Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious arguements going on?

On 9/03/2025 5:05 am, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:

On 8/03/2025 6:57 am, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

 

Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and
religious arguments going on? I just want to come in here and
read about the good doctor. not all the constant in bickering
and asinine shit. thankz in advance. ME

 

I subscribe to this newsgroup, then usually junk all articles
without reading, to de-yadify the rest of Usenet and because this
newsgroup's regulars spend more time troll feeding yads than
posting on Doctor Who. This is one of Usenet's worst newsgroups
for off-topic crap.

 

Of course, if you truly wanted to read on topic content, you
yourself would have to regularly post quite a bit of it yourself
and hope on topic threads would result. As you're unwilling to do
that yourself, then you contribute to the problem you've
identified.

 

Since I personally despise all of this newsgroup's regulars for
the nonstop troll feeding of yads (and previously, of Tim), I
will continue to subscribe simply as a method of cleaning out the
unwanted crossposts from newsgroups I care about.

 

How in Hell does your reading garbage HERE stop that same garbage
being cross-posted elsewhere??

 It's a magical feature of my newsreader. I enter a newsgroup. I am presented with an index screen of unread articles. The screen is presented threaded, and I see authors' names. If theres anything to read, which is almost never, I read it.

Good.

Then I execute one of the commands to junk articles, which also marks
the article as read

Yeap .... but the impression I got reading your post was that you
thought it was also be "Marked as Read" in EVERYBODY elses Newsreader.

in any newsgroups it was crossposted into.

I would like my SeaMonkey Suite to have this ability. Netscape Suite and/or Mozilla Suite (on which SeaMonkey Suite is based) used to have that ability but, for some reason or other, that function was removed in SeaMonkey Suite.

I can de-yadify without reading an article, plus I get rid of all
the asshole troll feeders who refuse to cut yad's crossposts.
 It's faster to mark articles as read that are total off-topic shit
in newsgroups I don't want to read than in groups that I do want to
read.

???
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Daniel70