Mike Vandemann: STOP!!!

William Westphal said:

When I look at the days news in the group and see that 50% of the posts are from this angry person
Mike Vandemann, and 100% of the posts are on this ridiculously overdone topic

He's still posting in here?

I've been using Mozilla news filters for a while now. Once I set them up properly, they made it so I
never see any thread in which he posts.

--Bill Davidson
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:24:27 -0700, Bill Davidson said (and I quote):

Quoted message said:

William Westphal said:

When I look at the days news in the group and see that 50% of the posts are from this angry
person Mike Vandemann, and 100% of the posts are on this ridiculously overdone topic

He's still posting in here?

I've been using Mozilla news filters for a while now. Once I set them up properly, they made it so
I never see any thread in which he posts.

Yes, I do the same with SLRN. The original poster uses Gnus, which almost certainly has the same
capability. Without the Vandemann threads this is quite a pleasant, low-traffic group.
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"Naturally, the common people don't want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of a country who
determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. All you have to do is
tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
- Hermann Goering

He's not the problem. As long as we keep replying, he'll keep at it. He's probably some 9th grader,
having a ball from grown-ups paying so much attention to him. There are hundreds like him in other
NGs and they are successfuly ignored - why can't you do the same?

William Westphal said:

2. I get one notch closer to un-subscribing from this group, at least temporarily

That's what he wants, for sure. Nothing gives Mike more pleasure than spoiling other people's fun.

Guy
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