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John Corliss
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: Would everybody just please grow up? |
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I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the clutter
and debris of messages posted to this group from people who seem to have
nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and trolling which
has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
PLEASE, grow up and stop cluttering this group.
I, and many other people are here to discuss freeware, not who did what
to whom and so on.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! JUST GROW UP or please find someplace else to
waste time and space.
Now that's about all I have to say on this subject. I will NOT respond
to any replies to this post.
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John "sheesh" Corliss BS206. I use nFilter to block all crossposts and
all Google Groups posts because of Googlespam. No ad, cd, commercial,
cripple, demo, dotnet, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares
OR warez for me, please. |
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LouB
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Would everybody just please grow up? |
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John Corliss wrote:
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I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the clutter
and debris of messages posted to this group from people who seem to have
nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and trolling which
has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
PLEASE, grow up and stop cluttering this group.
I, and many other people are here to discuss freeware, not who did what
to whom and so on.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! JUST GROW UP or please find someplace else to
waste time and space.
Now that's about all I have to say on this subject. I will NOT respond
to any replies to this post.
John |
I think it may be hopeless as I see even some of the folks that provide
good info get into flame wars. Very Sad and ruins the group.
I have been handling the problem by simply not opening anything that
does not appear directly on topic.
Lou |
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Me Here
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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LouB wrote:
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John Corliss wrote:
I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the
clutter and debris of messages posted to this group from people who
seem to have nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and
trolling which has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
PLEASE, grow up and stop cluttering this group.
I, and many other people are here to discuss freeware, not who did
what to whom and so on.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! JUST GROW UP or please find someplace else to
waste time and space.
Now that's about all I have to say on this subject. I will NOT respond
to any replies to this post.
John
I think it may be hopeless as I see even some of the folks that provide
good info get into flame wars. Very Sad and ruins the group.
I have been handling the problem by simply not opening anything that
does not appear directly on topic.
Lou
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It wouldn't be so bad if everyone who wanted to discuss/argue points not
related to freeware, just tagged the subject as [OT] so people could
filter out unwanted topics.
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Me Here
Right now, we're all street people on the information highway; we can't
protect our privacy and information; we can't prove who we are; we can't
buy anything. -- Nathan Myrhvold, senior VP of Advanced Technology at MS |
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Richard Steinfeld
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:03 am Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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Me Here wrote:
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It wouldn't be so bad if everyone who wanted to discuss/argue points not
related to freeware, just tagged the subject as [OT] so people could
filter out unwanted topics.
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But, MH, they don't seem inclined to change, so my solution is
essentially the same as John's. I've killfiled various people and topics
(for example, anything involving clothing and wristwatches). I decided
to kill gmail. If I miss any good posts, well, it's still worthwhile
because the good will still outweigh all the time-wasting bad crap. It
makes this NG much more usable for me.
Richard |
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badgolferman
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: {OT} Would everybody just please grow up? |
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John Corliss wrote:
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I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the
clutter and debris of messages posted to this group from people who
seem to have nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and
trolling which has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
PLEASE, grow up and stop cluttering this group.
I, and many other people are here to discuss freeware, not who did
what to whom and so on.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! JUST GROW UP or please find someplace else to
waste time and space.
Now that's about all I have to say on this subject. I will NOT
respond to any replies to this post.
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Such is the nature of unmoderated newsgroups. I have learned to change
my expectations of others and not be controlled by their childishness.
At the moment I am viewing them as a good example of a bad example.
Occassionally I get a chuckle from their outrageous statements.
Since your filters aren't so reliable anymore perhaps you would
consider using the one I find quite good. It's called the "mouse
scroll wheel". |
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Me Here
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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Richard Steinfeld wrote:
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Me Here wrote:
It wouldn't be so bad if everyone who wanted to discuss/argue points
not related to freeware, just tagged the subject as [OT] so people
could filter out unwanted topics.
But, MH, they don't seem inclined to change, so my solution is
essentially the same as John's. I've killfiled various people and topics
(for example, anything involving clothing and wristwatches). I decided
to kill gmail. If I miss any good posts, well, it's still worthwhile
because the good will still outweigh all the time-wasting bad crap. It
makes this NG much more usable for me.
Richard
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Since you're using Thunderbird, you may like to check out NewsProxy.
It's like putting TB on steroids in as far as filtering is concerned.
--
Me Here
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the
Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton
Adult Bookstore. -- George Carlin |
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LouB
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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Me Here wrote:
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Richard Steinfeld wrote:
Me Here wrote:
It wouldn't be so bad if everyone who wanted to discuss/argue points
not related to freeware, just tagged the subject as [OT] so people
could filter out unwanted topics.
But, MH, they don't seem inclined to change, so my solution is
essentially the same as John's. I've killfiled various people and
topics (for example, anything involving clothing and wristwatches). I
decided to kill gmail. If I miss any good posts, well, it's still
worthwhile because the good will still outweigh all the time-wasting
bad crap. It makes this NG much more usable for me.
Richard
Since you're using Thunderbird, you may like to check out NewsProxy.
It's like putting TB on steroids in as far as filtering is concerned.
Thanks |
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hummingbird
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:19:17 -0700 'Richard Steinfeld'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
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Me Here wrote:
It wouldn't be so bad if everyone who wanted to discuss/argue points not
related to freeware, just tagged the subject as [OT] so people could
filter out unwanted topics.
But, MH, they don't seem inclined to change, so my solution is
essentially the same as John's. I've killfiled various people and topics
(for example, anything involving clothing and wristwatches). I decided
to kill gmail. If I miss any good posts, well, it's still worthwhile
because the good will still outweigh all the time-wasting bad crap. It
makes this NG much more usable for me.
Richard
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Everybody to their own. I also found that killfiling you
Mr Steinfeld made this NG more usable.
That was after you made several abusive posts a while back.
Now we see you taking the self-righteous moral high ground.
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"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed,
and third, it is accepted as self-evident"
(Arthur Schopenhauer) |
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s|b
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Would everybody just please grow up? |
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:12:37 -0700, John Corliss wrote:
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And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the clutter
and debris of messages posted to this group from people who seem to have
nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and trolling which
has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
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Like this posting... Agent's filter capabilities need some work, but the
thing I like most (nest to "ignore (sub)thread") is that you can put a
time limit on those filters.
<http://i33.tinypic.com/vhq4hl.jpg>
Don't bother to react; I'm going to click on OK after this and since my
view is set to hide ignored postings I'm following Nike's credo:don't
talk about it, _Just do it!_
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s|b |
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elaich
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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Richard Steinfeld <rgsteinBUTREMOVETHIS@sonicANDTHISTOO.net> wrote in
news:1padnV--OIeEh-bVnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@posted.sonicnet:
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I decided
to kill gmail.
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But killing Gmailers is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater,
because many people use a Gmail addy who are not posting from Google
Groups. Google Groups is where all the spam comes from, and I read
somewhere that they have a new process to control the spam. |
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Ron May
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:59 am Post subject: Re: [OT] Would everybody just please grow up? |
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On 14 Jul 2008 18:32:16 GMT, elaich <x@y.z> wrote:
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Richard Steinfeld <rgsteinBUTREMOVETHIS@sonicANDTHISTOO.net> wrote in
news:1padnV--OIeEh-bVnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@posted.sonicnet:
I decided
to kill gmail.
But killing Gmailers is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater,
because many people use a Gmail addy who are not posting from Google
Groups. Google Groups is where all the spam comes from, and I read
somewhere that they have a new process to control the spam.
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I've lost count of how many times that's been pointed out to the above
poster. I personally gave up after my third attempt to explain didn't
do it. Nice guy, really, but for some reason it's just hard to
convince him that the email domain in the From: address seldom
indicates the news server used.
--
Ron M.
(I filter Googlespam)
alt.comp.freeware information pages:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/Index.php |
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Me Here
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:08 am Post subject: Re: {OT} Would everybody just please grow up? |
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badgolferman wrote:
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John Corliss wrote:
I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the
clutter and debris of messages posted to this group from people who
seem to have nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and
trolling which has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
PLEASE, grow up and stop cluttering this group.
I, and many other people are here to discuss freeware, not who did
what to whom and so on.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! JUST GROW UP or please find someplace else to
waste time and space.
Now that's about all I have to say on this subject. I will NOT
respond to any replies to this post.
Such is the nature of unmoderated newsgroups. I have learned to change
my expectations of others and not be controlled by their childishness.
At the moment I am viewing them as a good example of a bad example.
Occassionally I get a chuckle from their outrageous statements.
Since your filters aren't so reliable anymore perhaps you would
consider using the one I find quite good. It's called the "mouse
scroll wheel".
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ROFL true, but some names I just can't seem to scroll past. It's like
they're calling out to me to respond hehehehe
--
Me Here
The average American attention span is that of a ferret on a double
espresso. -- Dennis Miller, Re: Americans watching television |
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Ron
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Would everybody just please grow up? |
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On Jul 13, 9:12 am, John Corliss <jcorl...@fake.invalid> wrote:
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I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the clutter
and debris of messages posted to this group from people who seem to have
nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and trolling which
has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
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Pot meet kettle. |
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Ari
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Would everybody just please grow up? |
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:12:37 -0700, John Corliss wrote:
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Now that's about all I have to say on this subject. I will NOT respond
to any replies to this post.
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Nothing worse than a reformed asshole who thinks his shit doesn't/never
stank.
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An Explanation Of The Need To Be "Anonymous"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 |
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QV
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Would everybody just please grow up? |
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You say you have all posts from Google Groups filtered out. How do you do
it? I am using Outlook Express.
QV
"Ron" <BigELilE05@msn.com> kirjoitti
viestissä:f1fff91f-c72d-4002-bf6d-6f7df46b95b1@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
On Jul 13, 9:12 am, John Corliss <jcorl...@fake.invalid> wrote:
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I have all posts from Google Groups filtered out, have killed various
bickering threads by pressing the "K" button (I use Thunderbird) and
have killfiled several of the major trouble-makers.
And yet, I still have to waste a tons of time wading through the clutter
and debris of messages posted to this group from people who seem to have
nothing better to do than to post anonymous garbage and trolling which
has nothing to do with FREEWARE.
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Pot meet kettle. |
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