RCM hits a new low

It is children. Can't you tell by the posts?

Dan

Usenet is, sadly, in decline and has been for a while.

Like say 20 years or so...

What they do speaks for itself.

No sense wasting your time trying to understand them. What they do, and why they are so eager to do it, is beyond the grasp of any decent human being.

Nothing to do but to keep plonking 'em and don't look back.

Stranger still is that they choose to do it in public. It is very sad that they are so needy for attention.

decent human

sad that they are so needy for attention.

It's just a reaction to the crossposts that originate from RCM.

Example, Ed Huntress who is trolling other groups right now looking for gay sex with juveniles, while pretending to be doing research for an anthropology paper he is writing.

Reel in your trolls and the signal to noise ratio will improve.

Ha-ha! If Red's head explodes over on alt.survival, I'll let everyone know. d8-)

I'm reading this on Google Groups. Have had no success with filters.

Best bet is a real news reader and a news service provider which can be had for as little as $3 per month...

Hesitate to mention since they piss me off, but there is at least one (possibly more) web boards that are fronts to rec.crafts.metalworking. Found them by accident several years ago while searching for something obscure I was discussing here. "WTF, that is *my* post and I did not post it here!" Pretty sure they have good spam and troll filters so they should suck far less than Goggle Groups. And yes, you can post if you sign up with them and dance with the (lesser) devil.

Man I miss Deja News! Goggle did some serious /evil/ when they bought them out.

Vaguely related. Do a search on nomorobo. It is kind of a kill filter for robot telephone calls.

Dan

Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017 21:39:56 UTC+2 schrieb snipped-for-privacy@whidbey.com:

Eric, I agree. I keep thinking about switching to the Practical Machinist b oards, but I haven't got round to it. Mainly because I haven't got so much time to discuss metalworking these days.

Shame is, I do want to discuss metalworking when I come here. Not Trump, Ir aq, guns, abortion or the existence or non-existence of Gunner's backhoe (n ow, if we actually talked about the backhoe, that would be fine). But r.c.m has sadly become one huge big flame war and pissing contest lately.

Chris

I've been away for a week and only 113 got through my myriad filters. I don't know what their age is, but, yes, they're children.

Har! Google Groups? That's a self-inflicted wound, Rob. VBG.

I dunno, it's free, it works, you learn to ignore the crap. In the past, I maintained a full usenet feed and passed it on to dozens of downstream systems and used many different newsreaders. I have personally witnessed the rise and fall of the medium.

In the past 36 hours, Gunner (the real one) has initiated and cross-posted 8 provocative messages, intended to stir up s*it.

You're talking to one of the word offenders, John, and the guy who started the cross-posting s*it on RCM around 15 years ago.

Yes, and his cross-posts are the only reason I ever encountered this group in the first place.

And here I thought it was because you wanted balancing help with the

Either that, or guidance on lubricating your orange squeezer. d8-)

I realized once I got here that I could do that as well.

True enough. Google makes it very simple for people to access usenet; and simply ingnoring crap posts is simple and 100% effective.

I use 40tude dialog (free) and a paid usenet provider. Dialog is ancient - but highly configurable, with powerful filtering options. However, I only use basic filtering - primarily "keyword" filters. I have a list of terms on the usual suspects where "crap" is gennerally at play: blatant political, religious, marketing, personal insults, and/or obscene, crap. That way Dialog just strips anything in that keyword list before I ever see it, which really helps when I scan the larger number of groups that I'm subscribed.