Re: content of the NG


Hello, everyone. It has been a long time since my last post here. Out
of over a 1000 posts I found barely any worth a conversation. A sad
state of affairs indeed.

Serge.


On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:09:21 -0500, "Andrew Chaplin"
<ab.chaplin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Wes" <wesley.howarth-ANTISPAM.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:dpr8dr$5m3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
>
>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."

.

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