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Is this NG about boats or politics?
What's with all the non-boat material?
JS |
Is this NG about boats or politics?
What's with all the non-boat material?
JS sailors sail; bathtub sailors argue politics (which has no meaning) |
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Its just a bunch of idiots trying to impress people. It doesn't work. And
then you have a few that change their address once in a while. I suspect complaints caught up with them. Just keep updating your kill file. -- Bill Chesapeake, Va "John Smith" wrote in message ... What's with all the non-boat material? JS |
Is this NG about boats or politics?
John: yes, it is a nuisance, and as it's an unmoderated group, there's not
much we can do about it. Your news reader program will have filters which you can configure to ignore keywords or particular senders whom you find egregious. But I find I can do a quick scan through the messages and pick out the few boating topics which might interest me. I rarely even read the other stuff (this message being an exception!). Responding to non-boating material, and especially getting into contests of who said what when and are they really an idiot, I find completely unproductive. Responding to those people in any manner whatsoever only feeds them, and the only way to defeat them is to ignore them. Sometimes this requires swallowing one's ego temporarily. Outlook Express can mark certain threads as "interesting," and then I follow those, and ignore any starting with "" if I didn't mark them at the beginning of the thread. Then I only look for new thread topics. Very fast. Type "newsgroup etiquette" or "netiquette" into a search engine, and all your questions will be answered. In the meantime ... how's your boating going? Do you have any one burning issue you would like to present to the group? (I suggest a new, re-titled thread for that.) Charles ==== Charles T. Low - remove "UN" www.boatdocking.com/BDPhoto.html - Photo Contest www.boatdocking.com www.ctlow.ca/Trojan26 - my boat ==== "John Smith" wrote in message ... What's with all the non-boat material? JS |
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"IBNFSHN" wrote in message news:Eg7Bc.10372$cj3.956@lakeread01...
Its just a bunch of idiots trying to impress people. It doesn't work. And then you have a few that change their address once in a while. I suspect complaints caught up with them. Just keep updating your kill file. -- Bill Chesapeake, Va "John Smith" wrote in message ... What's with all the non-boat material? JS Forget the killfile. IP search 'em then send a complaint to their ISP for off-topic postings. |
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(OT) Is this NG about boats or politics?
"Harry Krause" wrote in message If you really are interested in controlling the excesses of usenet, then support measurements that require all posts to contain within the headers the actual name and actual ISP of the poster, except for those newsgroups that deal strictly with the reporting of child abuse. That will cut way down on all sorts of posts from posters who don't have the cojones to use their real names and IP addresses, like "John Smith" here. Harry, you using your own name and it has not reduce your obnoxious posts. You are so ashamed of your behavior in rec.boats that you took offense when JohnH said you are very similar to the person you present in rec.boats. |
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