Thanks for all the heavy responses ...The programmers told me not to ask a question like this in
usenet!!

How many web based portals have actually bothered to ask for a killfile? How many care do you
think? Fair enough for the suspicion I guess, but you could have factored that into your responses.

Secondly, we run lots of highly moderated on-topic forums with many MILLIONS of users a month.
We've never imported usenet due to the terrible level of aggression. It takes a while to develop a
proper community. It's a shame that some of you have dug in so hard, that typically everything
external has to be *fluff*.

We just wanted to save more nonsense, flaming, aggression & noise from reaching the net. I guess
we could have done what the 1000s of others have done, and not bother to even consult the people
in the groups. Import in bulk, and plaster it all over the net. No thanks.

There can't be many, if any, forums on the net that have bothered to do this… cut us some slack.

On a personal note I am responsible for going through and moderating (by hand) posts from a number
of groups and this is one of the groups on my station . I am actually ‘living’, so to speak 5 years
ago, and have had to delete hundreds of posts by the puppywizard person and other trolls… I have
found your posts informative and well thought out, I've learnt a lot about the subject from the
posts here. I recommended this group as it was on-topic, helpful and mostly pleasant.

Anyway, sorry for any inconvenience.
Peter


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"Mediasetnews" wrote in message
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There can't be many, if any, forums on the net that have bothered to
do this… cut us some slack.

As I said in my previous post, I didn't even see your original post
because my news provider filtered it out. Therefore, all I had to go on
were a couple of sentences quoted by other people. If you're doing
something different (and more useful) than the hundred and one other web
portals that tap into Usenet, then great. Filtering out Howedy is a
public service I can get behind.

On a personal note I am responsible for going through and moderating
(by hand) posts from a number
of groups and this is one of the groups on my station .

I haven't a clue how you're extracting posts. Unless you're importing
them somehow into a newsreader, other people's killfile recipes aren't
going to help you, because the way posts are filtered will vary from one
newreader to another. If you're doing it by hand via something like
Google, then I think you're SOL.

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Mediasetnews wrote:
Thanks for all the heavy responses ...The programmers told
me not to ask a question like this in usenet!!

Always listen to the programmers.
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