B Vaughan wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:19:40 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >Ronald Hands wrote:
> >
> >> I just checked and I find I have 22 filters set -- and still
> >> the onslaught of crap is overwhelming.
> >> Time to give up, I guess...
> >
> >Yes, the "this newsgroup" threads get tedious, but I think the newsgroup
> >is working fine...
>
> You and Martin and DFM use it as chat software, what would you know.
> You probably filter out 99% of the newsgroup, and think because you
> can exchange 50 chats with each other in the course of a day, that
> it's a functioning travel newsgroup. As soon as a see a thread that
> looks like this:
>
> David Horne
> Martin
> David Horne
> Martin
> David Horne
> Martin
> David Horne
> Martin
>
> I just kill the whole thread.
> If I want to chat with somebody I use
> Skype.
And when you want to deliver sanctimonious lectures on how to use
Usenet, you post them here.
They're getting _really_ tedious IMO, and it's not as if the history of
your posts here have been entirely r.t.e. related. Maybe some of those
long tedious US politics discussions that took place here a few years
ago frightened all the 'good' posters away? Further, some of the threads
you and I (and others) have engaged in could just as easily be labelled
chat.
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