Zero On topic out of 11

Feel free to post something on-topic

Or something relevent to misc.survivalism..............

I'm with you Pete, what the f*&k is it that these idiots crosspost their
blather!

<rant over>

On 5/23/2012 11:17 PM, Dennis wrote:

They are politicians.  All of 'em.
And politicians don't have to follow the rules.

I never could get hula hoops to work. But, I had a red wagon to play with.
Wooden one. With removable sides.

Christopher A. Young
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Seriously? What information would that be?

They DO have their "own" ngs, but I think intuitively these people know that
the posters in those ngs are inherently dysfunctional and useless, so they
xpost to groups that DO have a productive functional constitutency.

They also don't understand "entropy" or "critical mass".
But, get used to it, cuz they will NEVER go away.  Be glad they are not
ACTIVELY sabotaging the group, which is surprisingly easy to do.

The only way to offset their effects is with more on-topic posting, a kind
of UNdiluting.

Many good ngs that had quite a heyday are *totally* dead now.
--
EA

It is better to post one on topic message, than curse the darkness.

Christopher A. Young
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.

Subject says it all.
  Why not start your own newsgroup,  "alt.politics"?

And no, I don't know or care about filtering and don't think I should have
to.

Pete Stanaitis
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On Wed, 23 May 2012 21:48:48 -0500, "Pete S"


This group is certainly no where near what it was ten years ago.
Still, I get questions answered most every time. And i learn a bit,
nor easy for an old fart like me.

I do filter out a few dozen names. And I've learned to not read over
half the posts that still come through. I used to read every one.

Oh well, I've found other groups to spend time, but all in all RCM is
still my favorite spot.

Karl
 

Karl Townsend wrote:

   Most of the idiots will be hiding and licking their wounds after the
elections. :)


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like RCM.

I think that's quotable.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
  www.lds.org
.


Oh well, I've found other groups to spend time, but all in all RCM is
still my favorite spot.

Karl

On Thu, 24 May 2012 11:31:19 -0500, Karl Townsend


  If people who must reply to political and other offtopic posts would
reply to cross posts on the ORIGINATING newsgroup and not this one
then the rubbish would be reduced even more.

   The other day there were 273 headers downloaded by Agent, of which
218 were crossposts and delete,d leaving 55 originating from this
newsgroup.   Unfortunately some people only reply to crossposts on
this newsgroup and I have to visually filter ( i.e. ignore ) those
ones unless I am curious and read some of them.    

    Alan

  

    [ ... ]


    And how do you tell what is the *originating* newsgroup?  You
can't depend on the order in which the "Newsgroups: " header lists
newsgroups, and the threads likely were started cross-posted at the
beginning.

    Cross-posting *does* have its uses, and the primary example here
is the weekly puzzle which is cross posted between rec.puzzles,
rec.crafts.metalworking and rec.woodworking -- a pretty reasonable
cross-posting given what it is.

    This is one reason why I like the ability to score and filter
based on the score.  Add a negative score for one comma, and increment
it for the next two or three until you have enough so it is fully
blocked (you can set the threshold at which the killfile takes effect),
and then add a positive score for a particular cross-posting or
"Subject: " line, so I see what I want, and don't see all the other
cross-postings.


    Those who automatically limit the "Newsgroups: " header to the
newsgroup in which they read an article can cause things which were
blocked by my anti-crosspost filtering to suddenly appear, so I have to
add the "Subject: " to the filtering too.

    It is really getting to the point that you have to be *good* at
setting up and maintaining filters to get something useful out of this
newsgroup.  I do wish that it had been formed as a moderated newsgroup,
but I'm not sure that we would have been able to keep moderators, so the
newsgroups could die that way too.

    Enjoy,
        DoN.

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Does that include this one?  If not, make that 0 of 12.  <G>