Termination

On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:25:40 -0400, No name wrote in

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My kill file for this group grows and grows. It seems like such a good idea, homeowners sharing their experience fixing things.

A few minutes here shows exactly why we can't have nice things.

Can't blame you one bit.

It's true we do have spammers, and trolls. We also have some folks who provide good help. Maggie got her toilet de-limed, and I got my customer's garage door weather stripping done. All, in large part, due to very kind people.

Overall, I do find value in reading this list.

Maybe you should have contributed more and bitched less. Personally, I don't see many questions that go unanswered, so I really don't know what you're talking about. As far as the noise ratio, it's like hanging out at the hardware store. When there's nothing to do or answer, we shoot the s*it. But you will never see this because you've left the building and thats your loss, because there is still lots of good info here and not dying anytime soon Bub bye

Crap, you beat me to the punch. If this group is so distasteful to him maybe it's him and not the group.

It's true that, more and more, when I open the group mostly all that I see are serial repetitive moronic posts by one or two posters. Then, buried in there somewhere are the valid questions and helpful replies.

A while back, I tried to get info on newsreaders that would let me do some kind of killfile system to just filter them out. But, I never was able to find such a newsreader or, for the ones that I did find, I honestly couldn't figure out how to set them up and use them.

Right now, I am using Outlook Express as a newsreader and I just now tried setting message filter rules to filter out the one or two complete morons. I'll have to see how that works.

P.S. to the OP, No Name:

What newsreader are you using? Have you tried or considered doing a filter or killfile approach with it to block out the main village idiot(s)?

I am trying that now and will see what happens.

Let me know how that works. :-|

The phrase "Moving on" is what I have to question. What are you moving on to? Let me guess, "Facebook".

I agree there is a lot of trash on this newsgroup, and I have set a lot of filters. But if you think alt.home.repair is full of rubbish, just wait till you get on Facebook. From my very brief encounter with FB, (which lasted about 3 weeks before I deleted the account), I found 99% of the stuff on FB to be complete rubbish.

As far as I'm concerned, the newsgroups are the only thing left on the internet which have any value. About the only other thing I still do online is send/receive private email. Otherwise the internet is just useless crap, especially the WWW.

Thunderbird might suit you. SeaMonkey also has a newsreader function. Both free and from Mozilla.

Wikipedia - endless education

Google News (or some other aggregator) - just to know what's going on.

Slashdot - sometimes interesting tech stuff

Fark - fun stories

YouTube is great for instruction. Finally getting my flip turn (swimming) to look half way decent.

All kinds of shopping.

Usenet - discussion (or just plain disgust with the human condition)

Thank you for taking the time to review my posts and offer valuable criticism.

Thank you for showing the sensitivity not to embarrass me by naming me. I know who you mean, and that's what counts.

Thank you for letting me know why I'm being terminated. Usually, when I find that I'm no longer allowed to post to a group, I'm left to wonder who terminated me and why.

I've used FTP years ago, when size restrictions on email were tight.

Nowadays, people use cloud services like Google Drive. OS X comes with 5 GB of cloud availability, but I've never looked into it because I haven't had anything big to send.

Wrong thread! What a fool! Now I'll be terminated for sure!

It's not the newsgroup, it's YOUR LIFE that will be terminated.

In 5 minutes your life will be terminated, and snuffed out forever. It will begin when you cant breathe and your brain matter will begin to drain out of your ears......... Then there will be a bright flash of light when your power transformer blows up........ The scope will just show a straight line with no spikes or valleys. The audio from your television will become nothing but an endless hum......

It's kind of like getting really drunk or stoned, But far more permanent!

I disagree.

As long as there is some useful info, it is well worth sticking with this group.

Andy

Yes, it's a mix, but still worthwhile. Even those who like to add a bit of useless fluff are often the most knowledgeable on a subject. There is reall y only one person who has nothing to contribute except off-color comments. We can excuse him because I suspect he has mental health issues relating to a deep need for attention. Most likely he doesn't have a family support sy stem so we can only hope he is able to get therapy.

Wow! I think it worked!

I applied the filters and I no longer see Bozo Boy (you know who) and his symbiotic alter ego that replies to almost every one of his posts. The newsgroup screen now looks "normal" with all of the serial repetitive moronic posts no longer taking up the whole screen. I should have figured out how to do that a long time ago.