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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
To the regular r.p.d. subscribers, and those who lurk.
I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. The action I am moved to take (for myself) is to write several filters, which have cleaned up things in both of my Usenet clients. The following subject lines (threads) and an NG specific filter for some individuals are active, killing them, and cleaning up my view of r.p.d. considerably. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png For now I have just flagged David’s non-BS posts so his legit posts remain, but that is subject to change. The way things have gone, and seem to be going, I have no doubt that I will be modifying this filter group in the near future The Filters: Assholes/and others lured to r.p.d. by David B. (there are currently 9 individuals and several variations of their ID where they have changed in their short history in r.p.d.) The Threads filtered: ISBN 1-874416-68-0 ISBN 1-874416-68-0 Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents Torrents Copyright Infringing Pirate? (was - Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0)) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! Watermarks Watermarks Can anyone reading here explain this apparent anomaly to me, please? About me! Where I keep my spare cats. Screenshot! (was - Where I keep my spare cats) Win10 slow shut down What's the problem? Beauregard T. Shagnasty's Playpen. Dustin J Cook - Kingsport, TN, USA -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:31:40 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: To the regular r.p.d. subscribers, and those who lurk. I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. The action I am moved to take (for myself) is to write several filters, which have cleaned up things in both of my Usenet clients. The following subject lines (threads) and an NG specific filter for some individuals are active, killing them, and cleaning up my view of r.p.d. considerably. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png For now I have just flagged David’s non-BS posts so his legit posts remain, but that is subject to change. The way things have gone, and seem to be going, I have no doubt that I will be modifying this filter group in the near future The Filters: Assholes/and others lured to r.p.d. by David B. (there are currently 9 individuals and several variations of their ID where they have changed in their short history in r.p.d.) The Threads filtered: ISBN 1-874416-68-0 ISBN 1-874416-68-0 Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents Torrents Copyright Infringing Pirate? (was - Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0)) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! Watermarks Watermarks Can anyone reading here explain this apparent anomaly to me, please? About me! Where I keep my spare cats. Screenshot! (was - Where I keep my spare cats) Win10 slow shut down What's the problem? Beauregard T. Shagnasty's Playpen. Dustin J Cook - Kingsport, TN, USA With Forte Agent, I can just right click to kill. There might be something just as easy for Mac. I haven't bothered yet because it's so easy to see the problem threads instantly. Highlight and delete works for me, for now. |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Aug 15, 2017, Bill W wrote
(in ): On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:31:40 -0700, Savageduck wrote: To the regular r.p.d. subscribers, and those who lurk. I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. The action I am moved to take (for myself) is to write several filters, which have cleaned up things in both of my Usenet clients. The following subject lines (threads) and an NG specific filter for some individuals are active, killing them, and cleaning up my view of r.p.d. considerably. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png For now I have just flagged David’s non-BS posts so his legit posts remain, but that is subject to change. The way things have gone, and seem to be going, I have no doubt that I will be modifying this filter group in the near future The Filters: Assholes/and others lured to r.p.d. by David B. (there are currently 9 individuals and several variations of their ID where they have changed in their short history in r.p.d.) The Threads filtered: ISBN 1-874416-68-0 ISBN 1-874416-68-0 Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents Torrents Copyright Infringing Pirate? (was - Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0)) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! Watermarks Watermarks Can anyone reading here explain this apparent anomaly to me, please? About me! Where I keep my spare cats. Screenshot! (was - Where I keep my spare cats) Win10 slow shut down What's the problem? Beauregard T. Shagnasty's Playpen. Dustin J Cook - Kingsport, TN, USA With Forte Agent, I can just right click to kill. I have that option with Hogwasher, but that only deals with an individual message. There might be something just as easy for Mac. See Above: I haven't bothered yet because it's so easy to see the problem threads instantly. Highlight and delete works for me, for now. I see no point in even having to see them any more. Let a filter handle the problem, and for me it is as if they never happened. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:50:03 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On Aug 15, 2017, Bill W wrote (in ): On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:31:40 -0700, Savageduck wrote: To the regular r.p.d. subscribers, and those who lurk. I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. The action I am moved to take (for myself) is to write several filters, which have cleaned up things in both of my Usenet clients. The following subject lines (threads) and an NG specific filter for some individuals are active, killing them, and cleaning up my view of r.p.d. considerably. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png For now I have just flagged David’s non-BS posts so his legit posts remain, but that is subject to change. The way things have gone, and seem to be going, I have no doubt that I will be modifying this filter group in the near future The Filters: Assholes/and others lured to r.p.d. by David B. (there are currently 9 individuals and several variations of their ID where they have changed in their short history in r.p.d.) The Threads filtered: ISBN 1-874416-68-0 ISBN 1-874416-68-0 Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents Torrents Copyright Infringing Pirate? (was - Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0)) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! Watermarks Watermarks Can anyone reading here explain this apparent anomaly to me, please? About me! Where I keep my spare cats. Screenshot! (was - Where I keep my spare cats) Win10 slow shut down What's the problem? Beauregard T. Shagnasty's Playpen. Dustin J Cook - Kingsport, TN, USA With Forte Agent, I can just right click to kill. I have that option with Hogwasher, but that only deals with an individual message. There might be something just as easy for Mac. See Above: I haven't bothered yet because it's so easy to see the problem threads instantly. Highlight and delete works for me, for now. I see no point in even having to see them any more. Let a filter handle the problem, and for me it is as if they never happened. Yeah, whatever works. I have several kill filters on another NG. I feel like a 3d world tyrant - like I disappeared them. It's a good feeling. At the same time, as long as you can still laugh at these things, there are definitely some characters that showed up here. It's an interesting diversion if you're bored. Really, really, bored. |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:31:40 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: To the regular r.p.d. subscribers, and those who lurk. I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. The action I am moved to take (for myself) is to write several filters, which have cleaned up things in both of my Usenet clients. The following subject lines (threads) and an NG specific filter for some individuals are active, killing them, and cleaning up my view of r.p.d. considerably. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png For now I have just flagged David’s non-BS posts so his legit posts remain, but that is subject to change. The way things have gone, and seem to be going, I have no doubt that I will be modifying this filter group in the near future The Filters: Assholes/and others lured to r.p.d. by David B. (there are currently 9 individuals and several variations of their ID where they have changed in their short history in r.p.d.) The Threads filtered: ISBN 1-874416-68-0 ISBN 1-874416-68-0 Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents Torrents Copyright Infringing Pirate? (was - Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0)) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! Watermarks Watermarks Can anyone reading here explain this apparent anomaly to me, please? About me! Where I keep my spare cats. Screenshot! (was - Where I keep my spare cats) Win10 slow shut down What's the problem? Beauregard T. Shagnasty's Playpen. Dustin J Cook - Kingsport, TN, USA I share your feelings but haven't gone quite so far. A good thing about Agent (my newsreader) is that it downloads headers for my contemplation. I mark the full article for downloading with but a single keystroke. Only when it gets particularly bad do I kill-file a single person but that is frustrated by nymshifting. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame WarPosts.
On 16/08/2017 12:31 @wiz, Savageduck wrote:
I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. Ah-yup! I'm soooo tired of interminable flame war threads here and just about everywhere else in Usenet where traffic still shows up... I've taken to completely ignore looooong threads as I know they are nothing more than useless and time-wasting flaming. It might be entertainig to the idiots that feed them. Me, bother? Nup! One of the reasons why I have moved on to FB and other places where I can simply block the authors with a click. Unfortunately with Usenet it's not as easy: most news readers are hopeless in that area and most flame "experts" can easily avoid filtering with multiple addresses. Forte used to be good but I gave up on it a while ago after one update screwed up some of my Windoze dlls. Usenet has another 3-4 years of life left, and that's if Google doesn't decide to clam it up once and for all without warning. |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame WarPosts.
On 16/08/2017 10:47, Noons said...
if Google doesn't decide to clam it up once and for all without warning. Google doesn't control Usenet. Do, please, explain what you mean. This item might help you better understand matters - http://www.usenet.org/ -- David B. |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Aug 16, 2017, Noons wrote
(in article ): On 16/08/2017 12:31 @wiz, Savageduck wrote: I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. Ah-yup! I'm soooo tired of interminable flame war threads here and just about everywhere else in Usenet where traffic still shows up... So you understand. I've taken to completely ignore looooong threads as I know they are nothing more than useless and time-wasting flaming. It might be entertainig to the idiots that feed them. Me, bother? Nup! Most of the silly long threads and arguments created by the regular r.p.d. subscribers are predictable, and they are easy to ignore. The nature of the current intrusion is of a very different nature and level of NG killing toxicity. One of the reasons why I have moved on to FB and other places where I can simply block the authors with a click. I have never been a Facebook fan. However, my step-daughter-from-Hell is an addict. Unfortunately with Usenet it's not as easy: most news readers are hopeless in that area and most flame "experts" can easily avoid filtering with multiple addresses. Forte used to be good but I gave up on it a while ago after one update screwed up some of my Windoze dlls. Currently on my Mac, Hogwasher makes filtering, including simple killing, deleting individual posts, adding changes due the nymshifters, and in the case of the issue which provoked my rant, changes to the subject line simple. Usenet has another 3-4 years of life left, and that's if Google doesn't decide to clam it up once and for all without warning. Fortunately Usenet doesn’t live and die by Google. If anything Google Groups has provided spammers and nuisance posters a gateway into Usenet. Many of those using Google Groups are actually unaware of the existance of Usenet, and believe that it is some sort of Google thing. Usenet will die when the older users such as us die off, and/or when providers other than Google (which is not a true Usenet provider), can no longer sustain their servers. Then the Google Groups server farms will be a strange archive of a faded past. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Aug 16, 2017, Paul Carmichael wrote
(in article ): El 16/08/17 a las 04:31, Savageduck escribiĂł: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png I don't understand. What does it mean? It is just a screenshot of the message window of my Usenet client, Hogwasher, clean of all the polluting, and invading threads. The different colors are just some of my color coding of my posts, and other individuals. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT(...or perhaps not): My Position on David B. OT Flame War Posts.
On Aug 15, 2017, Bill W wrote
(in ): On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:50:03 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On Aug 15, 2017, Bill W wrote (in ): On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:31:40 -0700, Savageduck wrote: To the regular r.p.d. subscribers, and those who lurk. I have reached my breaking point with regard to the intrusive, OT, polluting, cross posts into r.p.d.. The action I am moved to take (for myself) is to write several filters, which have cleaned up things in both of my Usenet clients. The following subject lines (threads) and an NG specific filter for some individuals are active, killing them, and cleaning up my view of r.p.d. considerably. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuw641jobwdpyo9/screenshot_136.png For now I have just flagged David’s non-BS posts so his legit posts remain, but that is subject to change. The way things have gone, and seem to be going, I have no doubt that I will be modifying this filter group in the near future The Filters: Assholes/and others lured to r.p.d. by David B. (there are currently 9 individuals and several variations of their ID where they have changed in their short history in r.p.d.) The Threads filtered: ISBN 1-874416-68-0 ISBN 1-874416-68-0 Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) Torrents Torrents Copyright Infringing Pirate? (was - Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0)) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! (was: Torrents (was : ISBN 1-874416-68-0) OT ... The truth WILL out! Watermarks Watermarks Can anyone reading here explain this apparent anomaly to me, please? About me! Where I keep my spare cats. Screenshot! (was - Where I keep my spare cats) Win10 slow shut down What's the problem? Beauregard T. Shagnasty's Playpen. Dustin J Cook - Kingsport, TN, USA With Forte Agent, I can just right click to kill. I have that option with Hogwasher, but that only deals with an individual message. There might be something just as easy for Mac. See Above: I haven't bothered yet because it's so easy to see the problem threads instantly. Highlight and delete works for me, for now. I see no point in even having to see them any more. Let a filter handle the problem, and for me it is as if they never happened. Yeah, whatever works. I have several kill filters on another NG. I feel like a 3d world tyrant - like I disappeared them. It's a good feeling. At the same time, as long as you can still laugh at these things, there are definitely some characters that showed up here. It's an interesting diversion if you're bored. Really, really, bored. I am not that bored. It becomes tiresome very quickly, and brings out the curmudgeon in me. I don’t need to have them playing on my lawn. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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