Re: content of the NG


"Andrew Chaplin" <ab.chaplin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Wes" <wesley.howarth-ANTISPAM.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > I thought that the objective of the news group was Medieval History,
> > instead we end up with all kinds of rubbish being posted to the
> group
> > from the US.
> >
> > I do not see how the US and US current affairs fit into medieval
> > history, afterall as a country they only have a couple of hundred
> years
> > of history.
> >
> > To the people who post here on subjects not related to medieval
> history
> > go and post somewhere else. We are not interested in the sheer
> rubish
> > that you post.
>
> Wes, you probably felt you had to get that off your chest, but I am
> afraid that trying to play net cop will only use up your bandwidth to
> no avail. You have let yourself be provoked by people who do not care
> that what they post is off-topic and offends some, and who will
> continue to do it as a means of getting attention. Their ISPs view
> Usenet as a such a low priority that they do not TOSs anyone for
> charter violations related to cross-posting or off-topic posting.
>

Charter violations? How quaint.

The Usenet "Charter" is not a law, it's a set of guidelines. There is
adherence or not adherence to guidelines, but no such thing as violations,
much as I understand that netcops and their friends would want the charter
to be made into law and carrying severe penalties.

People like that should start their own mail list and lay down their law to
their heart's content on the few, if any, members.

ISPs used to cancel people's accounts when extremely offensive attacks were
involved in times when they still bothered, but even then nothing was done
for mere off-topic posting.

My sympathies anyway.


> You are, I gather, using Mozilla or one of its descendants to post.
> You might look at its kill file and filtering capabilities and see how
> you might exploit them. Good luck. Set twit filters to "Stun."
> --

Set them to destroy, demolish and whiten the earth with salt, and buy the
Braveheart DVD. It's all the medieval history you need to know.



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