Re: Attn: JMW - Re: Triathlon

rwk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Runs With Knives) wrote:

>In article <3l6r9kF115qjkU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Dally <Dally@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Lee Michaels wrote:
>>
>>> Talking to he David-Hudson symbiote is like talking to a pathogen. Not only
>>> don't they care or are capable of rational thought, but you could get a
>>> disease from them.
>>
>> I thread the articles and when the chain is all Charles and David I just
>> skip those branches.
>
>My newsreader goes one better: I can specify a kill-file entry kill
>the entire sub-thread following the "hit." It has been my experience
>that whatever's in a thread following a comment by a newsgroup's
>troll usually isn't worth dredging through.

The operative word being "usually." Sometimes, there is a message
worthy of response that is revealed by subsequent replies or in a new
thread (with a different subject header) that quotes from the earlier
thread. Rather than "piggybacking" on someone else's reply, it is
better to go back to the original and respond to it. I simply
identify the authors I don't wish to read, highlight their posts, and
click "Mark Read." Their messages are still available if I decide
them worthy of a response.

By the same token, I have plenty of hard drive space, so I personally
archive MFW for the purpose of reminding those x-no-archivers who
habitually falsify and misrepresent what they wrote earlier.
.

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