STOP YOUR OFF TOPIC POSTING

"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
...

Thank you for your reply, Sanjaya..

That was my approach for the first month or two. I became very
irritated once I figured out that quite of few of these morons were
changing their Identities to get around kill filters. I manage to link
one sot to about 15 identities in one week or two. I've actively
emailed all their ISPs once I deemed their activity merited such
actions. I've had to resort to adding topic filtering too which will
undoubtedly filter out some good postings I'd rather not have
filtered.


73 MJ




On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:10:20 GMT, "Sanjaya"
wrote:


"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
. ..

[snippage]


I have to weed through hundreds of posts of pure "OFF-TOPIC" nonsense
to find relevelant postings. One time, last month, when I pulled down
new headers I think it was 72 of 102 were political postings by one
specific individual up in Canada. The remaining 30 were mostly
political retorts to the sot in Canada. Maybe one or two shortwave
related postings existed. I should haven't to weed through 100+
postings to find one, maybe two shortwave radio postings. That's just
purely wrong.


You're absolutely right. But it's not going to stop.
The other day I got home from work, ran OE and clicked this group.
The status bar said 145 messages not downloaded. When my
killfile and ignored threads filter got done I had 33 mostly on topic
posts to look through. 77% cleanup rate.

It takes a little effort but it's worth it to me. In fact, if so many
people
didn't bother to respond to the off topic posts... well, you get the
picture.
Trolls might go away if no one replies to them, but that's not going to
happen either. I'll just keep filtering and clicking the posts that I'm
interested
in.

STOP OFFTOPIC POSTING

"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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It good to see a smart person in here with a clear mind.

Perhaps you can help all these idiots understand the appropriate
behavior for this newsgroup.


On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:27:54 +0100, Volker Tonn
wrote:



-=jd=- schrieb:



The group name is "Rec.Radio.Shortwave", not
"Rec.Radio.Shortwave.Technical-Aspects-Only"...


There are are plenty of groups specialized to talk on political and
other topics. If you want political, geographical or sexual talk go to
the related group(s)!
Newsgroups are related on themes. And rrs is related on _receiving_ not
on _contetnt_ of transmissions. Period.
It's fine to point out what you're actually hearing on shortwave or
other freqs. But if you want to discuss on non receiving related content
make a follow-up to the related group. Thanks.

Can't stop laughing. OMG!!!

" Radio Flyer" wrote in message
.. .
Abusive, profane post forwarded to

"JuLiE Dxer" wrote in message
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Damn you're stupid.

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 04:42 am, JuLiE Dxer posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM


**
* Is there some odd reason why you are concerned with "JuLIE" and not
* with the other id that's engaged in massive OT bombardment of rrs
* with no shortwave content? Just wonderin'


He wants a date.

"Sanjaya" wrote in message news:wqujd.3513

I'll just keep filtering and clicking the posts that I'm interested in.

Yes, I do the same and get mainly radio related postings only.

Its worth the effort.

Mike

And that's about the only thing I'm saying. It's funny how hated a
person can become for taking that single stand.


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:51:44 +0000, Noel wrote:

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:31:45 -0600, " Radio Flyer"
wrote:

It is outrageous to say that you can discuss the frequency, location,
strength, and language, but it is off topic to discuss what they said on the
broadcast. If that were true, then this group should be called
rec.radio.shortwave.frequencyalerts

When this sort of an argument becomes a blanket excuse for endless
postings on the subject of your presidential election, or on the
never-ending liberal versus conservative debate (or more accurately -
flamefest), then that is what really is outrageous, particularly given
that there are newsgroups for precisely such types of posts.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:04:27 GMT, JuLiE Dxer
wrote:

And that's about the only thing I'm saying. It's funny how hated a
person can become for taking that single stand.


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:51:44 +0000, Noel wrote:

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:31:45 -0600, " Radio Flyer"
wrote:

It is outrageous to say that you can discuss the frequency, location,
strength, and language, but it is off topic to discuss what they said on the
broadcast. If that were true, then this group should be called
rec.radio.shortwave.frequencyalerts

When this sort of an argument becomes a blanket excuse for endless
postings on the subject of your presidential election, or on the
never-ending liberal versus conservative debate (or more accurately -
flamefest), then that is what really is outrageous, particularly given
that there are newsgroups for precisely such types of posts.


That's because there are bullies in this ng.
They'll post whatever they please, and whine about everyone else.

I agree that random postings by political radicals should not be allowed,
but I think that people with a common interest in shortwave should be able
to post off topic in moderation without getting jumped on.


"Dyuob Poltice" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:04:27 GMT, JuLiE Dxer
wrote:

And that's about the only thing I'm saying. It's funny how hated a
person can become for taking that single stand.


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:51:44 +0000, Noel wrote:

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:31:45 -0600, " Radio Flyer"
wrote:

It is outrageous to say that you can discuss the frequency, location,
strength, and language, but it is off topic to discuss what they said on
the
broadcast. If that were true, then this group should be called
rec.radio.shortwave.frequencyalerts

When this sort of an argument becomes a blanket excuse for endless
postings on the subject of your presidential election, or on the
never-ending liberal versus conservative debate (or more accurately -
flamefest), then that is what really is outrageous, particularly given
that there are newsgroups for precisely such types of posts.


That's because there are bullies in this ng.
They'll post whatever they please, and whine about everyone else.

"bug" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:27:10 -0600, " Radio Flyer"
wrote:

I agree that random postings by political radicals should not be allowed,
but I think that people with a common interest in shortwave should be able
to post off topic in moderation without getting jumped on.

Yes, and people like me will have our hand on our filter button.


bug

Fair enough ;)