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Michael Morrow
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I added 6 assholes to my blocksender list and now when I read this newsgroup
it is interesting and on the subject.
Mike M
it is interesting and on the subject.
Mike M
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Toilet Fish
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"Michael Morrow" <mmorrow476@highstream.net> wrote in message
news:vpak1bhe7qt5d0@corp.supernews.com...
started with Baphomet asking a perfectly legitimate question about proper
usenet posting netiquette (I'm paraphrasing). It got a lively response with
many differing but none the less legitimate and interesting points of view
as to whether top, bottom, or interspersed posting was preferable and why.
Then Dark Matter jumped in with his usual abusive, foul mouthed and largely
irrelevant posts consisting of little other than single syllable name
calling. I guess the war started pretty much at that point.
John Fortier, in an related but separate thread, suggested a "minimally
moderated newsgroup" that would help alleviate this kind of usenet abuse.
This also generated a lot of interesting discussion, again with widely
differing viewpoints.
John Fields jumped into the fray also using copious amounts of foul language
which ill served his arguements against even a minimally moderated group.
Fields, who apparently has a reputation for bully boy tactics on various
usenet groups, was largely causative of the flame war's escalation into
unchartered territory.
Hopefully, out of this will come some rational discourse and understandings.
It is your right, of course, not to participate and even to put on blinders
(using the blocked sender list) and pretend that this is not happening but
it ill serves both the group and yourself because you miss many of their
more legitmate posts and expertise of many years in the field of electronic
design.
As they say about about Lotto and it is equally applicable here, "you've got
to be in it to win it".
news:vpak1bhe7qt5d0@corp.supernews.com...
I'm not sure you understand the genesis of this particular flame war. ItI added 6 assholes to my blocksender list and now when I read this
newsgroup
it is interesting and on the subject.
Mike M
started with Baphomet asking a perfectly legitimate question about proper
usenet posting netiquette (I'm paraphrasing). It got a lively response with
many differing but none the less legitimate and interesting points of view
as to whether top, bottom, or interspersed posting was preferable and why.
Then Dark Matter jumped in with his usual abusive, foul mouthed and largely
irrelevant posts consisting of little other than single syllable name
calling. I guess the war started pretty much at that point.
John Fortier, in an related but separate thread, suggested a "minimally
moderated newsgroup" that would help alleviate this kind of usenet abuse.
This also generated a lot of interesting discussion, again with widely
differing viewpoints.
John Fields jumped into the fray also using copious amounts of foul language
which ill served his arguements against even a minimally moderated group.
Fields, who apparently has a reputation for bully boy tactics on various
usenet groups, was largely causative of the flame war's escalation into
unchartered territory.
Hopefully, out of this will come some rational discourse and understandings.
It is your right, of course, not to participate and even to put on blinders
(using the blocked sender list) and pretend that this is not happening but
it ill serves both the group and yourself because you miss many of their
more legitmate posts and expertise of many years in the field of electronic
design.
As they say about about Lotto and it is equally applicable here, "you've got
to be in it to win it".
C
Chaos Master
Guest
In article <vpar5j476mgs2d@corp.supernews.com>, toiletfish@toiletfish.org
says...
Just deleted the ~100 messages from the trolls. I think it freed over 50kb HD
space.
--
'You receive a scroll of signature. It says:'
Chaos MasterŽ - Posting from Porto Alegre - Brazil.
E-mail address for NEWS: fusca1500_br <at> yahoo.com. Change obvious.
Replies to the group unless absolutely needed(e.g. attachments).
says...
[snip the history of trolls]"Michael Morrow" <mmorrow476@highstream.net> wrote in message
news:vpak1bhe7qt5d0@corp.supernews.com...
I added 6 assholes to my blocksender list and now when I read this
newsgroup
it is interesting and on the subject.
Mike M
I'm not sure you understand the genesis of this particular flame war. It
started with Baphomet asking a perfectly legitimate question about proper
usenet posting netiquette (I'm paraphrasing). It got a lively response with
many differing but none the less legitimate and interesting points of view
as to whether top, bottom, or interspersed posting was preferable and why.
Just deleted the ~100 messages from the trolls. I think it freed over 50kb HD
space.
--
'You receive a scroll of signature. It says:'
Chaos MasterŽ - Posting from Porto Alegre - Brazil.
E-mail address for NEWS: fusca1500_br <at> yahoo.com. Change obvious.
Replies to the group unless absolutely needed(e.g. attachments).