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I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

I suppose free speech and all that, but surely, there are more appropriate
places these idiots can go to to talk about whatever they want. Perhaps
they could even create their own newsgroup and go away and stop bothering
those who have something positive to say on the subject.

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free speech, but
many of us don't have time for their junk.

Suggestions please.

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"Nick Byford" wrote in message
...
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

I suppose free speech and all that, but surely, there are more appropriate
places these idiots can go to to talk about whatever they want. Perhaps
they could even create their own newsgroup and go away and stop bothering
those who have something positive to say on the subject.

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free speech,
but
many of us don't have time for their junk.

Suggestions please.


Ignore them is my suggestion. The latest bunch appeared as crosspostings to
various other groups. They'll get bored. If you had been here a few months
ago, we were getting about 5000 posts full of gibberish every day. They got
bored in the end.

Steve

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Nick Byford writes
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

I suppose free speech and all that, but surely, there are more appropriate
places these idiots can go to to talk about whatever they want. Perhaps
they could even create their own newsgroup and go away and stop bothering
those who have something positive to say on the subject.

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free speech, but
many of us don't have time for their junk.

Suggestions please.

Try using your killfile.


--
Kay

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Nick Byford wrote:
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

Usenet tradition. If you ignore trolls they eventually die out. We
had very little of this sort of thing last year, it comes and goes.

Suggestions please.
Killfiles and filters help. Filtering on cross-posting removes the
worst problems. Just be grateful the emm-eye-five man is not an
urgler: he rather clogs up our sister group, the shedde.

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"Nick Byford" wrote in message
...
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

I suppose free speech and all that, but surely, there are more appropriate
places these idiots can go to to talk about whatever they want. Perhaps
they could even create their own newsgroup and go away and stop bothering
those who have something positive to say on the subject.

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free speech,
but
many of us don't have time for their junk.

Suggestions please.



You could set up a killfile for the authors of the articles, or kill the
subjects.

Alan

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"Nick Byford" wrote
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the
subject matter.
snip

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free
speech, but many of us don't have time for their junk.

Suggestions please.

Don't know about anyone else but I'd prefer to be my own moderator. It's
pretty obvious which articles and threads are the crossposted junk and
you don't have to spend time reading any of it. Just highlight the items
concerned, or the whole thread as appropriate, then hit 'delete'. It
takes nanoseconds. For individuals that continually 'get your goat'
simply ignore or killfile them.

--
Sue

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"Nick Byford" wrote in message
...
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

I suppose free speech and all that, but surely, there are more appropriate
places these idiots can go to to talk about whatever they want. Perhaps
they could even create their own newsgroup and go away and stop bothering
those who have something positive to say on the subject.

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free speech,
but
many of us don't have time for their junk.
Suggestions please.

Ignoring them is the best policy. They are attention seeking nitwits and
usually fade back into the woodwork after a while if they get no responses
to their posts.

Jenny

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JennyC wrote:
They are attention seeking nitwits
Agreed. Living proof that it is possible to have an IQ in negative
numbers.

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"Nick Byford" wrote in message
...
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

I suppose free speech and all that, but surely, there are more appropriate
places these idiots can go to to talk about whatever they want. Perhaps
they could even create their own newsgroup and go away and stop bothering
those who have something positive to say on the subject.

Perhaps this group needs a moderator. Flyng in the face of free speech,
but
many of us don't have time for their junk.

Suggestions please.

set a filter on your newsreader and filter them out completely