The good old/bad old days in R.A.P.

On Apr 4, 11:07*am, " wrote:
On Apr 3, 12:08*pm, a wrote:

New visitors, or older group members, might enjoy clicking on

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...piloting/about

and then click on a month in 2006 or 2007, to look back on a time when
this group actually had some aviation content.

This one appreciates you taking the time marking the threads non
aviation. *Helps glean out the wheat from the chaff. *Thanks!

Join in the effort!

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On Apr 4, 11:07*am, " wrote:
On Apr 3, 12:08*pm, a wrote:

New visitors, or older group members, might enjoy clicking on

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...piloting/about

and then click on a month in 2006 or 2007, to look back on a time when
this group actually had some aviation content.

This one appreciates you taking the time marking the threads non
aviation. *Helps glean out the wheat from the chaff. *Thanks!

Join in the effort!

Disagree. I have yet to see a post that isn't obviously off-topic by simple
inspection of the contents of either the "subject" header or the "from"
header.

So I believe your efforts are, at best, redundant. At worst they may simply
feed into the psychological problems of the perp. He's been posting under
multiple handles from the same x-privat.org account and holding
conversations with himself. That's not exactly the sign of mental stability
or any sort of grip on rational thinking.

Also, I don't see the point of quoting the entire posts.

On Apr 4, 4:17*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:

Disagree. I have yet to see a post that isn't obviously off-topic by simple
inspection of the contents of either the "subject" header or the "from"
header.

Actually Jim for those that use Google Groups, changing the subject
line does help filter out the wheat from the chaff. Unfortunately,
when one replies to a sub message within the thread, it changes the
subject line back.

In another medical group I am participating in, I have been changing
the subject line to spam and with the concerted effort of other
regulars in the group, the troll in that group is now spitting in his
own spam threads. Turning out to be a win win situation as now his
stuff is munged with spammers, we have less initiated threads by him
and he can't get the readership from new visitors that he wants and
needs.via the subject line displayed in Google groups. Without a kill
filter in Google Groups, this effort from other group participants
really has made a huge difference and we really can do a self
moderated filtering system ourselves. We don't even read what the
troll posts, it could be the cried wolf syndrome and be on topic, we
just nail him with changing the subject line and move on with
participation of on topic issues.

Also, I don't see the point of quoting the entire posts.

Agree, in a couple of threads I just did myself, I change the subject
line to non aviation and only left the first line of the poster
posting off topic material. I removed all other cross posted groups
and replied only to this group.

Google groups has it's inherited problems specifically with the
subject line because it's not so obvious with the edit subject link
and also the reply to feature. So existing threads are pretty
difficult to manage especially when they start on topic and then drift
off topic, but new threads that are off topic from get go, very easy
to get control of that subject line.

For this to work, it will take the concerted effort of many to get rid
of the few :-) and it will be a cat and mouse game. With my other
group, the majority has turned the tide. I know this because I looked
on his profile and his postings have reduced by 1/3 in one month we
started and his responses now show frustration. And it will take
persistence as you already indirectly pointed out for this to work.

Am 05.04.2010 00:50, schrieb :

Google groups has it's inherited problems specifically with the
subject line because it's not so obvious with the edit subject link
and also the reply to feature.

So use a real usenet account. :-)
I offered more than once a free usenet account on our newsserver here
(only to regulars, non-spammers, etc.). There is almost no good reason
to use google for anything else than their search engine (and even
bing.com brings similar search results)

#m
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"What would I do with 72 virgins? That's not a reward,
that's a punishment. Give me two seasoned whores any day."
(Billy Connolly)

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Martin Hotze wrote:


So use a real usenet account. :-)
I offered more than once a free usenet account on our newsserver here

Once again, thanks for the account.

Bob

Am 05.04.2010 11:21, schrieb Bob Noel:
In ,
Martin wrote:
So use a real usenet account. :-)
I offered more than once a free usenet account on our newsserver here

Once again, thanks for the account.

not a problem at all, you're welcome. :-)

we try our best to keep the service up and running (it is really low
usage and financially speaking one has to stop the newsfeed, but being a
community guy ...)

and as a next step the access will be IPv6 enabled (native, of course).

Bob

search the archives what to do and how to contact me for a free account.

#m
--
"What would I do with 72 virgins? That's not a reward,
that's a punishment. Give me two seasoned whores any day."
(Billy Connolly)

On Apr 5, 2:25*am, Martin Hotze wrote:

So use a real usenet account. :-)

I wish I could but on some computers I use, I can't install third
party software :-)

With the advent of Gmail and Google groups, I have gotten out of the
specialized programs such as Outlook and newsgroup readers and gone
into cloud computing to some degree.

writes:

With the advent of Gmail and Google groups, I have gotten out of the
specialized programs such as Outlook and newsgroup readers and gone
into cloud computing to some degree.

You're very trusting. Never put anything into the cloud that you wouldn't want
to see on the front page of the New York Times.

On Apr 5, 9:55*am, Mxsmanic wrote:

You're very trusting. Never put anything into the cloud that you wouldn't want
to see on the front page of the New York Times.

With your thought, please pull the plug to your USENET access and turn
your computer off.

Hackers lurk and whatever is on your computer that is accessing to the
internet that you wouldn't want seen on the front page of the New York
Times could be seen.

DUH, what an IDIOT you are.

On Apr 4, 3:37*pm, a wrote:
On Apr 4, 11:07*am, " wrote:

On Apr 3, 12:08*pm, a wrote:

New visitors, or older group members, might enjoy clicking on

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...piloting/about

and then click on a month in 2006 or 2007, to look back on a time when
this group actually had some aviation content.

This one appreciates you taking the time marking the threads non
aviation. *Helps glean out the wheat from the chaff. *Thanks!

Join in the effort!

Gladly and I did a couple just before responding to Jim! There are
some tricky situations we as a group would need to do for this to work
and not add to the problem (responding to off topics via cross posting
and existing threads)

See my response to Jim Logajan.