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.
Newsgroups being used for news? Whatever next, webpages on the web?
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Regards, Ed :: http://www.s5h.net
proud python person
Chuck Norris would hit that.
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