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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:29:46 -0000 (UTC)
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super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>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.

So you posted an irrelevancy in followup just to be your usual dickhead
self. Got it. The rest snipped unread

>>. . .