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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious
 arguements going on?
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:39:46 +1100
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On 9/03/2025 5:05 am, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 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.

Good.

> Then I execute one of the commands to junk articles, which also marks
> the article as read

Yeap .... but the impression I got reading your post was that you
thought it was also be "Marked as Read" in EVERYBODY elses Newsreader.

> in any newsgroups it was crossposted into.

I would like my SeaMonkey Suite to have this ability. Netscape Suite 
and/or Mozilla Suite (on which SeaMonkey Suite is based) used to have 
that ability but, for some reason or other, that function was removed in 
SeaMonkey Suite.

> 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.

???
-- 
Daniel70