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Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics

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On 7/18/2016 2:47 PM, 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.
>

Thunderbird is great, McGinn is gone for good, automatically, each of 
his posts are PLONKED within less than a millisecond of arrival, never 
shown.


> 2. McGinn has long since passed the point of needing validation by
> recognition from others. He now just responds to himself to put himself
> on Google's front page, and this provides all the masturbatory
> self-gratification he needs. Even if his posts were seen by no one else
> but himself, that would be enough.

We are probably his only friends, besides his mom.

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How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 15:52 -0700
  Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-02 23:49 -0500
    Is McGinn clinically obese? Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 15:21 -0700
      Re: Is McGinn clinically obese? Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-03 18:49 -0500
        Re: Is McGinn clinically obese? Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@FakeAddress.com> - 2016-07-03 19:28 -0500
          Re: Is McGinn clinically obese? Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-03 20:41 -0500
            Re: Is McGinn clinically obese? Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@FakeAddress.com> - 2016-07-03 21:06 -0500
      Re: Is McGinn clinically obese? Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 14:36 -0700
        McGinn scourge on sci.physics Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 13:08 -0700
          McGinn scourge on sci.physics Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 12:36 -0700
            Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 14:47 -0500
              Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-18 13:09 -0700
                Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-18 15:31 -0500
                Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-18 13:36 -0700
                Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-18 13:38 -0700
              Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-18 15:29 -0500
                Re: McGinn scourge on sci.physics noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 18:57 -0700
  Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Mike Duffy <mqduffy001@bell.net> - 2016-07-03 01:16 -0400
    Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 22:57 -0700
      Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. Mike Duffy <mqduffy001@bell.net> - 2016-07-03 21:45 -0400
      Re: How to handle the front page hog McGinn et.al. "Anon Y. Mouse" <nobody@home.invalid> - 2016-07-03 22:28 -0400
    el hoggies noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 17:24 -0700

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