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Advertising Pat in Arkansas 02-28-2008
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Posted by The Wanderer on February 29, 2008, 9:57 am
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:49:19 -0800, Samantha Hill - take out TRASH to reply
wrote:

> Pat in Arkansas wrote:
>> Do we discourage ads?? I came in and the first 3 posts were all
>> ads.....................I don't like that. Saw another newsgroup
>> completely destroyed by advertising..........I know all the posters
>> meant well and etc............
>
> This is an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, and there is no real way of
> prohibiting anything.

Yes, and that means the trolls and wreckers make occasional forays into the
group. Filtering or the killfile takes care of them.

The ethos amongst the regular posters to this group is that advertising is
positively discouraged. Commercial spammers are unlikely to check if
there's any response to their posts, but we do get the occasional poster
popping up to ask if it's OK to advertise - the answer's no.

--
Richard - The older I get, the better I used to be!

the dot wanderer at tesco dot net


Posted by The Wanderer on February 29, 2008, 2:53 am
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:13:54 -0800 (PST), Pat in Arkansas wrote:

> Do we discourage ads?? I came in and the first 3 posts were all
> ads.....................I don't like that. Saw another newsgroup
> completely destroyed by advertising..........I know all the posters
> meant well and etc............

It's a definite no-no. There have been two or three spam posts in recent
days, most importantly you'll notice no one responds unless it's to
politely, or sometimes not so politely, tell them to go forth and multiply!

You'll also need to consign a few trolls to the kill file - you'll very
quickly learn who! :-(

But.....

There is a very active membership in this NG, so you'll find plenty of
stuff to interest you.

--
Richard - The older I get, the better I used to be!

the dot wanderer at tesco dot net


Posted by Mary Fisher on February 29, 2008, 5:50 am

> Do we discourage ads?? I came in and the first 3 posts were all
> ads.....................I don't like that. Saw another newsgroup
> completely destroyed by advertising..........I know all the posters
> meant well and etc............

You can't stop ads at source but you can block any poster who offends you.

I do that with advertisers.

Mary



Posted by enigma on February 29, 2008, 8:33 am
oups.com:

> Do we discourage ads?? I came in and the first 3 posts
> were all ads.....................I don't like that. Saw
> another newsgroup completely destroyed by
> advertising..........I know all the posters meant well and
> etc............

it's Google destroying Usenet. use your killfile to cut all
crossposts & 98% of the crap from gmail/google disappears.


lee
--
Last night while sitting in my chair
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.

Posted by Lizzy Taylor on February 29, 2008, 10:03 am
Pat in Arkansas wrote:
> Do we discourage ads?? I came in and the first 3 posts were all
> ads.....................I don't like that. Saw another newsgroup
> completely destroyed by advertising..........I know all the posters
> meant well and etc............

I just mark obvious ads as read without even reading them and do same
for certain other posters of absolute tripe - you recognise their
posting style pretty fast, even if they change names to avoid killfiling.

Then I read all the good stuff, and there is lots of it on here.

Lizzy

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