🚀 go-pugleaf

"Peter Hucker" <none@spam.com> wrote in
news:op.t8dwr4kd4buhsv@fx62: 

> 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. 

Take it up with Steve Firth.