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From: ghelf on 2 Jun 2010 11:39
I really enjoyed several newsgroups but one by one they have become
contaminated with off topic trash.
I though the moderator was suppose to filter out the trash but perhaps
he/she was just overwhelmed.
Any sugguestions where this AV group will reconstitute itself?
Web based groups just don't have the same dynamics as the newsgroup.

From: JD on 2 Jun 2010 13:45
ghelf wrote:
> I really enjoyed several newsgroups but one by one they have become
> contaminated with off topic trash.
> I though the moderator was suppose to filter out the trash but perhaps
> he/she was just overwhelmed.
> Any sugguestions where this AV group will reconstitute itself?
> Web based groups just don't have the same dynamics as the newsgroup.

This is a non-moderated newsgroup.

Learn to use your kill-file and you can filter out the trash. And be
prepared to continue to update your kill-file since some of the trash
will change it's address.

8-)

--
JD..
From: ghelf on 2 Jun 2010 16:08
For years this newsgroup has been one of the few with almost no spam. I
assumed it was because there was a moderator.
Thanks for informing me that the "alt" designation implys no moderation.

PS:
You are a regular here.
Do you like what has happened to the newsgroup? 90% what has been posted
since 5/18/10 is trash talk.

"ASCII" <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:4c068064.767703(a)EDCBIC...
> ghelf wrote:
>>I really enjoyed several newsgroups but one by one they have become
>>contaminated with off topic trash.
>>I though the moderator was suppose to filter out the trash but perhaps
>>he/she was just overwhelmed.
>>Any sugguestions where this AV group will reconstitute itself?
>>Web based groups just don't have the same dynamics as the newsgroup.
>
> This is an [alt] hierarchy usenet group and therefore there isn't a
> 'moderator' or net nanny to shield sensitive twits like yourself.
> Maybe you need to grow up, and get used to it.
> ACV needn't concern itself with re-constitution
> as it's not going anywhere else.

From: David Kaye on 2 Jun 2010 16:42
"ghelf" <ghelf(a)sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> wrote:

>I really enjoyed several newsgroups but one by one they have become
>contaminated with off topic trash.

Use killfiles. Of course this doesn't work if you're reading via Google
Groups, which doesn't have killfiles, but if you use a good newsreader you can
select which people you don't want to read anymore.

From: VanguardLH on 3 Jun 2010 23:02
Laura Fredericks wrote:

> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:02:42 -0500, VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote in
> post:
>>[...]If someone replies to me (and for whom I care to read their
>>post by unhiding it) that uses this header, I deliberately disable
>>their attempt to hide their post by quoting ALL of their headers and
>>body in my reply. In other words, they chose to make worthless
>>their reply but I chose to include their entire post in my reply so
>>it DOES get archived! Only if no one replies to them will their
>>post not get [partially] archived.
>
> That means nothing AFTER the OPs post gets deleted off the server,
> because you can easily change/edit/fake the headers and message that
> you're quoting. Similar to the "There, I fixed it for ya!" tag line
> that people use when jokingly changing other people's messages -- but
> WITHOUT the tag line that you've changed their messages.

That's why it is up to YOU to research a poster to determine what kind
of history they have. If they've consistently used the same moniker and
used the same NSP for quite awhile (and you can even track them
consistently using other NSPs for their prior posts) then you case
whether or not they are liars or not. A poster's reputation in Usenet
is something you're stuck with having to research.
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