suggestion to Tramp and others..

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Libor Striz

Hello,

I appreciate your effort to inform us about new freeware.
But to keep focus on discussions, not announces,
what about posting sth like "Freeware review by Tramp"
one post daily - sth like Sofotex does ?
And event. other threds for discussing items?
 
Libor Striz said:
Hello,

I appreciate your effort to inform us about new freeware.
But to keep focus on discussions, not announces,
what about posting sth like "Freeware review by Tramp"
one post daily - sth like Sofotex does ?
And event. other threds for discussing items?
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I see no reason why you and/or others cannot initiate discussions on
what they post.
 
Hello,

I appreciate your effort to inform us about new freeware.
But to keep focus on discussions, not announces,
what about posting sth like "Freeware review by Tramp"
one post daily - sth like Sofotex does ?
And event. other threds for discussing items?
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I wholeheartedly agree. As it is now, I just killfile Tramp, Vegard Krog
Petersen, *ProteanThread*, R.L. and Darling Gordon. They all post way too
many, mostly untested and untried, for me to bother sifting thru their
posts. No informed comment with their posts. Usually post after post of
applications from the same website. Often with apologies later because it
wasn't freeware after all.

Maybe a more acceptable, one post per site, with ALL the freeware
available on that site ...... with assurances that it has actually been
checked as FREEWARE.

But then ..... I guess if they actually checked whether the program was
truely freeware, and whether the program was actually WORTH posting about
...... I really think they would have little to post. Seems more like an
ego trip for these posters than anything else.
 
Doc said:
I wholeheartedly agree. As it is now, I just killfile Tramp, Vegard
Krog Petersen, *ProteanThread*, R.L. and Darling Gordon. They all
post way too many, mostly untested and untried, for me to bother
sifting thru their posts. No informed comment with their posts.
Usually post after post of applications from the same website. Often
with apologies later because it wasn't freeware after all.

Maybe a more acceptable, one post per site, with ALL the freeware
available on that site ...... with assurances that it has actually
been checked as FREEWARE.

But then ..... I guess if they actually checked whether the program
was truely freeware, and whether the program was actually WORTH
posting about ..... I really think they would have little to post.
Seems more like an ego trip for these posters than anything else.
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How about them posting it all in a big single thread called 'the flood' or
something, so people who don't like it can just filter out the thread,
rather than killfiling the individuals, as they contribute more to this
newsgroup than just the floody bit.

Rod
 
Doc said:
I wholeheartedly agree. As it is now, I just killfile Tramp, Vegard Krog
Petersen, *ProteanThread*, R.L. and Darling Gordon. They all post way too
many, mostly untested and untried, for me to bother sifting thru their
posts. No informed comment with their posts. Usually post after post of
applications from the same website. Often with apologies later because it
wasn't freeware after all.
Click to expand...

A more interesting approach, which another poster mentioned a while ago,
would be to filter only those posts that do not have a references
header.
It's just a matter of finding out how to do it; I assume NFilter can...
 
Doc said:
I wholeheartedly agree. As it is now, I just killfile Tramp, Vegard Krog
Petersen, *ProteanThread*, R.L. and Darling Gordon.
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16 posts and I got killfiled....
Well, well, you can't please everyone...

regards from vegard
 
A more interesting approach, which another poster mentioned a while
ago, would be to filter only those posts that do not have a references
header.
It's just a matter of finding out how to do it; I assume NFilter
can...
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Good idea Jo, I will see if I can make it work with Xnews.
 
Libor Striz said:
Hello,

I appreciate your effort to inform us about new freeware.
But to keep focus on discussions, not announces,
what about posting sth like "Freeware review by Tramp"
one post daily - sth like Sofotex does ?
And event. other threds for discussing items?
Click to expand...

I don't necessarily agree with the way Tramp posts,
but I think he has the right to do so. This groups is
about freeware, and if he wants to announce freeware
then fine.

If all you want is discussions, then maybe you should
be in alt.comp.freeware.discussions

This is the right group for Tramp to post.

Ibn
 
I don't necessarily agree with the way Tramp posts,
but I think he has the right to do so.
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Maybe a good idea for Tramp and other "list-style posters" would be
to post all those announces under one and the same thread instead of
20-30 separate posts.

Just a thought,
Wald
 
Ibn said:
If all you want is discussions, then maybe you should
be in alt.comp.freeware.discussions
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alt.comp.freeware.discussions and alt.comp.freeware.binaries are not
distributed in the global usenet, only in some small parts of usenet.

For practical purposes these newsgroups do not exist.
 
Maybe a good idea for Tramp and other "list-style posters" would be
to post all those announces under one and the same thread instead of
20-30 separate posts.
Click to expand...

Or maybe include
  • in the subject line, or something similar, so that
    people can filter/score them appropriately.
 
wald said:
Maybe a good idea for Tramp and other "list-style posters" would be
to post all those announces under one and the same thread instead of
20-30 separate posts.
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I would prefer such flood announcements in one big message instead of 20
small ones, then I can mark it read with only one click instead of 20
clicks.

It also makes it easy to filter on size, and I already have a size
filter active.

It would still be easy to read for those who are interested.

If these flood posters used this method it would reduce the number of
massages in this newsgroup considerably, making it all a lot easier to
handle.

If somebody wants to discuss a certain program from such a list he can
change the subject to the special program name.
 
Good idea Jo, I will see if I can make it work with Xnews.
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Score: =-200
From: Tramp
~References: @

Change score to -9999 if you want them hard killed; I prefer to make a
key to hide posts with scores < 0.
 
would be to filter only those posts that do not have a references
header.
It's just a matter of finding out how to do it;
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In Agent it's pretty straightforward -
Author: Tramp and not Subject: {^re:}
 
Good idea Jo, I will see if I can make it work with Xnews.
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I cannot speak for other posters. But perhaps just to help
out with suggestions out here. I usually use words such as
"Author's site" OR "list" as a title if it is a list from the
same author. However, if the author has just one program I
will state out what it does and perhaps the freeware
categories in the tile (e.g., manage files, CD, graphic,
image, movie).

I myself set up Xnews to lower the score of certain words that
I am not interested in: music, graphic, graphic, JPG, burner,
and raise the score what I am interested in: e.g., organizer,
notes, Pdf, browser, firefox). This has indeed served me
quite well and save me a lot of time reading the news.

I will sometimes keep Tramps and others post and mark them
differently, if I think I will be interested in them by
seeeing the title but yet to have time read them. The weekend
is usually the low traffic day of this group so I will pop in
to just go through them quickly.

I hope the suggestions help. I will try to post more
informatively if I can, but it is the fact that no one can
always please everyone.






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R. L. said:
I hope the suggestions help. I will try to post more
informatively if I can, but it is the fact that no one can
always please everyone.
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*EXACTLY*
 
Iain said:
Maybe a good idea for Tramp and other "list-style posters" would be
to post all those announces under one and the same thread instead of
20-30 separate posts.
Click to expand...

Or maybe include
  • in the subject line, or something similar, so
    that people can filter/score them appropriately.
Click to expand...


  • We can make all kinds of suggestions, but the thing is, if they had wanted
    to help they would have done something already. So it seems kind of futile
    to keep asking them to change. In fact, for some of them, the more
    criticism they get, the more they're likely going to continue what they're
    doing.

    Personally, the floods don't bother me that much...they're easy enough for
    me to overlook. But if they did bother me, they are so-so easy to filter
    out.
 
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