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Re: Why the criticism of Roy's [News] articles?

  • Subject: Re: Why the criticism of Roy's [News] articles?
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:28:59 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <brikr3-nl.ln1@dog.did.it> <pan.2006.08.20.22.37.55.586752@zianet.com>
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ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:18:35 +0200, Roy Culley wrote:
> 
> Mostly, because he overdoes it. Four or five "news alerts" per day would
> be tolerable.
> 
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz's [News] posts have really rattled the COLA wintrolls.
>> The personal attacks against him have proved that.
>> 
>> One argument used by some of the trolls is that so few of his posts
>> generate followups and hence nobody appreciates his articles to COLA.
>> 
>> Roy isn't the first person to post links to [News] articles. He just
>> does it more than anyone before him. His [News] articles are a breath
>> of fresh air and have transformed COLA over the past few months.
>> 
>> Almost single handedly Roy has increased the S/N ratio in COLA.
> 
> IMHO he has reduced it to near zero. Most of his bulletins are drivel.
> 

Then you can use a killfile, can't you?  It's very simple, he's made it
as easy as possible, so that you can feed trolls if you want to. 

I find them very useful indeed, something which is echoed by many of the
real advocates on here. 


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| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor.

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