Re: When a newsgroup ought to be shut down

Lars Kecke wrote:

BruceS wrote:

VictoriaCatherine@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Lars Kecke wrote:

Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer wrote:

I don't even know if anyone will be reading this.


you are not killfiled yet.


Lars, how do you *know* Frank isn't killfiled?


I just made an educated guess, since he only has 44 posts on google, 41 of them in German newsgroups. You must have been awfully trigger-happy to killfile somebody for just popping his head up once.

Great imagery there. I generally only shoot at stationary pieces of paper, but the thought still makes me laugh.

OTOH you might have a whitelist or know him personally.

I challenge you to report the contents of *my* killfile!


If I could, I would go out and get Randi's Million.

If he's in it (was in it when you posted), then your statement is an unforgiveable lie and you must apologize profusely.


d'oh. And how can I know that the state you claim your killfile to have been in before I posted was actually the state it was in? Do you regularily send backups of your killfile to a notary?

There have only been a handful of times I've backed up my killfile *without* sending a copy to a notary, and those times, the killfile was incidental to the backup.

It will be on topic
because it has something to do with the newsgroup itself.


Meta-discussions suck, so let's start a meta-meta-discussion about why
they suck :-).

Lars, feeding trolls


Should we be clear when we know we're doing that? Does it perhaps spoil the food?


Hmmm. Some people just don't realize they are trolling, and I thought the OP was one of them. And since irony is mostly lost in translation I, as a non-native speaker, went for a small notification along the lines of "p.s. you're trolling".

Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I assumed it was an intentional troll.

What befuddles me is that I haven't even seen the OP here before, so
he's not been around long enough to want to get rid of this group. I
think he's just flexing his muscles.


I've "been around" ROM since the mid '90s, and absolutely don't have the ability to get rid of the group.


"you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave".

Heh. The establishment ran out of my favorite vintages, so I tried what was offered. Pink champagne indeed---nasty stuff. This is certainly not Heaven.

Check out JimC's posts in this thread for a more humorous take on it. OTOH, if Frank finds ROM a wasteland, and wants to get rid of it, he can easily unsubscribe, and never waste his time on it again.


:-).

Ditto, with interest. Thanks for the laughs.
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