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Re: Junk Filers, was: Say Susan
de »Q« 06/16/2006 11:36
"Ziggy Zagnuts" <yes@positively4thstreet.com> wrote in
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> "»Q«" <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote in message
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>> "Ziggy Zagnuts" <yes@positively4thstreet.com> wrote in
>> <news:4492bea3$0$3635$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>:
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>>> "John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
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>>>> I have to filter John Jay Smith out myself because he insists
>>>> on top posting. He's not a bad person and his posts are
>>>> generally on topic, but having to deal with top posting in a
>>>> group where most people bottom post is simply not worth the
>>>> effort to me.
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>>> I find this attitude awe-inspiringly mind numbing. 'Good
>>> person, on topic'...his sin is where he puts his comments?
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>> I find it mind-numbing that you think of filtering in terms of
>> punishment for sins.
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> I don't. My point is John (and others) do.
He explicity noted that he was /not/ doing that. He explicitly said he
was filtering to reduce the effort he has to go through.
>>> I sure hope if you have a problem and ask a question of the
>>> group that the person who answers correctly doesn't top post it.
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>> Generally, that's not much of a concern.
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> A non-answer.
There wasn't a question.
>> It's not too hard to filter people, but see their posts which are
>> direct replies to you.
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> Depending on your newsreader, no?
Sure.
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