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From: Paul Fuchs on 27 Mar 2010 15:21
Better off feeding the pigeons in the park. Really detracts from the
quality of the newsgroup.

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From: Jolly Roger on 27 Mar 2010 15:59
In article <1jg0nr9.ez7k92wt848wN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> Better off feeding the pigeons in the park. Really detracts from the
> quality of the newsgroup.

What troll?

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From: J.J. O'Shea on 28 Mar 2010 10:58
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:59:34 -0400, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article <jollyroger-33CEA5.14593427032010(a)news.individual.net>):

> In article <1jg0nr9.ez7k92wt848wN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
> pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:
>
>> Better off feeding the pigeons in the park. Really detracts from the
>> quality of the newsgroup.
>
> What troll?
>
>

There was someone using that nym who clearly was a troll and who was using
MSOE 6 to post, marking him as a Windows user, but it seems that he's started
cross-posting to .advocacy and as such is filtered without my having to take
any further action. it's nice when trolls self-filter.

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From: J.J. O'Shea on 28 Mar 2010 10:59
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:21:33 -0400, Paul Fuchs wrote
(in article <1jg0nr9.ez7k92wt848wN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>):

> Better off feeding the pigeons in the park. Really detracts from the
> quality of the newsgroup.
>
>

If you just filter on .advocacy you'll remove 90% of the idiocy.

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From: J.J. O'Shea on 28 Mar 2010 12:25
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:31:12 -0400, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-B710EC.08311228032010(a)nothing.attdns.com>):

> In article <honqrv12ai0(a)news5.newsguy.com>,
> J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote:
>
>>> Better off feeding the pigeons in the park. Really detracts from the
>>> quality of the newsgroup.
>>
>> If you just filter on .advocacy you'll remove 90% of the idiocy.
>
> Is that the reason that 3/4 of the messages here fall into the bit bucket
> on my machine? I haven't checked to see why my kill file has been
> overactive here of late.
>
>

I checked to see what was going on. It appears that there are at least two,
maybe three, monster threads about iPads which are cross-posted to .advocacy.
They have several hundred, possibly as many as a thousand, posts each, and I
never knew they were around until I checked to see all the headers _before_
my killfile kicked in.

In more relevant, non-trolling, iPad news, it seems that those who were going
to wait until iPads actually show up so that they can look at them before
buying, will have to wait a while. Apple seems to have 270,000 pre-orders for
iPads and only had 250,000 available for the first week.

I suspect that one reason for this is that the competition stinks. I was in a
Barnes & Nobles yesterday, and finally got a chance to examine a 'Nook' close
up... and whoever designed it should be shot.

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