Re: One sign of the death of a newsgroup

Peter Seiler wrote:

in another NG I read:

"One of the signs that a newsgroup is dying, or becoming more or less
useless, is when the number of posts devoted to ad hominem attacks exceeds the number of on-topic posts.

<snip>

That's what kill files and filters are for. I use nfilter to drop anything cross posted to more than two groups or to specific groups, and that kills about 75% of the crap, more in specific groups. Then using the Thunderbird kill file for specific idiots and the functions "mark thread read" and "ignore thread" gets rid of most of the rest.

I've had as few as 3 posts out of 200+ on the server make it through.
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