🚀 go-pugleaf

As only one member of our community has voiced any disagreement,
and others, including the dfw.* newsgroup czar, have voiced 
approval, I have decided to resume cancellation of articles
crossposted into dfw.general.

As things look like they may get messy, I would like to encourage
any local admins who are reading to consider filtering articles
from servers that cannot be secured.  Specifically, I am concerned
that news.dizum.com may become a significant source of noise for
the group in the coming weeks.  If, in fact, the group is flooded
from there, local providers would do well merely to place that
server under passive UDP, at least for articles into dfw.*.

As for the continued complaints from users from austin.rr.com,
I have decided to end the discussion with them for several reasons.
Firstly, users in Austin have no reason to support a group chartered
for discussion of issues relevant only to the DFW area.  Secondly,
these users in particular are resorting to lies about my professional
history as some sort of defense of their "right" to pollute dfw.general.
Finally, I notice that my attempts at reason with them are utterly
ignored; their posts bear all the standard traits expected of trolls.
If someone else wants to banter with them, good luck, but I'm done.

On a more personal note: I greatly appreciate the words of support
I've received here.  I love Usenet, and believe it should be protected
for everyone, not just the loudest, most obnoxious, and most selfish
few.  My work to keep the noise down in dfw.general started with the 
idea that at least in one little corner of our news servers, we could
have a regional group that was actually about its region, and not about
hot-button, divisive [inter]national political issues.  dfw.general is
pretty far from perfect, but I think it's worth saving; it's gratifying
to see that others feel the same way.

With that said, a reiteration: crossposts into dfw.general are subject
for cancellation.  Articles posted only to dfw.general are not concerns
of mine.  This is a content-neutral policy.

cb