Re: Strategy with "Uncle Al"

From: bz (bz+sp_at_ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC)

jstevh@msn.com wrote in news:1111325902.330127.18900
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

> The basic answer is that most readers tend to go to the last reply, so
> if "Uncle Al" makes a reply to you, sit for a while to see if someone
> else replies, and if so, don't worry about him. Don't even read his
> reply.
>
> If he manages to have the last reply for over a day, then reply to some
> other post in the thread so that he doesn't.
>

I suspect that you are telling us how YOU use usenet. I doubt that many
'most' statements are true. There are a LOT of different news readers and
people use their readers in different ways.

I don't look at the last article in a thread. I am not sure that 'most
readers' do.

My favorite news reader, xnews, shows me who posted the FIRST unread
message in a thread[unless that person is in my kill file, in which case I
never see any of their posts].

If you don't like what someone says, killfile them and you will never see
them again unless you read a reply that quotes part of what they posted.

Ignore the trolls. Feeding them just encourages them to post again. 

-- 
bz
please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an 
infinite set.
bz+sp@ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu   remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap

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