Re: OT: Newsgroup integrity

Jim wrote:

We're seeing more and more crossposting here which impacts adversely on
our core group RAMN. Shown below is a message I sent to the creators of
Thunderbird, my news and mail client. My desire is to establish a grass
roots efforts to regain control of our newsgroups. Whether you use
Thunderbird, Outlook, or any other news reader I suggest you send in
something similar to get the minds working on a fix.

Thanks

Chief Jim

Controlling Crossposting

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Jim, some newsreaders allow you to filter out messages posted to more than a
certain number of newsgroups, precisely to defeat cross-posted garbage. The
old version (4.72) of Netscape I'm still using doesn't allow this, but I know
that other newsreaders do. If you ask over on rec.aviation.military or
sci.military.naval I'm sure someone will be able to point you towards one that
will do this. Most people seem to find that filtering any message posted to
more than say 3 newsgroups gets rid of the spam and off-topic political rants.

Lacking that capability I either have to set a filter for the subject once it
shows up, or else hit "Mark Thread as Read" manually for the junk; either
consumes some minimal but sometimes annoying amount of time. And killfiling
the most obnoxious posters also works, but again takes a little time putting
them into filters for each newsgroup I read, especially as some of them
continuously change names to avoid being permanently killfiled. One bozo, in
his various incarnations, has now just about filled up four of my sender
killfile lists (each of five names) all by himself. But he's a minor
annoyance, as I just add his new alias to the list or begin a new one whenever
he assumes a new variant -- it's the people who I'm loathe to killfile and who
should know better but who respond to his posts anyway, who generate the
majority of posts on a subject he started.

Guy

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