My 2c on the ongoing netkook issue

gplama said:

Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
so is anonymous posting via a public medium.

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.

This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
huggers.. but this place has totally gone to the [censored]. This place is
a great resource for all things bike, but has been completely messed up
by a handful of netkooks over and over and over again.

The junk/spam reporting function on CF has been great, no, fantastic.
But as soon as some NTP caveman replies, that too has to be removed
from CF..

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

Flame on mothercarbonfibers!

GPL

I use a newsreader (Thunderbird, now), and I've successfully filtered
out all the kooks now, so I don't see what the complaint is. Even the
humblest news readers have some [censored] filter abilities.

And there are some here that don't have www access at work, I know, so
the forum is not viable for them.

Karen

--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast

gplama said:

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

I get a "Server too busy" message. Perhaps cyclingforums isn't the
answer 🙂

quote='Damian'gplama said:

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

I get a "Server too busy" message. Perhaps cyclingforums isn't the
answer 🙂[/QUOTE]

Talk about bad timing... I think their 386SX-16 needs an upgrade..

On 2006-06-14, gplama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
so is anonymous posting via a public medium.

Heh heh. You accidentally created a pun. What does the Network Time
Protocol have to do with posting to the net?

Quoted message said:

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.

Hmmm, on the positive side, I would get my thesis done quicker if
there were less people in news://aus.bicycle.

Quoted message said:

This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
huggers.. but this place has totally gone to the [censored]. This place is
a great resource for all things bike, but has been completely messed up
by a handful of netkooks over and over and over again.

I don't see a problem. At least recently, the posts and responses
that have been making it through my killfile have been quite
humourous.

Quoted message said:

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

Pah!

"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

Both NNTP and NTP have no such issues. OK, so my ISP has [censored] news
service, so I add another parent service or two to my leafnode config.

--
TimC

Quoted message said:

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

You're saying cats are the opposite of bijectiveness? -- ST in RHOD

On 2006-06-15, gplama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Damian said:

gplama said:

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

I get a "Server too busy" message. Perhaps cyclingforums isn't the
answer 🙂

Talk about bad timing... I think their 386SX-16 needs an upgrade..

Bad timing? I swear it happens every time I have gone there.

Of course, every time I go there because someone posted a link, which
means everyone else is going there too...

Which suggests that if all of us here in news://aus.bicycle all of a
sudden went to cyclingforums, it would crash under all our load.

--
TimC
The triangle wheel was an improvement upon the square wheel:
It eliminates one bump. -- unknown

TimC said:

On 2006-06-14, gplama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
so is anonymous posting via a public medium.

Heh heh. You accidentally created a pun. What does the Network Time
Protocol have to do with posting to the net?

haha, that I did... (should read "NNTP" (for players at home))

To sum up my thoughts... Grrr.. grrrr grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... I'm getting good at dog language.

GrrrrPL

gplama said:

haha, that I did... (should read "NNTP" (for players at home))

Or USENET, if you want to be pedantic. NNTP is just a protocol.

Quoted message said:

To sum up my thoughts... Grrr.. grrrr
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... I'm getting good at dog language.

And [censored] in letterboxes? 🙂

Karen Gallagher said:

gplama said:

Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
so is anonymous posting via a public medium.

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.

This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
huggers.. but this place has totally gone to the [censored]. This place is
a great resource for all things bike, but has been completely messed up
by a handful of netkooks over and over and over again.

The junk/spam reporting function on CF has been great, no, fantastic.
But as soon as some NTP caveman replies, that too has to be removed
from CF..

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

Flame on mothercarbonfibers!

GPL

I use a newsreader (Thunderbird, now), and I've successfully filtered
out all the kooks now, so I don't see what the complaint is. Even the
humblest news readers have some [censored] filter abilities.

And there are some here that don't have www access at work, I know, so
the forum is not viable for them.

Karen

Karen,

I'm using T-bird too but haven't worked out the filtering for news
threads. Can you offer any pointers? I'm getting jack of these kooks!

--
Bean

Remove "yourfinger" before replying

On 2006-06-15, gplama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

To sum up my thoughts... Grrr.. grrrr
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... I'm getting good at dog language.

Hisspit!

In related news, I was in the bathroom this morning, not quite seeing
straight. I was about to put my foot down, and noticed something odd
on the carpet. I hovered my foot, focucussed my eyes, and realised I
was about to step in cat diarreah.

I'm glad I saw that in the nick of time. It had the potential to be
quite unpleasant.

--
TimC
"Eddies in the space time continuum"
"Oh. Is he?" -- Douglas Adams

Bean Long said:

Karen Gallagher said:

gplama said:

Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
so is anonymous posting via a public medium.

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.

This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
huggers.. but this place has totally gone to the [censored]. This place is
a great resource for all things bike, but has been completely messed up
by a handful of netkooks over and over and over again.

The junk/spam reporting function on CF has been great, no, fantastic.
But as soon as some NTP caveman replies, that too has to be removed
from CF..

FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

Flame on mothercarbonfibers!

GPL

I use a newsreader (Thunderbird, now), and I've successfully filtered
out all the kooks now, so I don't see what the complaint is. Even the
humblest news readers have some [censored] filter abilities.

And there are some here that don't have www access at work, I know, so
the forum is not viable for them.

Karen

Karen,

I'm using T-bird too but haven't worked out the filtering for news
threads. Can you offer any pointers? I'm getting jack of these kooks!

Use Message, Create Filter from message, then set your filter. I have
them set either on name or topic, for example I have 9/11 filtered out
in the subject, plus anyone's names that feed the trolls. Takes a little
while to take effect as there are quite a few trolls around at present,
but it's now working well with seven different filters working.

HTH

Karen

--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast

In article <[email hidden]>,

gplama said:

Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
so is anonymous posting via a public medium.

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.

This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
huggers.. but this place has totally gone to the [censored]. This place is
a great resource for all things bike, but has been completely messed up
by a handful of netkooks over and over and over again.

Everyone on bikes - time to move on - the 1800's are over and
so is anonymous riding on a public medium.

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from paths to roads.

This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
huggers.. but the roads have totally gone to the [censored]. The roads
were a great place for cars, but has been completely messed up
by a handful of bikekooks over and over and over again.

Oh, sorry -- wrong thread.

--
Shane Stanley

Karen Gallagher said:

Use Message, Create Filter from message, then set your filter. I have
them set either on name or topic, for example I have 9/11 filtered out
in the subject, plus anyone's names that feed the trolls. Takes a little
while to take effect as there are quite a few trolls around at present,
but it's now working well with seven different filters working.

HTH

careful re: information disclosure..

Bean Long said:

I'm using T-bird too but haven't worked out the filtering for news
threads. Can you offer any pointers? I'm getting jack of these kooks!

Tools->Message filters

This should open a dialog box which allows you to specify what the
filter applies to (say aus.bicycle) and create a new filter. I'm pretty
sure you can ignore messages based on the reply to address.

--
DaveL

gplama said:

Karen Gallagher said:

HTH

careful re: information disclosure..

Good point, but I suspect the trolls don't read posts here, they just
cross post & the troll feeders follow the cross posts.

Karen

--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast

Shane Stanley said:

Everyone on bikes - time to move on - the 1800's are over and
so is anonymous riding on a public medium.

Sorry, the "bicycle number plates" thread is over there.

I thought "cycling forums" (when it works) was little more
than a web-gateway for those without the access (or knowhow)
to a news-reader.

Mike said:

I thought "cycling forums" (when it works) was little more
than a web-gateway for those without the access (or knowhow)
to a news-reader.

It is. Slow as a wet week, full of ads. But it has avatars, so it must
be good.

--
..dt

gplama said:

I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.

Seriously, cyclingforums.com has numerous web-based forums.
The "aus.bicycle" gateway is just one of those. Can't you just
choose not to use it?

Karen Gallagher said:

Bean Long said:

Karen Gallagher said:

gplama wrote:
> Everyone on the NTP networks - time to move on - the 80's are over and
> so is anonymous posting via a public medium.
>
> I'll be the first to back a movement to have either ONE WAY, or NO
> replication from cyclingforums.com to aus.bicycle.
>
> This may upset some homemade 'bent riding, long haired, tube sock, tree
> huggers.. but this place has totally gone to the [censored]. This
> place is
> a great resource for all things bike, but has been completely messed up
> by a handful of netkooks over and over and over again.
>
> The junk/spam reporting function on CF has been great, no,
> fantastic. But as soon as some NTP caveman replies, that too has to
> be removed
> from CF..
>
> FYI: http://www.cyclingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181
>
>
> Flame on mothercarbonfibers!
>
> GPL
>
>
I use a newsreader (Thunderbird, now), and I've successfully filtered
out all the kooks now, so I don't see what the complaint is. Even the
humblest news readers have some [censored] filter abilities.

And there are some here that don't have www access at work, I know,
so the forum is not viable for them.

Karen

Karen,

I'm using T-bird too but haven't worked out the filtering for news
threads. Can you offer any pointers? I'm getting jack of these kooks!

Use Message, Create Filter from message, then set your filter. I have
them set either on name or topic, for example I have 9/11 filtered out
in the subject, plus anyone's names that feed the trolls. Takes a little
while to take effect as there are quite a few trolls around at present,
but it's now working well with seven different filters working.

HTH

Karen

Thanks Karen... Now I've got it!!!

Cheers
--
Bean

Remove "yourfinger" before replying

daveL said:

Bean Long said:

I'm using T-bird too but haven't worked out the filtering for news
threads. Can you offer any pointers? I'm getting jack of these kooks!

Tools->Message filters

This should open a dialog box which allows you to specify what the
filter applies to (say aus.bicycle) and create a new filter. I'm pretty
sure you can ignore messages based on the reply to address.

--
DaveL

Cheers dave

--
Bean

Remove "yourfinger" before replying