Re: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

For those of you who remember the good old days, rec.arts.tv was largely
free of political articles crossposted from other newsgroups till the
antics of a certain resentful actor who didn't have much of a career in
regional theater and used to post via his WebTV device started dragging
them in. Then Ubi the shithead and a few others began dragging in the
political crosspost threads. Pretty soon, some of those who regularly
crossposted political articles began adding rec.arts.tv to the crosspost
as this remained an active newsgroup.

I've tried various tactics in my own newsreader to avoid crossposted
threads. I was killfiling based on newsgroups in the crosspost, but I've
switched to entering newsgroups whose articles I don't want to read
first to junk them, then reading rec.arts.tv. Junking an article (your
newsreader may call it something else) marks the article as read in the
newsgroup being read plus any newsgroup it's crossposted into.

This is how I de-yadified rec.arts.tv by killfiling in that newsgroup
and then junking the rest, and then reading rec.arts.tv.

I just entered the newsgroup without first de-yadifying and junking
crossposts. There were three articles posted by one of our regulars,
and 20 articles in crossposted threads.

Usenet isn't readable without first junking crossposted threads. Gah.

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