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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads
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super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>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.

I raised a continuing objection to crossposted political threads. You
wanted to talk about something unrelated to crossposted political
threads.

>>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.

Oh goody. I feel better already. If there were any danger that you
would have shared my concern, I'd have changed my position.