Damn you're stupid.

| Two words... kill file.
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| Telamon
| Ventura, California

Telamon is no stranger to kill files. He's in about 80% of this
group's pariticpants.

"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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[snippage]


I have to weed through hundreds of posts of pure "OFF-TOPIC" nonsense
to find relevelant postings. One time, last month, when I pulled down
new headers I think it was 72 of 102 were political postings by one
specific individual up in Canada. The remaining 30 were mostly
political retorts to the sot in Canada. Maybe one or two shortwave
related postings existed. I should haven't to weed through 100+
postings to find one, maybe two shortwave radio postings. That's just
purely wrong.


You're absolutely right. But it's not going to stop.
The other day I got home from work, ran OE and clicked this group.
The status bar said 145 messages not downloaded. When my
killfile and ignored threads filter got done I had 33 mostly on topic
posts to look through. 77% cleanup rate.

It takes a little effort but it's worth it to me. In fact, if so many people
didn't bother to respond to the off topic posts... well, you get the picture.
Trolls might go away if no one replies to them, but that's not going to
happen either. I'll just keep filtering and clicking the posts that I'm interested
in.

In article ,
(Steve) wrote:

" Radio Flyer" wrote in message
...
There are are plenty of groups specialized to talk on political and
other topics. If you want political, geographical or sexual talk go to
the
related group(s)!
Newsgroups are related on themes. And rrs is related on _receiving_ not
on
_contetnt_ of transmissions. Period.
It's fine to point out what you're actually hearing on shortwave or other
freqs. But if you want to discuss on non receiving related content make a
follow-up to the related group. Thanks.


That is not true. Read the charter and you will see that this is an open
group that is not strict about posting on topic.

I realize that people will post whatever they want to post, but there
are groups dedicated to the discussion of politics and I *wish* that
more of the political stuff would be directed there. In fact, it seems
to me that that would be better for those posting political stuff,
since your posts will then be read by more people who are interested
in discussing politics. It would also help poor SWLers like me, who
want to be able to see the on-topic posts here without having to wade
through tons of off-topic posts. I wouldn't mind if a political post
popped up once in a while, but it doesn't seem like this group is
really about shortwave at all anymore.

Just my two cents!

You are just asking for people to behave reasonably. The normally
adjusted people will and the maladjusted will not. Use the kill file to
delete the latter and you will have close to what you want.

This morning 134 articles killed out of 200 articles. Only had to read a
few normal peoples responses to Trolling idiots and the rest were
relevant to short wave.

The computer is supposed to save you time and effort and by setting up
some rules blocking certain prolific off topic posters you can have it
do the work for you. Then you read what you want because you are in
control and not the mercy of the undesirables. This is not unlike the
tuning knob on the radio.

You don't have to read the Trolling idiots in any news group.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Thank you for your reply, Sanjaya..

That was my approach for the first month or two. I became very
irritated once I figured out that quite of few of these morons were
changing their Identities to get around kill filters. I manage to link
one sot to about 15 identities in one week or two. I've actively
emailed all their ISPs once I deemed their activity merited such
actions. I've had to resort to adding topic filtering too which will
undoubtedly filter out some good postings I'd rather not have
filtered.


73 MJ




On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:10:20 GMT, "Sanjaya"
wrote:


"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
.. .

[snippage]


I have to weed through hundreds of posts of pure "OFF-TOPIC" nonsense
to find relevelant postings. One time, last month, when I pulled down
new headers I think it was 72 of 102 were political postings by one
specific individual up in Canada. The remaining 30 were mostly
political retorts to the sot in Canada. Maybe one or two shortwave
related postings existed. I should haven't to weed through 100+
postings to find one, maybe two shortwave radio postings. That's just
purely wrong.


You're absolutely right. But it's not going to stop.
The other day I got home from work, ran OE and clicked this group.
The status bar said 145 messages not downloaded. When my
killfile and ignored threads filter got done I had 33 mostly on topic
posts to look through. 77% cleanup rate.

It takes a little effort but it's worth it to me. In fact, if so many people
didn't bother to respond to the off topic posts... well, you get the picture.
Trolls might go away if no one replies to them, but that's not going to
happen either. I'll just keep filtering and clicking the posts that I'm interested
in.

complaint of abusisve user sent to

"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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STOP YOUR OFF TOPIC POLITICAL SPAM IN HERE

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STOP YOUR POLITICAL OFF TOPIC SPAM IN HERE

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"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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Damn you're stupid.

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"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
news
STOP YOUR OFF TOPIC POLITICAL SPAM IN HERE

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STOP YOUR POLITICAL OFF TOPIC SPAM IN HERE

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"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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STOP YOUR OFF TOPIC POLITICAL SPAM IN HERE

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STOP YOUR POLITICAL OFF TOPIC SPAM IN HERE

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:34:40 GMT, "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
wrote:

Honorably? By making reference to where I live and the names
of members of my family? By posting one of my email addresses
multiple times to encourage spam? She doesn't understand honor,
and for that reason, I think it's time to encourage Verizon to take
away her posting privileges. "She" is a control freak, and will stop
at nothing to shut people up.

It's time to fight fire with fire. "She" is in way over her head.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous


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"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
...
Don't worry Volker, you're correct on this issue.

Fifteen uneducated, mindless idiots on one side of an issue versus
four or five on the other side doesn't make the idiots correct.

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:17:30 +0100, Volker Tonn
wrote:



-=jd=- schrieb:


Please refer to the previous post of mine with reference to
the newsgroup charter for a clearer understanding that
broadcast content is on topic. Thanks much!

A newsgroup with a special topic is to prefer over any other usegroup it
may be a "special part" of.
With other words: Any topic a special newsgroup exists for, is offtopic
everywhere(!) else. This is how newsgroups _basically_ work. Take it.