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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 17:25:20 -0500
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On 2024-03-25 19:29:46 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:

> 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.

Nothing I posted was irrelevant, you arrogant jackass.

> The rest snipped unread

Well I'm sure not reading any more of your long harangues about the 
evils of crossposting since your attitude seems to be incongruous.