On Mar 26, 11:49=A0am, "Gerald Oliver Swift"
wrote:
> "d.g.s." wrote in message
>
> news:64tvsuF2dgpfrU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 3/25/2008 2:51 PM Keith Anderson ignored two million years of human
> evolution to write:
>
> > OK, like DFM I think I've had enough of RTE.
>
> Geez, that's a bummer. =A0RTE probably hasn't had enough of the likes of
> you.
>
> > [...] I've had Gr=F6nross (or
> > whatever the . his name is) and that vile piece of filth ScRunge
> > jumping on my neck and telling me I'm out of order. .
>
> scRunge and Markku are both useless pieces of shit, and should be
> either responded to with utmost hostility, or killfiled.
>
> > Basically, I give up.
>
> > So, anybody recommend any other travel newsgroups, moderated or
> > otherwise, with lively and sensible debates about travel in Europe?
>
> I think Lonely Planet's on-line Thorn Tree forum has been mentioned.
> It's utterly bereft of the kind of crap that has come to turn RTE
> into yet another piece of the Usenet cesspool. =A0The death of Usenet
> has been predicted for a while, and the on-line forums, which are
> far better at filtering spam and terminating useless idiots, are
> probably doing their bit to drive a stake into the newsgroups' barely
> beating heart.
>
> Also the forum section inhttp://www.virtualtourist.com/is very good.
>
> It strikes me that the main reason for the demise of RTE is this:-
> All the off-topic crap (from the likes scRunge and Markku) on RTE made it =
a
> very busy NG in terms of traffic.
> This in turn led the spammers to target it with all their junk.
Except that other high-traffic groups like r.t.air and r.t.usa-canada
have relatively little spam compared with r.t.e. I think it's just
luck.
Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore
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