"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message
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from "Crazy Dog" contains these words:

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From the exchanges that have already taken place, and the lack of
netiquette
I have already observed in this group I would regard most users as very
inexperienced.

You'll find that many of the established users only come out of the
woodwork when prodded, or when they have something to contribute.

I'll probably be doing a lot of lurking myself. Gardening is still full of
mysery for me. Ooops. Freudian slip - I meant mystery!

Others, (myself included) tend to be a bit more active (and often
off-topic).

Off-topic I can do.

Unfortunately there are personality clashes, in most of which I will not
take sides (and I do wish they'd just ignore one-another). However,
there's one I make and take exception to - so here's to absent fiends,
and long may he stay absent.

It's what a kill-file is for. Seriously, wherever more than one person
gathers there is likely to be the odd personality clash from time to time.
Some people become experts.

I hope there is no need to change or go elsewhere. Moderation
would mean delays in posts going public. Changing to a forum format
would
mean some users would not have access from pcs at work.

And only the Gardenbanterites would go there.

Them and us?

In general I prefer
unmoderated newsgroups. In general I believe that "if it ain't broke -
don't
fix it". My perception is that, due to the flooding the group is
experiencing, it /is/ broken as it is not a pleasant environment.

Most servers remove the rubbish before anyone gets a chance to download
it.

Hmm. Wanadoo doesn't. Having said that I was online when yesterday's crap
started appearing. Perhaps they clean up retrospectively? I don't really
want to unsubscribe/re-subscribe to find out now I've deleted the crap in
OE.

That's
certainly not due to the genuine users.

No, as I see it, it's a uk.local.* thing mainly, and not restricted to
urg.

I had a little look around some other groups I've been involved in from time
to time. Some get flooded, some don't. I wonder how the morons decide which
ones they're going to target.

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Most of us include a bot-proof emu, and some post using their proper
addresses.

I haven't included a proper address for a long time. I don't use my ISP's
spam filter and I don't get much spam.

--
Crazy Dog
(Looking forward to freshly harvested potatoes at the weekend)