This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash. This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash. This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash. This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash. This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash. This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash. This group needs a monitor to eliminate the trash.
Agreed, I like it, but then I don't often encounter yEnc (which TB does not handle reliably) or split posts (which it doesn't handle at all.) Those glitches are issues for some people.
Same here; Thunderbird and its cousin Firefox have been the preferred e-mail/newsgroup reader and browser for many years. And the Adblock Plus extension to Firefox works incredibly well for eliminating nearly all of the annoying ads that infest most web pages. Since AT&T dropped newsgroup access (the Bastards!) I have been using free newsgroup access through eternal-september.org very satisfactorily. They do NOT do binaries, only text groups, but that's all I need.
Most of the denizens of "clean" binary NGs (ie, pictures cars, gardens, etc) prefer MIME or uUencoded posts, and frowns on splits, especially when part 2 is a small fraction of part 1. yEnc causes heightened blood pressure in some of the denizens.
I use Trains.com forums. Far better than this forum has ever been. Some years ago there where garbage mouths who controlled the forum so I found about twenty other model train/DCC forums that are considerably better.
Google Groups are where the Internet wll get a Colonoscopy to clean them out.
Other than using filters and common sense to strain out the spammers and fruitloops, you can't. (Usenet newsgroups are pretty much Freedom Hall, where you're free to spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard if you so desire.)
The good part of this is that you don't have someone else -who may very well have his own agenda- deciding what you're allowed to say here and what you aren't.
The bad part is that those rules (or lack of same) attract spammers and fruitloops who have *thier* own agendas and who want to either sell you something or convince you to become a character actor in their own private psychodrama.
In short, it's freedom boiled right down to it's essentials: the fact that *you* are completely free here means that everyone else is too. For better or worse.
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