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Am I the only user of this group who does not appreciate the endless
posting about the multi-conference being held in Las Vegas this
summer? They seem to be having a couple of dozen conferences all in
the same place on the same day. Sounds a little odd to me. Wouldn't
it make more sense to have one conference that covers all the topics?
I guess if they did that they couldn't post every other day without it
being obvious. Instead the advertise each of the two dozen
conferences once a month.

BTW, who wants to go to Las Vegas in July??? If they want people to
come, why didn't they pick a more seasonable time of year.... oh yeah,
it would cost them more!

At least the deadline for the call for papers is close at hand. Maybe
then the advertising will slack off.

Rick
 
On 3/20/2011 11:37 AM, rickman wrote:
Am I the only user of this group who does not appreciate the endless
posting about the multi-conference being held in Las Vegas this
summer? They seem to be having a couple of dozen conferences all in
the same place on the same day. Sounds a little odd to me. Wouldn't
it make more sense to have one conference that covers all the topics?
I guess if they did that they couldn't post every other day without it
being obvious. Instead the advertise each of the two dozen
conferences once a month.

Rick
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You may "kill file" those messages. Check this option with your news reader.
If you are using Google Groups there's no hope (I'm sorry).

Al
 
On Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:34:14 PM UTC-4, Alessandro Basili wrote:
On 3/20/2011 11:37 AM, rickman wrote:
Am I the only user of this group who does not appreciate the endless
posting about the multi-conference being held in Las Vegas this
summer? They seem to be having a couple of dozen conferences all in
the same place on the same day. Sounds a little odd to me. Wouldn't
it make more sense to have one conference that covers all the topics?
I guess if they did that they couldn't post every other day without it
being obvious. Instead the advertise each of the two dozen
conferences once a month.

Rick

You may "kill file" those messages. Check this option with your news reader.
If you are using Google Groups there's no hope (I'm sorry).

Al
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Actually I'm using Google Groups and those messages
are already hidden. I guess I have Rick to thank for
that.

-- Gabor
 
On Mar 21, 10:02 pm, Gabor Sz <ga...@alacron.com> wrote:
On Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:34:14 PM UTC-4, Alessandro Basili wrote:
On 3/20/2011 11:37 AM, rickman wrote:
Am I the only user of this group who does not appreciate the endless
posting about the multi-conference being held in Las Vegas this
summer?  They seem to be having a couple of dozen conferences all in
the same place on the same day.  Sounds a little odd to me.  Wouldn't
it make more sense to have one conference that covers all the topics?
I guess if they did that they couldn't post every other day without it
being obvious.  Instead the advertise each of the two dozen
conferences once a month.

Rick

You may "kill file" those messages. Check this option with your news reader.
If you are using Google Groups there's no hope (I'm sorry).

Al

Actually I'm using Google Groups and those messages
are already hidden.  I guess I have Rick to thank for
that.

-- Gabor
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That's funny, I do flag them as spam, but they never seem to go away.
The other spam tends to disappear. Oh, I am still using the older
style interface. I tried the new groups interface and there all the
spam goes away pretty quickly and anything I flag is gone
immediately.

I wonder why Google can't clear out the spam effectively from their
standard interface while they do with the new interface.

Rick
 
On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:18:56 AM UTC-4, rickman wrote:
On Mar 21, 10:02 pm, Gabor Sz <ga...@alacron.com> wrote:
On Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:34:14 PM UTC-4, Alessandro Basili wrote:
On 3/20/2011 11:37 AM, rickman wrote:
Am I the only user of this group who does not appreciate the endless
posting about the multi-conference being held in Las Vegas this
summer?  They seem to be having a couple of dozen conferences all in
the same place on the same day.  Sounds a little odd to me.  Wouldn't
it make more sense to have one conference that covers all the topics?
I guess if they did that they couldn't post every other day without it
being obvious.  Instead the advertise each of the two dozen
conferences once a month.

Rick

You may "kill file" those messages. Check this option with your news reader.
If you are using Google Groups there's no hope (I'm sorry).

Al

Actually I'm using Google Groups and those messages
are already hidden.  I guess I have Rick to thank for
that.

-- Gabor

That's funny, I do flag them as spam, but they never seem to go away.
The other spam tends to disappear. Oh, I am still using the older
style interface. I tried the new groups interface and there all the
spam goes away pretty quickly and anything I flag is gone
immediately.

I wonder why Google can't clear out the spam effectively from their
standard interface while they do with the new interface.

Rick
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Well they don't really go away. They're just "hidden"
in plain sight. Still a bit less annoying that seeing
the bold uppercase thread titles...

-- Gabor
 
On 3/23/2011 2:28 PM, Gabor Sz wrote:
On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:18:56 AM UTC-4, rickman wrote:
On Mar 21, 10:02 pm, Gabor Sz <ga...@alacron.com> wrote:
[snip]

That's funny, I do flag them as spam, but they never seem to go away.
The other spam tends to disappear. Oh, I am still using the older
style interface. I tried the new groups interface and there all the
spam goes away pretty quickly and anything I flag is gone
immediately.

I wonder why Google can't clear out the spam effectively from their
standard interface while they do with the new interface.

Rick

Well they don't really go away. They're just "hidden"
in plain sight. Still a bit less annoying that seeing
the bold uppercase thread titles...

-- Gabor
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FYI there is an interesting article with a tentative explanation of why
GG does not work so effectively on SPAM:

http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/

I disagree with the claim that GG is dead, but I believe GG hit the
usenet community really bad, giving a false impression to newbies about
what is a newsgroup at large.

You may also read "current usenet spam threshold and guidelines"
(<news:spam-faq.20110320070418$6b71@news.killfile.org>), which gives you
an idea of how the newsgroup administrators deal with the spam.

Given the BI of the post the OP was complaining about, there's no chance
any newsgroup, nor GG may flag that post as spam. Nevertheless with your
newsreader you may easily "kill file" it.

Al

p.s.: Gabor if you find the time please read the "Common questions about
using newsgroups" (<news:1jybfyz.10nomajcvi4weN%nnq-board@anta.net>),
especially Q6 and the related A6
 
On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:30:00 PM UTC-4, Alessandro Basili wrote:

[snip]

p.s.: Gabor if you find the time please read the "Common questions about
using newsgroups" (<news:1jybfyz.10nom...@anta.net>),
especially Q6 and the related A6
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I suppose if I used a newsreader instead of Google Groups,
then I could find the topic you posted the "link" to.

-- Gabor
 
I suppose if I used a newsreader instead of Google Groups,
then I could find the topic you posted the "link" to.
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I use Outlook Express to read the news and also Google Groups via
news.eternal-september.org. Registration is easy, I see no spam and also
threaded messages is a huge advantage instead of web interface.

Tomas D.
 
scrts wrote:
I suppose if I used a newsreader instead of Google Groups,
then I could find the topic you posted the "link" to.

I use Outlook Express to read the news and also Google Groups via
news.eternal-september.org. Registration is easy, I see no spam and also
threaded messages is a huge advantage instead of web interface.

Tomas D.
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O.K. I'll give "Eternal September" a shot. This is posted
via Thunderbird. Still from within TB I can see the links
to <news:blah blah blah> but clicking on them doesn't do
anything. With any luck, though this method doesn't send
the reply to each author in addition to the group...

Regards,
Gabor
 
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