"Chris Bacon" wrote in message
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Rupert wrote:
"Janet Baraclough" wrote...
The message from Chris Bacon contains these words:
PammyT wrote:
how can I stop the garden banter posts
You can stop seeing them by using a killfile,
or similar. I don't think you can't stop them
being posted.

Anyone certainly can prevent their original usenet posts appearing on
gardenbanter, by prefacing each one "x-no-archive-yes". My newsreader
offers that as an automated option. Set it and forget it.

And for those folk using Outlook Express you can do it this way (a bit of
a fag)
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows95/oe-24.html


Hi Rupert - there are disadvantages to using xno=y, in that
articles aren't retained by any of the bigger repositories
such as google - so people interested in previously answered
questions can't retrieve them. I'm certainly *not* setting
it simply to avoid a tin-pot concern like G.B. (or DIYB) from
presenting my post to non-Usenet users. I think that the
disadvantages, in the wider scheme of things, far outweigh
any "advantages". What do you think?

I agree with Sue on this one but I certainly can see the problems associated
with the GB interface thingy as pointed out by Janet .
IMO the problem will only get worse due to the number of people who have
never heard of newsgroups and even when they have been shown all the joys
they still prefer to use forum events.