Re: stats 2024 Q1

Blueshirt<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman wrote:

As yads is not going to bake me a cake, there is just no
way to defend anything he does. Always deyadify.

That's why newsreaders have Bozo Bins and filters... ;-)

Killfiling in one newsgroup was less effective than I liked. I
began to subscribe to a number of newsgroups from which
regulars were crossposting into the newsgroup I read. I enter
those newsgroups simply to mark everything as read, which
includes references to crossposts in other newsgroups. To

My killfile worked with Tim! Then Google decided to take over
and do the job properly.

Tim was prevented from crossposting by Google Groups; nothing to do with
what I'm talking about.

To deyadify, I mark everything in rec.arts.drwho as read, so
I'm junking your articles too.

I know I might have missed something... but, if you mark
everything as read in a newsgroup without actually reading the
posts, why bother subscribing to that group in the first place?!

I am taking action against unwanted articles and unwanted entire threads
being crossposted into a newsgroup that I want to read. Crossposting
harms newsgroups. I junk the crossposted articles in a newsgroup that I
don't want to read first, which updates references to the article in
each newsgroup it was crossposted into. Then when I enter the newsgroup
I want to read, there are no more unwanted crossposts. It was more
effective than killfiling.

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