This has been discussed to death in the past.

You and I and everybody else have NO POWER to control what will be
posted here and starting yet another round of complaints will do no good
and just overwhelm the posts of things we are interested in or feel are
the only things that should be allowed.

Why not cut THIS "crap" complaint and get on with more important things?

THIS DISCUSSION is worse than the FA posts and will likely take up more
time and bytes and energy than the FA posts. I guess I'll add this
subject to my filter and not have to bother seeing it.

As long as posters uses the requested FA or FA: for auctions and FS or
FS: and doesn't try to hide FA or FS items with a deceptive title, you
can use a filter and never see them.

If you don't have a way to filter out the FA and FS posts so you never
see them then use some other free news reader. Even my several year old
Netscape works fine to filter out "crap" posts like this and the fallout
that it'll generate.

If you're still using a simple text reader and your system won't run
more modern software just realize that's a problem you'll have to deal
with.


radioman wrote:

Why I ask?????????????????