Comcast dumping newsgroup access

Ernie & Eythl <ernie&[email protected]> amazed us all with the
following in news:[email protected]:

> Elmo P. Shagnasty answered:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> "Pat Cook" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> We usually
>>> hang out on Yahoo! Groups and message boards, which aren't allowed
>>> to run rampant in a negative manner like some USENET groups are
>>> because they're moderated forums.
>>
>> Ummmm.....check that moderation.
>>
>> Usually it's overly moderated. In other words, most boards are run
>> by idiots with a power complex.
>
> But thats a GOOD thing. It keeps the trolls and assholes OUT!
>

Trolls? Maybe.

Assholes? No- it just creates more.

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"The Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Ernie & Eythl <ernie&[email protected]> amazed us all with the
> following in news:[email protected]:
>
> > Elmo P. Shagnasty answered:
> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> "Pat Cook" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We usually
> >>> hang out on Yahoo! Groups and message boards, which aren't allowed
> >>> to run rampant in a negative manner like some USENET groups are
> >>> because they're moderated forums.
> >>
> >> Ummmm.....check that moderation.
> >>
> >> Usually it's overly moderated. In other words, most boards are run
> >> by idiots with a power complex.
> >
> > But thats a GOOD thing. It keeps the trolls and assholes OUT!
> >
>
> Trolls? Maybe.
>
> Assholes? No- it just creates more.

You got that right because I've seen it happen myself.

Basically, once the assholes on a moderated group jump to the wrong
conclusions there is nothing at all you can do about their **** because the
moderator won't let you do anything.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Pat Cook" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We usually
>> hang out on Yahoo! Groups and message boards, which aren't allowed to run
>> rampant in a negative manner like some USENET groups are because they're
>> moderated forums.
>
> Ummmm.....check that moderation.
>
> Usually it's overly moderated. In other words, most boards are run by
> idiots with a power complex.

Hmmm...my biggest problem with moderators isn't so much that they clean out
spam, it's that they feel the need to "move" threads to different forums
(extremely annoying). OK...so what if it's slightly OT!!! A better option
would be perhaps to _copy_ the thread to another forum (much like many users
do here...replying to the original plus crossposting to another newsgroup).

- anthonyx26

"Pat Cook" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi everyone:
>
> "anthonyx26" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I just received an email from Comcast announcing their end of newsgroup
>> access (offering only a promotional deal through "giganews" as a parting
>> gift).
>>
>> Email from Comcast...
>
> [snip.....]
>
> What does this have to SPRINT PCS????
>
> Am I missing something here?

Hahahaaha...gonna ban me? ;-)

If you read further down in the email, I had proposed an alternate forum at
www.sprintusers.com. While it is a bit annoying with the ads, the actual
user forum content is high quality. Though, I'd be happy to entertain other
venues.

- anthonyx26

> While I don't like the commerical "fluff" advertisements that many web
> based forums have it can be tolerated as long as the volume of
> user--to-user communication is high and is of high quality.
That is part of why UseNet lost its appeal in the early 00s. After the
big tech bust people
realized that it was essentially impossible to "monetize" NNTP. The
tricks "they" came up with such as web based readers that could show
advertising or just spam bombing 50,000 groups at a time were such an
abomination that it killed a lot of the traditional spirit of UseNet.
Google groups and various spam fixes have helped in the long run. Many
groups are now happily chugging along and picking up new regular users
who are able to conversate in a civil manner.

DTC wrote:
> anthonyx26 wrote:
>> Hmmm...my biggest problem with moderators isn't so much that they
>> clean out spam, it's that they feel the need to "move" threads to
>> different forums (extremely annoying).
>
> Reminds me of a post I made in some NG and used a "naughty" word
> commonly heard on TV, well...late night TV movies.
>
> Moderator deleted my post saying it was a family accessible NG.
> I replied that kids that read NG are at least in third grade, and
> mostly likely have already heard, if not used that word.
That is the sad reality...most moderators are self-selected zealots
and control freaks. That one sounds like the sort of controlling X-ian
asswipe
that needs to be chained and dragged behind a pickup truck.

"rabbits77" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> While I don't like the commerical "fluff" advertisements that many web
>> based forums have it can be tolerated as long as the volume of
>> user--to-user communication is high and is of high quality.
> Google groups and various spam fixes have helped in the long run. Many
> groups are now happily chugging along and picking up new regular users
> who are able to conversate in a civil manner.

Whoa..."conversate"...now there's a controversial word! Of course, the
controversy questioning whether it is indeed a word at all.

IMHO, it wreaks of one trying to make him/herself look smarter by making up
some obscure-sounding word...and because no one really knows whether it's an
actual accepted English word, no one calls the person out on it, they just
let it slide. NOTE: From the rest of your verbiage, this doesn't sound
like what you were doing. :-)

- anthonyx26

At 10 Oct 2008 17:57:40 -0400 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> > Many
> > groups are now happily chugging along and picking up new regular users
> > who are able to conversate in a civil manner.
>
> dude....it's "converse". Not "conversate".
>
> People are morons.


And yet you still conversate with us... ;-)

Deprecate instead of conversate ;-)

>>>
"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
In article <[email protected]>, rabbits77 <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Many
> groups are now happily chugging along and picking up new regular users
> who are able to conversate in a civil manner.

dude....it's "converse". Not "conversate".

People are morons.

"conversate"? Are you a relative of GWB? hihi

rabbits77 answered:

> That is the sad reality...most moderators are self-selected zealots
> and control freaks. That one sounds like the sort of controlling X-ian
> asswipe
> that needs to be chained and dragged behind a pickup truck.

And YOU sound JUST like the trolls that get kicked off sites like that.
GOOD RIDANCE you piece of ****. NO ONE wants people like you on them to
begin with. **** OFF. HAHA

anthonyx26 wrote:
> "rabbits77" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> While I don't like the commerical "fluff" advertisements that many
>>> web based forums have it can be tolerated as long as the volume of
>>> user--to-user communication is high and is of high quality.
>> Google groups and various spam fixes have helped in the long run. Many
>> groups are now happily chugging along and picking up new regular users
>> who are able to conversate in a civil manner.
>
> Whoa..."conversate"...now there's a controversial word! Of course, the
> controversy questioning whether it is indeed a word at all.
>
> IMHO, it wreaks of one trying to make him/herself look smarter by making
> up some obscure-sounding word...and because no one really knows whether
> it's an actual accepted English word, no one calls the person out on it,
> they just let it slide. NOTE: From the rest of your verbiage, this
> doesn't sound like what you were doing. :-)
"conversate" is a perfectly fine and acceptable *slang* word.
I feel comfortable using it in a technical news group. Maybe not so much
in a group devoted to english literature, perhaps.
Perhaps the several people that enjoy correcting grammar here can use
those energies someplace where that sort of thing is more appreciated.