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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious
 arguements going on?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 18:05:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
>On 8/03/2025 6:57 am, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

>>>Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious
>>>arguments going on? I just want to come in here and read about the
>>>good doctor. not all the constant in bickering and asinine shit.
>>>thankz in advance.
>>>ME

>>I subscribe to this newsgroup, then usually junk all articles without
>>reading, to de-yadify the rest of Usenet and because this newsgroup's
>>regulars spend more time troll feeding yads than posting on Doctor Who.
>>This is one of Usenet's worst newsgroups for off-topic crap.

>>Of course, if you truly wanted to read on topic content, you yourself
>>would have to regularly post quite a bit of it yourself and hope on
>>topic threads would result. As you're unwilling to do that yourself,
>>then you contribute to the problem you've identified.

>>Since I personally despise all of this newsgroup's regulars for the
>>nonstop troll feeding of yads (and previously, of Tim), I will continue
>>to subscribe simply as a method of cleaning out the unwanted crossposts
>>from newsgroups I care about.

>How in Hell does your reading garbage HERE stop that same garbage being 
>cross-posted elsewhere??

It's a magical feature of my newsreader. I enter a newsgroup. I am
presented with an index screen of unread articles. The screen is
presented threaded, and I see authors' names. If theres anything to
read, which is almost never, I read it. Then I execute one of the
commands to junk articles, which also marks the article as read in any
newsgroups it was crossposted into.

I can de-yadify without reading an article, plus I get rid of all the
asshole troll feeders who refuse to cut yad's crossposts.

It's faster to mark articles as read that are total off-topic shit in
newsgroups I don't want to read than in groups that I do want to read.

>. . .