You could do it without needing the user/password protection, since would it matter if the trolls could also fail to download their nonsense from it as well as the rest of us?
Again, no need to encourage as such. Those who would like a filtered feed use the alternative NNTP, anyone else stays as they are - they would not bw missing anything except a few dB improvement in signal to noise ;-)
What's with all the paranoia over trolls!? They're not that much of a problem, are they? What one person's troll is could be a useful stimulus for others. Beats me why people get so hung up on trolls! Also, one of the main benefits of Usenet proper is the archiving done by Google going back over several years.
MM
How I managed to get all the way through this post without going mad over the use of "fora" is totally bewildering to me. It's FORUMS!
MM
Absolutely, and what else are they going to scratch? Old hands, like. I think we should all just chill, man!
MM
But he can't read. He's a mouse.
MM
Yes, except that it stagnates. New ideas appear, new answers to the same questions.
In which case they have access to Google Groups.
Not that I'm criticising your site, but it's a bit too much trouble...!
"Mike Mitchell" wrote | "Owain" wrote: | >fora | How I managed to get all the way through this post without | going mad over the use of "fora" is totally bewildering | to me. It's FORUMS!
A subset of the second declension ends in -um in the singular and in -a in the plural.
Owain
I was not talking about the (sometimes useful, mostly entertaining in a morbid sort of way) input from the likes of IMM/Adam/NEWS, so much as the cross posted stuff...
You seem to be missing my point - using an NNTP filter would mean you are still using usenet, still getting all the benefits, and still getting the archiving. It would simply allow you to eliminate posts you don't want cluttering your newsreader. Not so much of a problem with the current level of spam posts - but more of an issue when you get to the genuine posts being in the minority.
A newsreader with good killfiling capabilities would do most of the same
- however the filter would work with any newsreader.
"Owain" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nnrp-t71-03.news.uk.clara.net:
"The situation for words of Latin and Greek origin which have kept their inflected nominative endings is complex...
...with 2 plurals,the classical for formal contexts and specialised meanings, the vernacular for informal and general use....
...referendum with referenda and referendums.."
(Oxford Companion to the English Language)
So if newsgroups are what I think they are
Its FORUMS!
mike r
No, newsgroups are newsgroups. Forums are other things such as web based discussion areas.
All the RFCs call them newsgroups, they have always been called newsgroups, the protocol is Network NEWS Transmission Protocol....
But that's a different argument!
'Course it is! Also, it's REFERENDUMS, not referenda.
MM
"Mike Mitchell" wrote | 'Course it is! Also, it's REFERENDUMS, not referenda.
And agendums instead of agenda.
I'll allow you chrysanthemums :-)
Owain
"Owain" wrote in news:1081889990.10170.0 @nnrp-t71-01.news.uk.clara.net:
Agendum is the singular' and has *not* kept it's inflected nominative form, so has been reclassified as agenda (English singular), so the plural is agendas even (prolly!) in formal and classical use.
(Still referring to Oxford Companion to etc)
mike r
But data, not datums!
Recta?
.andy
To email, substitute .nospam with .gl
appreciate it if people could let me know of upcoming events as and when they appear and I'll be happy to add them.
PoP
Alba? (album/alba)
Belgia? (Belgium/Belgia - there are two: Wallonia and Flanders)
Ta? (tum/ta)
A? (um/a)
MM
3rd World War about to start. Much scope for DIY later.
MM
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