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Off Topic Posting Has Finally Hit Its Inevitable Bottom.
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... As most of you know, I use Agent as a newsreader. I have, over the last 6-8 months, aggressively (automated) filtered the newsgroup, first on "OT" as advertised in the Subject line, then on "political" words in the subject, and finally on certain posters that refused, for whatever selfish reasons, to (1) identify their post as off topic and (2) to post enough On Topic information to warrant wading through all of their contributions. Agent also allows for killing entire threads manually, if the reader deems the subject line disinteresting and I have used this method more and more in the previous few weeks. A few weeks ago, I had loaded Agent on a different computer and inadvertently failed to copy the filter file information from the backup.... the net result was that I had no filters, but I wasn't seeing any of the offending poster's names, either!!! Imagine my surprise, today, when I realized that I was manually filtering 99.9% of the off topic content solely by Subject line! I was amazed and Googled up confirmation. What does this mean? It means that the posters that I had kill filed for refusing to post significantly on topic were now posting *exclusively* Off Topic! They've finally reached the lowest of lows.... posting, polluting, and vandalizing a boating newsgroup when they have absolutely no expressed interest in boating. It also means they have become that much easier to filter....... -- 23' Grady White, out of Southport, NC. http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/cavern/ Homepage http://www.southharbourvillageinn.com/directions.asp Where Southport,NC is located. http://southharbourvillageinn.linksysnet.com Real Time Pictures at My Marina http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide blah, blah, blah... Are the fish biting????  db |
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Off Topic Posting Has Finally Hit Its Inevitable Bottom.
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... As most of you know, I use Agent as a newsreader. I have, over the last 6-8 months, aggressively (automated) filtered the newsgroup, first on "OT" as advertised in the Subject line, then on "political" words in the subject, and finally on certain posters that refused, for whatever selfish reasons, to (1) identify their post as off topic and (2) to post enough On Topic information to warrant wading through all of their contributions. Agent also allows for killing entire threads manually, if the reader deems the subject line disinteresting and I have used this method more and more in the previous few weeks. A few weeks ago, I had loaded Agent on a different computer and inadvertently failed to copy the filter file information from the backup.... the net result was that I had no filters, but I wasn't seeing any of the offending poster's names, either!!! Imagine my surprise, today, when I realized that I was manually filtering 99.9% of the off topic content solely by Subject line! I was amazed and Googled up confirmation. What does this mean? It means that the posters that I had kill filed for refusing to post significantly on topic were now posting *exclusively* Off Topic! They've finally reached the lowest of lows.... posting, polluting, and vandalizing a boating newsgroup when they have absolutely no expressed interest in boating. It also means they have become that much easier to filter....... -- 23' Grady White, out of Southport, NC. http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/cavern/ Homepage http://www.southharbourvillageinn.com/directions.asp Where Southport,NC is located. http://southharbourvillageinn.linksysnet.com Real Time Pictures at My Marina http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide You regularly exchange posts here with Krause, perhaps the biggest offender of OT posts and starting OT threads. Is he now in your bozo file or are you going to continue to be a hypocrite? |
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Off Topic Posting Has Finally Hit Its Inevitable Bottom.
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message news  On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:15:19 -0400, "jim--" wrote: You regularly exchange posts here with Krause, perhaps the biggest offender of OT posts and starting OT threads. Is he now in your bozo file or are you going to continue to be a hypocrite? I think, upon examination, you (or anyone with any interest) will find your statement, "You regularly exchange posts here with Krause" to be clearly untrue. Harry has managed to escape the killfile by starting his subject line with the "OT" warning. I don't see his political posts because they are removed by subject before I see them. Why don't you do the same? Ah, but I do. You have already posted that you believe rec.boats to be a poor boating resource. You have publicly admitted that you do not come here to discuss boating. Agreed, I said that a while back. I hope your dick is as long as your memory. You privately emailed people with URLs of boating forums and encouraged them to leave rec.boats for these forums. I posted URL's of boating forums in this NG when folks asked what was out there. I never privately emailed them Please don't make up stories. That is certainly not true. What *were* your motivations. There is no single OT poster with more of an agenda for OT posting and a hatred for rec.boats. Try again, there are plenty. But you obviously have a hard on for me, but that's OK. Who would be more deserving of an OT killfile than you? and why? You certainly are an anrgy guy Eugene. I could care less if you killfile me. In fact, please do. -- 23' Grady White, out of Southport, NC. http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/cavern/ Homepage http://www.southharbourvillageinn.com/directions.asp Where Southport,NC is located. http://southharbourvillageinn.linksysnet.com Real Time Pictures at My Marina http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide |
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Off Topic Posting Has Finally Hit Its Inevitable Bottom.
I see that Krause, the biggest offender of OT posts, has not been killfiled
by you. You responded to him just yesterday. Hypocrite. "Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... As most of you know, I use Agent as a newsreader. I have, over the last 6-8 months, aggressively (automated) filtered the newsgroup, first on "OT" as advertised in the Subject line, then on "political" words in the subject, and finally on certain posters that refused, for whatever selfish reasons, to (1) identify their post as off topic and (2) to post enough On Topic information to warrant wading through all of their contributions. Agent also allows for killing entire threads manually, if the reader deems the subject line disinteresting and I have used this method more and more in the previous few weeks. A few weeks ago, I had loaded Agent on a different computer and inadvertently failed to copy the filter file information from the backup.... the net result was that I had no filters, but I wasn't seeing any of the offending poster's names, either!!! Imagine my surprise, today, when I realized that I was manually filtering 99.9% of the off topic content solely by Subject line! I was amazed and Googled up confirmation. What does this mean? It means that the posters that I had kill filed for refusing to post significantly on topic were now posting *exclusively* Off Topic! They've finally reached the lowest of lows.... posting, polluting, and vandalizing a boating newsgroup when they have absolutely no expressed interest in boating. It also means they have become that much easier to filter....... -- |
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I hope to meet you at the Autosport Show, I plan to attend the Thursday and Sunday
Not bad for our first attempt - especially given the prowess (and budgets) of the opposition this necessity is the mother of invention background layout sexy i love you |
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