...... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that used
to be?

From:	Michael Mendelsohn
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:28:43 +0100

Paul Bennington schrieb:
> ..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
> political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that used
> to be?

I just press K on those threads, which causes my newsreader to mark the
then and future posts as read. If noone from here responds, hopefully
the trolls will stop crossposting here.

Cheers
Michael
--
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend
in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country
and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
-- Ronald Reagan, October 10, 1965

From:	Phil Carmody
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	23 Jan 2005 14:52:46 +0200

"Paul Bennington" writes:

> ..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
> political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that used
> to be?

Recent stuff disappears instantly with the (GNUS) killfiling filter:

("xref"
(":.*:.*:.*:.*:" -1000 nil r)
("alt.religion.wicca" -1000 nil s))

(where r=>regexp, s=>substring)

Netscape-alikes have a #newsgroups rule, IIRC, which can take the place of the top one.

Phil
--
Excerpt from Geoff Bulter's Proscriptive Dictionary:
aaa Don't use this, there's no such word
aaaa Don't use this, there's no such word
aaaaa Don't use this, there's no such word

From:	Prai Jei
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:01:55 +0000

Paul Bennington (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<_SKId.16565$GG1.7600@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>:

> ..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
> political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that
> used to be?

It's not you, it's the trolls.
--
Paul Townsend
Pair them off into threes

Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply

From:	Pazqo
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:26:21 GMT

Prai Jei wrote:
> Paul Bennington (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
> <_SKId.16565$GG1.7600@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
>
>>..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
>>political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that
>>used to be?
>
>
> It's not you, it's the trolls.

so, is not only italy...
:-P
have you ever heard about Andrea Sorrentino?
he's a new-ager... and he thinks that every mathematician is convinced
that a pizza over a plate is like an half a pizza over an half a plate...
and he also thinks that 3*0 is 3, since multiplying by zero means "
doesn't multiply at all"...

see you!

pazqo

sorry for my english, i'm still improving it!

From:	Prai Jei
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:35:57 +0000

Pazqo (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
:

> so, is not only italy...
> :-P
> have you ever heard about Andrea Sorrentino?
> he's a new-ager... and he thinks that every mathematician is convinced
> that a pizza over a plate is like an half a pizza over an half a plate...
>
> sorry for my english, i'm still improving it!

You might like to take a look at the "a and an" thread. It's "a" before
"half".
--
Paul Townsend
Pair them off into threes

Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply

From:	Ian Noble
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:23:11 +0000

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:35:57 +0000, Prai Jei

wrote:

>Pazqo (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
>:
>
>> so, is not only italy...
>> :-P
>> have you ever heard about Andrea Sorrentino?
>> he's a new-ager... and he thinks that every mathematician is convinced
>> that a pizza over a plate is like an half a pizza over an half a plate...
>>
>> sorry for my english, i'm still improving it!
>
>You might like to take a look at the "a and an" thread. It's "a" before
>"half".
Or alternately, spend some time over alt.usage.english or
alt.english.usage, where you'll discover that such definitive
statements are invariably over-generalised. It's either.

Cheers - Ian

From:	Paul Bennington
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:06:54 GMT

"Pazqo" wrote in message
news:xRLId.5012$5k5.115058@twister2.libero.it...
>
> sorry for my english, i'm still improving it!

No need to apologise. Its a lot better than my Italian!

Chow :o)

From:	Pazqo
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:38:45 GMT

Paul Bennington wrote:
> "Pazqo" wrote in message
> news:xRLId.5012$5k5.115058@twister2.libero.it...
>
>>sorry for my english, i'm still improving it!
>
>
> No need to apologise. Its a lot better than my Italian!

:-P
i'll never be sure of my english so i keep apologising... :-P

see you!
pazqo

From:	Jens Kruse Andersen
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:15:46 +0100

Paul Bennington wrote:
> ..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
> political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that used
> to be?

The main sinners lately have been "Aunty Kreist"
and "Gactimus" .
They have several times crossposted to many irrelevant groups. Lots of people
(in other groups?) have then posted followups to all the groups.
Don't feed the trolls.

Gactimus' header says:
X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net

Can somebody stop Aunty and Gactimus?

--
Jens Kruse Andersen

From:	Crs smitty
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	23 Jan 2005 17:50:26 GMT

>Message-id:
>
>Paul Bennington wrote:
>> ..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
>> political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that used
>> to be?
>
>The main sinners lately have been "Aunty Kreist"
> and "Gactimus" .
>They have several times crossposted to many irrelevant groups. Lots of people
>(in other groups?) have then posted followups to all the groups.
>Don't feed the trolls.
>
>Gactimus' header says:
>X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net
>
>Can somebody stop Aunty and Gactimus?
>
>--
>Jens Kruse Andersen
>
Well religion is very possibly the biggest puzzle mankind ever faced!
Certainly it is a puzzle how so many people can buy something so unprovable in
the first place and then actually attempt to prove it with their simplistic
phony logic. They are not of puzzle group timbre! I have been answering these
trolls only to see if I can see my post as AOL is currently giving us extremely
poor newsgroup service !! Less than ten percent of posts that they say are
there can be accessed, and there is nothing downloadable anywhere - even in the
binaries newsgroups. It appears they are trying to lose some AOLers - this has
even started rumors in some newsgroups that AOL is dropping newsgroup services.
Time to leave them anyway I guess!

I doubt I'll see post!

Smitty

From:	Paul Bennington
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:12:24 GMT

"Crs smitty" wrote in message
news:20050123125026.06043.00000178@mb-m20.aol.com...
> >Message-id:
>>

> I have been answering these
> trolls only to see if I can see my post as AOL is currently giving us
> extremely
> poor newsgroup service !! Less than ten percent of posts that they say
> are
> there can be accessed, and there is nothing downloadable anywhere - even
> in the
> binaries newsgroups. It appears they are trying to lose some AOLers -
> this has
> even started rumors in some newsgroups that AOL is dropping newsgroup
> services.
> Time to leave them anyway I guess!
>

Better to use one of the test newsgroups to see if you can see posts rather
than feeding the trolls!

From:	Mark Brader
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:34:15 -0000

Paul Bennington:
> ..... or is this newsgroup becoming more of a soap box for religious,
> political, etc discussions instead of the great place for puzzles that used
> to be?

I say again, "/,.*,.*,/HNewsgroups:j".
--
Mark Brader "We can get ideas even from a clever man." ...
Toronto "Yes, I think you can. Even ideas you should
msb@vex.net have had yourselves." -- John Dickson Carr

From:	Paul Bennington
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:07:44 GMT

"Mark Brader" wrote in message
news:10v6vd7eft4pd60@corp.supernews.com...
> I say again, "/,.*,.*,/HNewsgroups:j".
> --

That's strange, I have never seen you say that before!

From:	Phil Carmody
Subject:	Re: Is it Just Me....
Date:	23 Jan 2005 16:06:13 +0200

"Paul Bennington" writes:

> "Mark Brader" wrote in message
> news:10v6vd7eft4pd60@corp.supernews.com...
> > I say again, "/,.*,.*,/HNewsgroups:j".
> > --
>
> That's strange, I have never seen you say that before!

Oh, I think he sent it to at least 4 groups, I'm surprised
you didn't see it in one of them.

Phil
--
Excerpt from Geoff Bulter's Proscriptive Dictionary:
aaa Don't use this, there's no such word
aaaa Don't use this, there's no such word
aaaaa Don't use this, there's no such word