Supporting Sammy the post office cat

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:

There is no way to tell a thread like this is troll-infested from
the subject line. You can't "scroll past" without ignoring the
whole thread (which has had some legitimate articles in it).

Maybe your newsreader is different from mine - I simply scroll past the
signatures of posters I find offensive, then "mark thread read" when
I've seen the posts I want to read.


==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
There is no way to tell a thread like this is troll-infested from
the subject line. You can't "scroll past" without ignoring the
whole thread (which has had some legitimate articles in it).
Maybe your newsreader is different from mine - I simply scroll past the
signatures of posters I find offensive, then "mark thread read" when
I've seen the posts I want to read.

Firstly, I normally read with threads in collapsed view, so I can see
in advance what the subject is but not who's posting each individual
message within the thread. Expanding the thread to get messages listed
individually slows down the process. (This is on MT-NewsWatcher for
the Mac, but other newsreaders work the same way, starting with "trn"
for Unix back in the 1980s).

Secondly, I don't find your posts in general offensive, just the ones
where you repeat what trolls have written. If I had a general problem
with your posts I'd have killfiled you already. I would rather not do
that.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts