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Re: Stop with the [News] postings already!!!

  • Subject: Re: Stop with the [News] postings already!!!
  • From: ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:41:12 -0600
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <LLednXVkNq_WynnZnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com> <pan.2006.08.17.15.37.11.972467@zianet.com> <5vper3-okv.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk>
  • User-agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1141753
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:43:17 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:

> begin  oe_protect.scr 
> ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:54:46 -0400, mlw wrote:
>> 
>>> I know you probably mean well, but it is behaving more like spam than actual
>>> advocacy. It is getting in the way of seeing/finding discussions. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If you feel compelled to post [News] could you batch all your stories in one
>>> or two messages a day?
>> 
>> AMEN!! Could all of that shit be routed to a 'computer news' newsgroup or
>> something - talk about clogging the bandwidth!!
>> 
> 
> No, absolutely not.  The signal/noise ratio here is the best it's been
> for ages.  If you don't like it, then why not mark down the [news] items
> in your reader?

IMHO - his postings (which are nearly all noise) have lowered the
signal/noise ratio to near zero.

> 
> Roy - please keep posting, as you are doing - please do /not/ group
> items, as this will merely offer the trolls some comfort.  If people
> can't work a killfile, it's their problem.

Why should they have to?


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