Re: Leaving damaged group

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, September 18, 2020 at 6:49:38 AM UTC-6, roge... wrote:
> On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 2:18:39 PM UTC+10, Paul Rubin wrote: 
> > Roger Mc writes: 
> > > Unfortunately, I feel compelled to leave this previously excellent 
> > > group because of its invasion by sex industry terroisim. 
> > I am able to automatically ignore that stuff, by lowering score (in 
> > gnus) on all gmail posting addresses, then re-increasing score manually 
> > for legitimate posters here who are unfortunate enough to use those 
> > addresses.
> Thanks Paul for your advice, 
> Unfortunately, I do not seem to have the facilities that you mention. 
> I also realise that these offensive threads would normally be blocked by a moderator. 
> So it seems that this group does not have a moderator?
It's an unmoderated newsgroup.
I used to access it through Thunderbird's newsgroup reader, but lost my access-provider and haven't found a suitable replacement; the "Google Groups" web-interface used to be decent enough as I didn't mind skipping the (more infrequent) trash... but the new "update" to it has left it in a nearly-unusable state. (For example: as I type this, there is strange screen-movement that seems to be the consequence of some genius capturing the "on key press" event and forcing a redraw.) Back to Thunderbird (and many actual newsreaders), there are often killfiles/blacklists that you can use to simply never see a post a particular user or particular topic, these are very useful for filtering junk out... and even now, Comp.Lang.Ada is far, far less junk than many other places for discussion.