Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: robots in sci.physics Re: How to handle front page hogs like Sergio, McGinn Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 10:10:10 -0700 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 14 Message-ID: <57A619F2.3852@ix.netcom.com> References: <1c13f516-43e7-4f6d-9009-aebcf5f2919b@googlegroups.com> <9a4ee1f7-9023-47dd-934d-deea8110b4cb@googlegroups.com> <93a883af-e2a9-412b-84b6-a102db63eab1@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1470503384 5538 108.219.229.47 (6 Aug 2016 17:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:09:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:592081 Archimedes Plutonium wrote: > > Took me all of 2.5 minutes today to report McGinn under a fake name of solving tornadoes to Google abuse. And a few others. Now the newsgroup sci.physics is mostly a calm sea of blue-- saying -- hidden for reported abuse. > > So, 2 to 5 minutes per day is not much of a price to pay to make sci.physics a normal newsgroup without the spam clutter. I also report as abuse the robots, for they teach or learn nothing. Robots in a science newsgroup is bad, because it is a disservice to the science involved. It is a selfish act of posts where the manhandlers are selfishly trying to see what their robot does, and wasting the time of those truly involved with the science at hand. > > AP welcome to the world of robot science. should robots pay social security tax? --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---