What the heck is the deal here? About 75 percent of the posts are about
politics and other off topic stuff. Can we block all of these dorks?
I don't care to hear all of the liberal babbling here. I can get that from
CNN. If you guys want to be politicians then run for office. Otherwise,
spend some constructive time and get your Amateur licence, or turn on a
radio and listen. You might just learn something.
--
Dave
746pro, IC-260a, YB-400pe,
VX5R, GE SR-3, PRO-2053, PRO-95




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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:57:48 -0700, "Pilotbutteradio"
wrote:

What the heck is the deal here? About 75 percent of the posts are about
politics and other off topic stuff. Can we block all of these dorks?
I don't care to hear all of the liberal babbling here. I can get that from
CNN. If you guys want to be politicians then run for office. Otherwise,
spend some constructive time and get your Amateur licence, or turn on a
radio and listen. You might just learn something.

Dave, Unless you're gonna talk radios can you please put OT in your
topic line. Thanks

In article ,
"Pilotbutteradio" wrote:

What the heck is the deal here? About 75 percent of the posts are
about politics and other off topic stuff. Can we block all of these
dorks? I don't care to hear all of the liberal babbling here. I can
get that from CNN. If you guys want to be politicians then run for
office. Otherwise, spend some constructive time and get your Amateur
licence, or turn on a radio and listen. You might just learn
something.

About 85% of it is due to a certain Troll in the newsgroup. I've asked
that as a group we Plonk him so we will see if the signal to noise
improves if people agree to do it. If not well... then business as
usual.

He is a very popular Troll so I'll be pleasantly surprised if people
agree to do it.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Pilotbutteradio" wrote in message
...

[snip]

Can we block all of these dorks?

[snip]

Yes.

Frank Dresser

Dave,

I agree and well phrased. I won't be aggressive and in response I just give
them a polite notice that they are off topic and then "block sender" or
"killfile" so that's the last I read from them.

As a result I am now only getting about 10% of what's posted but it radio
related ... problem fixed.

73s

Mike


"Pilotbutteradio" wrote in message
...
What the heck is the deal here? About 75 percent of the posts are about
politics and other off topic stuff. Can we block all of these dorks?
I don't care to hear all of the liberal babbling here. I can get that
from
CNN. If you guys want to be politicians then run for office. Otherwise,
spend some constructive time and get your Amateur licence, or turn on a
radio and listen. You might just learn something.
--
Dave
746pro, IC-260a, YB-400pe,
VX5R, GE SR-3, PRO-2053, PRO-95




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I won't be aggressive and in response I just give
them a polite notice that they are off topic and then "block sender" or
"killfile" so that's the last I read from them.

I would say that the best thing to do is not give anyone any notice in the
first place. I'm not slamming you, I agree with your sentiment, but
unfortunately OT'ers don't care if they're OT (hell, I admit I've done it
myself, though only once in a great while). If there's someone who's
consistently posting trash, I simply killfile them, no notice, no "I killfiled
you" posting, nothing. Just block them, because if you give them notice first
(polite or not) it just encourages them to get hostile, throw more trash into
the fray, and make things uglier all the way around.
Linus

"GrtPmpkin32" wrote in message
...


[snip]

Just block them, because if you give them notice first
(polite or not) it just encourages them to get hostile, throw more trash
into
the fray, and make things uglier all the way around.
Linus


Yeah, and once some of them know they've hit the killfile nerve, they'll
change their handle and the whole thing has to be done again.

Frank Dresser

In article ,
"Frank Dresser" wrote:

"GrtPmpkin32" wrote in message
...


[snip]

Just block them, because if you give them notice first (polite or
not) it just encourages them to get hostile, throw more trash into
the fray, and make things uglier all the way around. Linus


Yeah, and once some of them know they've hit the killfile nerve,
they'll change their handle and the whole thing has to be done again.

First off in the thread I started to ask the question about kill filling
Bryant the answer appears to be no. I can't solve that problem with my
news reader unless I block everyone that likes to respond to him.

Changing handles by Trolls is no problem. Usually I can key on something
else in their headers so they can change their handle all they want and
I don't see them.

For the hardest cases I'll see the first one, kill the new handle and
re-filter the remaining unread posts. A couple of mouse clicks is all it
takes.

But there is no point in doing this unless others do the same.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
...

First off in the thread I started to ask the question about kill filling
Bryant the answer appears to be no. I can't solve that problem with my
news reader unless I block everyone that likes to respond to him.

Changing handles by Trolls is no problem. Usually I can key on something
else in their headers so they can change their handle all they want and
I don't see them.

For the hardest cases I'll see the first one, kill the new handle and
re-filter the remaining unread posts. A couple of mouse clicks is all it
takes.

But there is no point in doing this unless others do the same.

You're right, handling a killfile is easy. But I think the only point of
doing it is to keep known annoying posters off my computer. I don't expect
it to effect the behavoior of the annoying poster.

Frank Dresser

hmm.

okay, guys! another [OT] here.

you are lucky to use killfile in your news reader ... but, what will
happen to us using google groups as news reader? well, my net provider
blocks everything but http. so, no nntp access. do you guys know any
news reader using http proxy? and better public nntp host which allow
posting too?

sorry for the OT query and please don't include me in killfile!

raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)


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kill file: n.
[Usenet; very common] (alt.: KILL file) Per-user file(s) used by some
Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn(1)) to discard
summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some
particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author,
or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill
file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader
in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the
person or subject in other media. See also plonk.