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Re: Stop with the [News] postings already!!!

  • Subject: Re: Stop with the [News] postings already!!!
  • From: "nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 18 Aug 2006 00:01:08 -0700
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Sean Inglis wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:02:37 +0200, Hadron Quark wrote:
>
> > John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> mlw wrote:
> >>> I know you probably mean well, but it is behaving more like spam than actual
> >>> advocacy. It is getting in the way of seeing/finding discussions. If
> >>> you feel compelled to post [News] could you batch all your stories
> >>> in one
> >>> or two messages a day?
> >>
> >> I disagreed.   Roy's "news syn flood" seems to have flushed the more
> >> egregious trolling out of COLA.
> >>
> >> That said, after eating all the snakes, we may have left ourselves
> >> with too many mongooses.
> >
> > What are you talking about? You are suggesting that his volumnious
> > spamming is good to get rid of trolls? How *on earth* do you make that
> > ridiculous assumption?
>
> 1) He *has* god rid of trolls. Anyone with a newsreader and a pair of eyes
> can see that.
>
> 2) It *isn't* spam, the clue's in the newsgroup name. And it's posted in a
> way that makes filtering out his articles trivial for anyone who's
> *really* interested in doing so.

My sentiments exactly.  Seems to me HQ wasn't here before Roy started
posting. The trolls made this ng a miserable experience.


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