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Renaming this group...
I'm rather new to this group... and I can't help thinking this :
"With so many references to this person called Alan Erskine, this group's posts pretty much are pretty much being dominated by this person or about this person. So should this group be renamed to the Alan Erskine Group?" And what's ironic is that it seems to have membes who really are knowledgable about the topic of the group. So.........what went wrong? Just my 2 canadian cents... Rohit |
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Renaming this group...
I was reading in the bathroom when I ran across an item written by
"Rohit Seth" on Sun, 03 Aug 2003 15:13:44 GMT, which said: I'm rather new to this group... and I can't help thinking this : "With so many references to this person called Alan Erskine... Before you make any judgments about Alan, consider that anything written about him by an anonymous author should be given pretty much the same credence as you would give any other anonymous author. Also, Alan has been victimized by a lot of retaliatory forged posts, and can hardly be held responsible for the content of those forgeries. His big sin was in trying to hold an asshole accountable for his claims regarding the Challenger accident. --------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring." |
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Renaming this group...
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:13:44 -0400, Rohit Seth wrote:
I'm rather new to this group... and I can't help thinking this : "With so many references to this person called Alan Erskine, this group's posts pretty much are pretty much being dominated by this person or about this person. So should this group be renamed to the Alan Erskine Group?" And what's ironic is that it seems to have membes who really are knowledgable about the topic of the group. So.........what went wrong? Just my 2 canadian cents... Rohit Set up your newsreader filters to ignore the morons posts. |
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Renaming this group...
I was reading in the bathroom when I ran across an item written by
Fred Garvin on Sat, 09 Aug 2003 08:30:54 -0400, which said: Set up your newsreader filters to ignore the morons posts. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'll again mention that it's also helpful to get a dedicated filtering program. Netscape's own filters are almost worthless, and Agent can still filter only on subject and author; this leaves you helpless against the assholes that like to morph. A program such as nfilter/NewsProxy, therefore, is an almost essential add-on, since its filtering is almost completely open-ended, able to filter on virtually any string in any header. It also supports scoring, for the filtering sophisticate (I'm currently trying to learn this technique). I find that filtering out anything posted to more than two groups cuts out at least 50% of the crap, and Agent's subject-author filters take care of the rest. Just in case, I also have a second filter written specifically for anonymous posts since, in my experience, remailers are used exclusively for trolling and personal attacks. Interestingly, all of the anonymous posts have so far been caught by my crossposting filter, and the remailer filter has thus never been needed. This probably says something about the people who use remailers. BTW, it also probably says something that posts by the *real* Alan Erskine do get through my filters, but the sporgeries written in his name and/or about him do not (I have to go to Google to see what's going on). So far, I've seen no reason to killfile Alan, especially since he appears to have calmed down. I don't agree with him a lot of the time, but honest disagreement is part of the authentic reason for usenet's existence. --------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring." |
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