Re:"GO FRIDGE A REFRIGERATOR"

From: John Miller (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:47:11 GMT

JURB6006 wrote:
> This is a newsgroup. I have no idea who runs the place,

No one. See below.

> What I don't understand is that there isn't a simple
> filter to dump posts containing the word ***, for example.

The problem, y'see, is that you're thinking that Usenet postings all go
through a single point, whereas Usenet is actually a distributed service
where messages are posted to hundreds of thousands of news servers around
the globe, from which they propagated across Usenet.

As a result, the only possible filtering is on the client, or newsreader
end, with the exception of moderated newsgroups, in which messages do flow
through a single point.

> Am I off base here, or is it that I'm alright but the world is all wrong
> (present company excluded) ?

Probably neither of the above, but it sounds as though you may be new to
Usenet. Check out the newsgroup 'news.announce.newusers' for a good
jump-start. 

-- 
John Miller, remembering bnews
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... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage
from beginning to end.
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