🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:31:03 -0000, George G <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote in
> news:1ie5uv1.krcdhztc02xzN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk:
>
>> George G <invali@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Black Dragon <bd@nomail.invalid> wrote in
>>> news:fs0h23$2gsq$1@bdhi.local:
>>>
>>> > George G wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I've seen many a perfectly good newsgroup ruined by your
>>> >> customers thanks to that policy.
>>> >
>>> > People who set cross posts to irrelevant newsgroups are far
>>> > more responsible for noise on Usenet than a few nym
>>> > shifters are. One of those people are in fact you.
>>> > Congratulations.
>>>
>>> uk.net.news.config is not an irrelevant newsgroup as many NGs
>>> in the uk hierarchy have fallen victim to Altopia trolls.
>>
>> It was completely irrelevant to your rant against an
>> individual (Chris Caputo) and your post is most definitely
>> off-topic here since it has nothing to do with the
>> configuration of the uk hierarchy.
>
> It wasn't a rant, it was a statement of fact. Strictly speaking it
> is probably off-topic; however, off-topic posts account for a large
> proportion of unnc.
>
>> (Follow-ups set to altnet.general)
>
> Follow-ups reset. Anyone replying to this post can remove unnc if
> they chose to.

I propose the news server strips the "follow-up" header.  If you want to change the groups it goes to, then do so in the newsgroups header, people should not be able to post to one set, and have replies go elsewhere.  It's childish.

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