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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: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:41:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>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.

I just entered the newsgroup without first de-yadifying and junking
crossposts. There were three articles posted by one of our regulars,
and 20 articles in crossposted threads.

Usenet isn't readable without first junking crossposted threads. Gah.

>. . .