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Re: filtering Tramp
de In_Parentheses 05/22/2006 12:40
»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote in
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> "In_Parenthesis" <quoder@demonstrand.um> wrote in
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>> »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote in
>> news:MrQ97CA76720610BitsmeitsQ@QsFQDN.dyndns.org:
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>>> "In_Parenthesis" <quoder@demonstrand.um> wrote in
>>> <news:Xns97CA3F4BFA754QED@195.114.231.57>:
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>>>> I may be missing something too... for the last week Tramp hasn't
>>>> been nameshifting like he did before, he has been posting long
>>>> lists of freeware, or freeware containing sites, with an
>>>> occassional OT inbetween. Which are all "non-troll" and
>>>> absolutely ON-topic... Yet you folks still wanna condemn
>>>> him/her??
>>>
>>> All absolutely on-topic and also occasionally off-topic? Have
>>> you installed everything he's posted in the last week and checked
>>> to see if any of it is adware and/or spyware?
>>
>> Have *you* installed everyting? Really?
>
> Certainly not. But I'm not the one making the claim that he's been
> "absolutely ON-topic" all week.
That's what you get when your thoughts run off with you; you're right I
*do* contradict myself there; now let's see if we can get this straight:
If, in all his posts, in the last week there were 5 or so ad/spywares
then it is much. Now I agree if you would say that these ere off-topic,
however how about all the other posts that *were* on-topic..?
<cut something I agreed to in the previous>
>> I usually pick from the list the programs that interest me, and in
>> some cases programs which raise questions here, but so far I still
>> have to download my first spyware/adware program from Tramp's
>> posts... Luck? I don't know, but I do know that amongst the
>> programs (s)he posted about were some really nice and really
>> freeware ones... Haven't heard you folks about that...
>
> You've heard from plenty of "us folks" about that -- there are
> several people who have pointed out that much of what he posts is
> good freeware, and thanked him for it.
Unfortunately "you folks" :p tend to go under in the complaints about his
posting... BTW: "Folks" wasn't meant as an insult of any kind here... I
hope you believe me in that!
>>> He's posted ad/spyware here for years, and he's recently said
>>> that he does it intentionally (to annoy). If he's gone a week
>>> without doing it, great.
>>
>> And so do others occassionally, do you want to 'fry' them as well?
>
> Fry? No. It's helpful to point out when something's spyware, and
> that usually happens. I'm not sure why you'd want such warnings to
> stop.
By all means... not at all, but the impression I get is, that the
reaction is a bit more beefed up when Tramp makes such as post as when,
for instance, Q or IP make such a post...
>> Could be getting kinda lonely in here in a few years time ;-)
>
> I doubt it. When honest posters accidentally post non-freeware and
> have it pointed out, they usually say they're sorry for the mistake
> and continue to hang around as contributors. OTOH, if the ones
> intentionally posting it leave, I don't think we'd feel the "loss".
Tried to be funny there; it missed you, I guess. But when these
'contributors' only came to post that junk... I agree completely, let
there be no doubt about that!
>>>> Along the same line I could start a topic now how to
>>>> automatically kill this thread... what on Earth has this whole
>>>> thread to do with Freeware, folks???
>>>
>>> Add to score file » kill entire thread
>>
>> I wrote "I could", Q... That is not the same as "I will"!
>
> You are not the only one reading the thread. Some, rather than
> ironically complaining about complaints, my want to quit reading it.
I think that after the whole discussion, those who want to KF this
thread, or me, know how to do that by now. I took it as a reply to the
paragraph above it....
Uhm... do I read in that last paragraph that I shouldn't have
complained?? I sure hope not!!!
>>>> Leave him/her alone, ignore his/her posts if you don't like 'em,
>>>
>>> Ignore the warnings that he intentionally posts ad/spyware if you
>>> don't like 'em.
>>
>> Like you guys ignore Tramp?
>
> We don't ignore him. I was just seeing how you'd react to your own
> advice being applied to you.
Uhm, I think you were applying your own advise to yourself, Q; but if you
want to ignore me in future... be my guest; you know the "K"-key in Xnews
>> Leave him/her alone
> I don't think Tramp minds when people point out that he posts adware
> intentionally; he's pointed it out himself. I'm still not sure why
> you feel so strongly that it shouldn't be pointed out or why you
> think of it as 'frying'.
There is quite a difference between "pointing out", and a whole NG
falling over someone because of his/her posting habits in my dictionary,
Q. I am trying to point out something to you, just as you are trying to
do the same to me... no hard feelings, no curses, no kill file actions
(at least not that I'm aware of <grin>)
However, before we start one of those lengthy threads I hate so much, I
wills stop. Perhaps there are questions about software, or there is
something to report about freeware, instead of posting habits!
Please note that I changed the nym; this will be the last nym-shift on
this end... and it was not to avoid kill-filters ;-)
--
Jay
(IP)