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From: super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:21:11 -0500
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On 2024-03-25 16:18:35 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:

> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> 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.

> BTR1701 may start a political thread but he doesn't crosspost.

I thought you were complaining about the prevalence of political 
threads in r.a.t. What the hell difference does it make whether they're 
crossposted or not.

> If you post a followup in a crossposted political thread without cutting
> the crosspost, I won't read it. Do you understand?

Heavens to Murgatroyd, can we survive?