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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious
 arguements going on?
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:45:20 +1100
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On 9/03/2025 7:40 am, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-03-08 10:36:40 +0000, Daniel70 said:
> 
>> 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 says "junk all articles without reading".

Yes, but that does not stop that message from having been cross-posted 
to other groups .... where OTHER people CAN read it IF THEY WANT TO!!

> Depending on the newsreader app and how those posts are being 'junked', 
> getting rid of them from one newsgroup also gets rid of them from any 
> cross-posted newsgroup as well.

Yeap but not my SeaMonkey Suite ... as I explained elsewhere.

> Similarly, reading a post in one newsgroup will remove it from the 
> unread lists of other cros-posted newsgroups.
> 
> Filters / killfiles will do the same, unless you've set it to be 
> specific to a particular newsgroup.

Yeap!!
-- 
Daniel70