Re: Emigration from Usenet

On Sat, 27 Jul 2024, Rich wrote:

That's what I thought too, but perhaps he meant that even if you filter
out, the person can just register a new account, change their handle, and
continue?

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You don't need to register a new account to nymshift on USENET anymore.
When USENET accounts went commercial (or free for all) instead of being
tied to one's college/business account it became trivial to post as any
name you like, all from the same account.
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But as most users are unaware of how to do so, most users don't
nymshift, and so killfiles do work.
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The problem is that many people don't want to be bothered with managing
their own personal killfile and would rather that work be offloaded to
"the moderators" (which is mostly what they get on the centralized
forums) so they don't have to bother with it.

Very interesting! I thougt the people/companies who provide usenet
access would have done something against that, so interesting to hear
that they have not.

That does raise the bar though, since it is a bit of a hassle to
register a new account every single time you would like to harass someone.
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As for blocking or killfiling, works great for me.

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Because most folks don't nym-shift on a regular basis.

This is the truth!