From: usteen@asdf.fi

Jon Gearhart  wrote:
> Debra wrote:

[I wrote]
> >> And a newsreader's killfile or score file can make
> >> someone who floods the group invisible without anyone needing to
> >> report the offender for breaking terms of service on multi-posting
> >> etc.
[...]

> > In the above text Anna uses the term "multi-posting", and seems to
> > suggest not only that this has occurred at alt.anagrams but that
> > anyone could have and should have reported "the offender" for
> > their breakage of terms of service.

My comments were general ones on the situation referred to upthread
(flooding, which often invovles multi-posting).  The suggestion is
simply that the newsreader software provides an easier* way
of making a user disappear from view than resorting to getting that
user to go away.  This applies to any poster whose material one would
rather not read, whether the posts are off-topic or on-topic, whether
they are unique and concise or lengthy and identical / substantially
identical.

* Whether it's a _better_ way in any given case is another kettle of
fish.

As to you specifically, I have indeed noticed several duplicate posts
from you but also cases of more than two copies (I haven't looked
recently).  If this isn't intentional, I should mention that
  - Google Groups* may not make it clear whether one is directing a
cancel request at news servers all over the world or instead just
asking for a duplicate, triplicate, etc. post to be removed from
Google's own memory
  - even if one issues a cancel message immediately, not all news
servers honour these, so some people will still see multiple copies in
their newsreader

* Obligatory note: Google Groups sucks.


[snip some opinions on thresholds for considering multi-posting
problematic]


> Constructive criticism=
> Victim counters critics

Nice anagram, even with the 'critics'/'criticism' semi-repetition.
That wasn't a criticism. ;)

I'll use a different phrase for my 'ObAnag', since I seem to recall
looking at 'constructive criticism' in the past and not finding
anything I considered worth posting.

  Harsh criticism =
  Charm hit crisis.


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