In article , craigm
wrote:

Sanjaya wrote:
To those considering leaving this group...

I ran OE, clicked newsgroup r.r.e status said 89 messages not
downloaded, I got the headers... result: 1 on topic unread message
killfile and subject filters deleted 88 messages... about 99%

I've had other similar results, but never 99 percent... more like
60-80 percent, but the point is... filter and PLONK the crap you
don't want to see


However, for someone visitng the group for the first time this may
not be realistic. A newbie will see politics, name calling, bigotry
and other off topic posts and immeiately write off the group as
worthless.

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This is exactly my point in another thread. Someone new to the news
group will just write it off because of all the nasty off topic
Trolling.

I think this is a valid concern as just today 156 kill filed and 40
articles to read so that's only 20% of the posts being on topic.

Someone new is just going to drop the news group and it explains why no
one new, other than some Trolling sock puppets, have shown up the last
few months.

There are good people here I don't want to kill file but they answer
the Trolls on a daily basis so I found a way to filter their responses
when they answer the Troll posts most of the time but most people are
not that sophisticated with filters.

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