XPost: comp.theory, comp.lang.c++
From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com
In article <87a50qpp5n.fsf@example.invalid>,
Keith Thompson wrote:
>[...]
>
>I note that a substantial fraction of the articles recently posted
>to comp.lang.c (and probably comp.lang.c++) are cross-posted to
>comp.theory, and are about the Halting Problem.
>
>Some of these articles contain small fragments of C-like source code,
>but I suggest that doesn't make them either topical or interesting
>to most participants in the C and C++ newsgroups.
>
>I humbly suggest, yet again, that these discussions be restricted
>to comp.theory, and that users try to edit the "Newsgroups:" header
>even when replying to a cross-posted article.
Wouldn't it be better (and easier and more likely to work) to setup your
killfile to kill any article (in C.L.C) that contains the string "olcott" ?
I have not done this (yet); my killfile kills only articles *by* olcott. I
still have to manually kill any responses to his posts. It would, of
course, be nice if we could get people to stop responding to his junk, but
that'd be like expecting the tides to turn.
But I think it (killing any article that contains the string) is the right
thing to do (*), and will do so when I get around to it.
(*) I don't know (yet) if there is a more direct way to kill (in trn) any
article from a given user and plus all followups - in a single go.
Obviously, that would be the real/ideal solution to this problem.
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