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Tom Shelly, White God wrote: [snip]
My apologies. I'd intended to post my previous message to the flame group only, precisely to avoid the messiness of other newsgroups having to suffer these off-topic crosspostings. I'm afraid I slipped up and posted without removing the other newsgroups from my header. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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Jim wrote:
Could you even imagine a serious response to this question? Actually, I have my suspicions that, in the case of rec.collecting.books, there may be a simple answer. All you're doing is inviting the trolls to go at it (and you) all over again. They're welcome to have a go at me. They won't ruffle me with their views, I'm merely curious as to why they seek to air them here. the racist nonsense, and the political baloney, and all the other off-topic stuff that wastes our time and bandwidth. Yes, I had aimed to cut down on that as much as possible by responding to people in the group they appear to have posted from, and trimming the other groups from the posting list, but I've already slipped up once. The answer to "why" is very simple: because they can Well, but I lurk in and post to a number of other Usenet newsgroups that have far less disturbance of this kind. I can't speak for rec.arts.opera, but - I repeat - I think there may be an identifiable reason in the case of rcb. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:15:09 -0000, "michael adams"
wrote: [snip fore and aft] I wouldn't want to get into an argument as to how you prove someone is a genuine idiot on Usenet or just pretending. So that you may get a very skilful parody Whenever I appear to be an idiot on usenet I'm just pretending. Honest. -- l3mst0r |
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michael adams wrote:
if you're set on winding up liberal types - then searching out a group with "books" in the title seems to make sense. Yes, it quite possibly is nothing more than that. Many of the flame groups perform a cathartic effect, in that they allow people to kick over the traces and react aginst their upbringing. etc. So that these people needn't necessarily be racists Oh, I know. And, conversely, the politically correct aren't necessarily enlightened in any way or even necessarily *not* racist (I've had plenty of experience in this area!). Many people might nevertheless feel that overt racism should be challenged at every opportunity, and especially that it should be made clear that racist nonsense is unwelcome on rec.collecting books. I might have stuck in the odd barb against racism, but my main motivation was curiosity about why this newsgroup gets targeted so much more often than, say, rec.antiques. Nevertheless this can still be achieved by removing the cross-posts before replying. In other words, nothing is really gained by not trimming all the cross posts before replying to people whose views you wish to object to Well, as it turns out I think you're right. If there is any other answer than the one you have given the flame group - and rcb itself - are the only places that I feel I might yet get that answer from. But since I couldn't be sure of that when I set out I included all the newsgroups that the "Redfern burns!" OP posted to because, in principle, any one of them might have been able to shed some light. the sorry position of the Austalian Aborigines* is a reality Yes, I'm well aware of that! -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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On 18 Feb 2004 07:39:32 -0800,
(Proudly Anonymous) wrote: "Mick" wrote in message ... "Sven Olafsson" wrote in message om... (John R. Yamamoto-Wilson) wrote in message . com... Sven Olafsson wrote: Please keep this off-topic posting out of AFN. Thank you for your cooperation. Sorry, cannot comply since (a) it is not off-topic and (b) the cross-posting originates with the OP, who posts here regularly. Once again, if anyone has any ideas why rec.collecting.books gets spillover from here, do let us know. OK mate, I can't stop you trolling, but your post was not on-topic since it contained no flames and did not mention ******s in our peaceful little corner of usenet. Also, it did not contain any content appertaining to Australian rail, law enforcement, swinging golf bats or collecting books in everyone elses'. Who is the OP, anyway? I only saw this about 5 posts in. Come to that, why is it X-posted to our informative and tranquil, non-threatening NG? Sven. PS: My fav book is actually Lord of the Rings. I read it when I was twelve, about 30 years back. The cover is far better than the current editions and evokes mental imagery which is sadly lacking in some of the recent publications. I firmly believe that a cover can make or break a book. As they say about food: the first bite is with the eye. And what relevance has this to aus.rail? Shame on you all for crossposting this BS! This must stop! -- Nothing is Beatle Proof!! |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:02:56 -0000, "michael adams"
wrote: I'm still trying to visualise a typical habituee of alt.karl.malden.nose myself, a cross-post I've seen elsewhere. http://digital.net/~gandalf/meow.txt HTH -- l3mst0r Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. |
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