 PM, HenHanna wrote: >>> >>>� (Thunderbird won't let me cross-post.) >>> really?����� (my TB� lets me Xpost� alot.) >>> TB recently had a� problem of dropped� posts (from earlier this year) >> >> E-S is killing a lot of cross posts as spam. > >If they're killing HenHanna's posts, then they're on the right lines. >S/h/it (unsure of gender or if bot) is a rampant irrelevant crossposter. server administrators probably benefit by discussing possible flaws and potential improvements to their servers, so it makes sense that they would be more amenable to what could be productive discussions with any newsgroup participant, if the result means a better server than before; this "big tent" pattern of sysadmins engaging everyone, including obvious troll farm "regulars", is evident across hundreds of newsgroups, a rather stoic and objective approach to interacting with the public; "rfc" (e.g. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5537) seems like a bible where encouraging cross-posting and discouraging what they call "multi-posting" in their collective view approaching religious doctrine, papal bull (and yes, maybe some of these people are actually religious, the holy roman empire is cosmopolitan after all), is inviolable creed; as such, cross-posting must be protected in spite of its massive abuse by troll farm operatives and geniuses >Phil >-- >We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have >gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can cast >aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization. >-- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber in /The Western Tradition/ (nice sig . . . even though i don't agree with it)