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Re: Roy Schestowitz: Oh man

  • Subject: Re: Roy Schestowitz: Oh man
  • From: ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:42:30 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: NTL
  • References: <e9uhuzdzu49n$.dlg@tjb.invalid.invalid>
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1166825
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:34:02 +0100
tjb <tjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please, for the love of $DEITY, stop.  You have made this group
> unusable.
> 
> I don't want to have to killfile all of your news posts, because I
> want to read *some* of them.  The problem is simply that you post too
> many -- far, far too many -- to the extent that the group is flooded.
> 
> Further, no-one should have to killfile your news posts just to make
> the group usable.  Unfortunately, this *is* the situation now.
> 
> Now, some have defended Roy on the grounds that the posts flood out
> all the FUD and trolling and such.  Well, I can understand this to a
> point, but then if you really don't want to see all that, then why
> even visit this group?  And I think that in this respect the flooding
> hinders more than it helps -- if the group is getting flooded, then
> when someone searches Google Groups and encounters FUD, they won't see
> any refutation, because the FUD is a needle in a haystack to regular
> readers right now (obviously I'm exaggerating, but simply to make a
> point).
> 
> Please, please post significantly fewer news posts.

I'm going to mark this entire thread as read. No more problem for me.
You are part of the problem. If people like you stopped making pointless
trolls perhaps we'd have MORE news to read and LESS mindless drivel.

-- 
Regards, Ed                      :: http://s5h.net/qf
just another java hacker
Florida is often referred to as America's wang. Chuck Norris laughs 
at America's small stature. 

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