Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:36:17 -0500 Message-ID: <578D3DDA.25C2@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:36:42 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics References: <6ca66761-95e3-4e22-9ab5-28c9fdf409d4@googlegroups.com> <9f5a803d-ac9e-4aab-ae7a-276d56fcaaac@googlegroups.com> <578D377B.775@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 37 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-RgfAKqDqk/jvz3TSzrgldUW65G8BdBMZUj5FcieEcqTBKlTBsf3uyXp9LFkPTrizI8qeVf077YiJBNa!MVQJC7RpsuVJ+oYVUTtQgiWS7oy1aGFzHKLY6XudzhfaQ+eIt/OEw1XvAOFIg9CUCAZFQB+qqA7z!NqvIN4tVFZo= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2554 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:589810 The Starmaker wrote: > > Odd Bodkin wrote: > > > > On 7/18/2016 2:36 PM, Archimedes Plutonium wrote: > > > Took me 2 minutes to knock out a block of 12 threads by the front page hog McGinn. > > > Probably the republican convention is making the hog more aggressive. > > > > > > > While I applaud your reducing your noise level from McGinn, I just want > > to make two comments. > > > > 1. With two more minutes of your time, you could download and install a > > non-Google usenet reader like Mozilla Thunderbird. Then in that new > > software, you could do like I've done, which is to tag his name as Junk, > > and then I never have to see or mark as spam any post from him ever again. > > Then, one day you wake up and exclaim..."THERE'S NO ONE HERE IN THIS > NEWSGROUP!!!" > > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ufl6u > > the mind over matter bees... > > and then youy have the ones that 'pretend' to use killfiles... > > the hypocrite bees. > > Do as I say, not as I do bees. Of course there are 'moderated' newsgroups that get rid of the Junk for you...but then eventually...you become the Junk. ...and you're back here again.