Re: Why can't we just "reset" Usenet?
[email protected] (Paul W. Schleck)
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups |
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| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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In <[email protected]> D Finnigan <[email protected]> writes: >I question what value Paul Schleck saw in reposting this uninformed or >ignorant material to the newsgroups. Was it to inform the readers here? >Was it to entertain us? Or was it for his own entertainment, to read our >replies for the past several days? A pearl of wisdom from Guy Macon from 2005: "There is a way to influence what gets discussed in a newsgroup that works well, and another way that has never worked no matter how many people have tried it. What works: Posting articles on the topic you wish to see discussed, and participating in the resulting discussion. Using killfiles and filters so that you don't see the articles that you dislike. Never, ever responding to articles that you dislike. What doesn't work: Responding to articles that you dislike, complaining about articles that you dislike, complaining about posters that you dislike, complaining about how terrible everyone else is for not posting what you want them to post." (https://groups.google.com/g/news.groups/c/FUdBxpDF_a4/m/mxxyQbk2rrkJ) -- Paul W. Schleck [email protected]