XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 23/10/2025 7:01 am, Blueshirt wrote:   
   > The Doctor wrote:   
   >> In article , Blueshirt   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Again, please keep the Dr. Who slop out of the   
   >>>> rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup. That's a low-volume newsgroup for   
   >>>> discussing fandom itself, meaning coventions and the people who   
   >>>> attend and run them, and fanzines and the people who write and   
   >>>> publish them.   
   >>>   
   >>> What about the newsgroups that discuss these shows, are they not   
   >>> a part of "fandom" too? I mean, a fan writing something about a   
   >>> sci-fi show for a fanzine or in a Usenet post is pretty similar.   
   >>> A newsgroup could even be considered an online fanzine!   
   >>>   
   >>>> In recent days the unwanted Dr. Who slop has exceeded all other   
   >>>> traffic in that newsgroup, threatening to destroy it.   
   >>>   
   >>> How can traffic destroy a newsgroup? Traffic keeps it alive. You   
   >>> are free to use filters or killfiles to ignore the posts/posters   
   >>> that you don't want to see and/or read though.   
   >>>   
   >>> Also, who decides what content is wanted and unwanted on any   
   >>> specific newsgroup? Surely the readers of any newsgroup exercise   
   >>> their own judgement by using the aforesaid filter mechanisms to   
   >>> decide what content they read, or ignore?   
   >>   
   >> Lynch is being irrational as usual.   
   >   
   > No Dave, he's posting his opinion. Which is what discussions on   
   > Usenet are supposed to be about. You know, people discussing things   
   > reasonably, like adults. Or maybe you don't know...   
   >   
   > I just object, in principle,  to people who think they own a certain   
   > newsgroup,   
      
   ... but ... but ... but this newsgroup appears on Binky's news-server so   
   he MUST OWN IT, surely!! ;-P   
      
   > especially when they seem to have no problem starting off-topic   
   > threads in it themself!   
   >   
   > I didn't say he was completely wrong though, I was just putting   
   > across my POV.   
   >   
   As we ALL can do. If we don't like the views expressed ... KILL-FILE   
   that poster!!   
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   Daniel70   
      
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