From: artis@nospamplease.net.invalid   
      
   "McPeart"  wrote in message   
   news:090520111334480086%mrf@mac.com...   
   >>   
   >> Make an invite-only group.  Sheesh.   
   >>   
   > Too complicated man...  When the high gravity hop heads (formally known   
   > as Froofs) want to post "your mama" jokes it takes too much energy to   
   > navigate to the group only section.   
   >   
   > One slip up posting it on your wall and you have lots of splaining to   
   > do...   
      
   I can guarantee you, nothing on my wall will ever reach anyone by accident,   
   not even on my drunkest of drunk weekends.  **(Explained below)   
      
   >   
   > "AMR Facebook is like hearing Rush on regular rotation on a Top 40   
   > radio station.   Too much "gargage" in between"   
      
   As opposed to here, where we have to maintain ever-growing killfiles?  ;)   
   This newsgroup right now is 90% content from those "garbage inbetween"   
   posters.  (BTW, it's just as easy to killfile on FaceBook as it is here on   
   Usenet.)   
      
   Anyway,   
      
   **Here's the perspective from which I was looking at it.   
      
   - On Usenet, there's not a thing that I or anyone else can do, as it was put   
   the other day, to prevent my/your "fucking mom and fucking grandma" from   
   reading everything that takes place in any given newsgroup.  (That dang   
   "Google Groups" gateway has already introduced more moms and grandmas to   
   these forums than most people are willing to admit.)   
      
   - On Facebook, even if I were for some stoned-out reason to miss the group   
   page, I have bullet-proofed my wall from slip-ups by locking it down to   
   "Friends Only" reading, instead of the "Friends and Friends-of-Friends"   
   setting.  That's a one-time set-it-and-forget-it deal.  Nothing on my wall   
   is readable from any accounts I don't have directly in my Friends List, and   
   that's locked-in and accident-proof.  It really is that simple.  Even easy   
   enough for a Mac user.  ;) ;)   
      
   Again, nothing on my wall ever reaches anyone by accident, not even if I   
   were completely baked.  It's locked in on the privacy settings, out of the   
   way where changing it by accident is just not likely.  If you do that one   
   trick, you'll be as safe as you ever were using a newsgroup reader.   
      
   So the whole issue is a red herring.  Anyone who can operate an NNTP   
   browsing agent can handle this as well, hopped-up or not.   
      
   As the "Daria" theme says... If I'm wrong, please correct. ( [LA-la-LAH]   
   You're standing on my neck. [LA-la-LAH]... )   
      
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