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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 20:06:33 -0500
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On 2024-03-25 23:06:33 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:

> 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.

I just wondered why you seem to have a bug up your ass about 
crossposted political threads but have no problem at all about 
political threads that originate in here. Seems like a reasonable 
question.

>>> 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.

No one seems to share your position (or more accurately, your 
"continuing" obsession).