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- From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
- Subject: Re: Learn to make a kill file
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.144316.18786@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:43:16 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland
- References: <1992Nov17.081616.13238@abo.fi> <1992Nov17.195445.24993@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov17.195445.24993@cs.nott.ac.uk> nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.081616.13238@abo.fi>, abulsari@aton.abo.fi writes:
- >|>
- >|> If you want to avoid reading a person's postings, e.g. mine,
- >|> edit the kill file by typing Ctrl-k and then entering a line
- >|> /Abhay/h:j or /abulsari@aton.abo.fi/h:j
- >|>
- >|> Kill files make life easier for everyone.
- >|>
- >
- >This is simply not true. Kill files are an artifact which have had to be
- >created to deal with people such as yourself. Shouting rhetoric on street
- >corners with the excuse "You can put your hands over your ears if you want",
- >is a good analogy. I don't want to have to use my kill file. It is a
- >necessary evil, not a good thing.
- >
- >In real life, people follow social conventions. However, there are always
- >some people who will carry on talking even if nobody is listening, no matter
- >how many times people tell them to push off.
- >
- >Despite your belief in kill files, there is (was) such a thing as net
- >etiquette. Posting any old rubbish with the words "use the kill file" is
- >a cop-out.
- >
- >If you and Ted moderated your postings, perhaps offering to email people
- >with interesting articles, or at least finding out if anyone wants to read them
- >first, then you might not be flamed so much.
- >
- >Finally, there is such a thing a MONEY. It costs a lot of money to post
- >an article to the world. Doing such a thing which
- >1) Most people don't want to read
- >and
- >2) Generates enormous amounts of pointless followups/flames etc.
- >
- >Is a waste of resources, bandwidth and time (of people reading/killing etc).
- >
- >|> With regards,
- >|>
- >|> Abhay
- >
- >with love and peace to vegetarians everywhere,
- >
- >Neil.
-
- Neil, your feedback here is most appropriate, and your thoughts are
- well articulated.
-
- This past week alone, Abhay posted at least five unsolicited articles on
- environmental issues in rec.food.veg. Each perhaps exceeded 100 lines of
- text. The articles were inappropriate both for their length and their content,
- and since nobody followed up with comments, we can assume there was little
- interest.
-
- Rather than post at sci.environment, talk.environment, and
- talk.politics.animals, Ted and Abhay would rather do their grandstanding
- here in rec.food.veg among a less willing audience.
-
- If the payment for posting these lengthy, unsolicited articles came from
- money out of their own pockets, maybe they'd see matters from our
- point of view.
-
-