uk.rec.cycling

[no97trap]

.. but wafflycat is posting about her hens in uk.rec.sheds.

I 'bumped into' Wafflycat on a hen forum. The hen fora are quite nice places.

[urban_biker]

.. but wafflycat is posting about her hens in uk.rec.sheds.

The hen fora are quite nice places.

Great if you want to get layed I'd assume.

[Mr Larrington]

I feel rather a traitor using web forums rather than the pure commons of usenet.

I've forgotten my old noms de nets but I think I was Struck Off on uc-uk.

Used you not to be Not Responding at one time?

[rogerzilla]

He was Not Responding on ACF for a long time.

[dkahn400]

He was Not Responding on ACF for a long time.

Aah! Light dawns.

[dkahn400]

He is Bo*bus on a certain SSpeed-related website, and Bobby L*ghtcycles on another two cycling sites. A consummate turd.



Asterisked to help prevent the knob from trawling his usernames.

I have heard it said that you knew who he was in RL.

[rogerzilla]

Bloody hell!  Have you seen u.r.c. recently?  It's gone nuts.

[hellymedic]

Bloody hell!  Have you seen u.r.c. recently?  It's gone nuts.

Yes but mostly can't be bothered to read or post.

[Wendy]

CBA myself.

[pcolbeck]

If anyone's is using Linux then think about using SLRN as a news reader. Its fast and support kill files (auto delete those trolls !). If you use it with something like Leafnode to get a local copy of the news items it's very very fast and you can burn through hundreds of items in seconds. The only comparable reader I have ever tries is Gnus on Emacs but that's a monster to configure.

[rogerzilla]

The trouble with trolls is that they always win - killfiling them doesn't stop all the nested quotes where people start feeding the troll.

There are one or two people exclusively on u.r.c. whom I'd like to see post here, but (a) when Sam tried to recruit over there he got his arse roundly kicked and (b) they actually seem to enjoy sparring with the trolls.

[dkahn400]

The trouble with trolls is that they always win - killfiling them doesn't stop all the nested quotes where people start feeding the troll.

There are one or two people exclusively on u.r.c. whom I'd like to see post here, but (a) when Sam tried to recruit over there he got his arse roundly kicked and (b) they actually seem to enjoy sparring with the trolls.

I'm a bit reluctant to mention yACF over there too often in case it attracts the malicious attention of judith, Nuxxy and their ilk.

[Wendy]

The trouble with trolls is that they always win - killfiling them doesn't stop all the nested quotes where people start feeding the troll.

There are one or two people exclusively on u.r.c. whom I'd like to see post here, but (a) when Sam tried to recruit over there he got his arse roundly kicked and (b) they actually seem to enjoy sparring with the trolls.

That's more to do with the way he recruited and that his then forum was an empty zero at the time, IMO.  He did get treated fairly harshly, mind, but a regular urc poster wouldn't to the same degree, I'm sure.

[Greenbank]

The trouble with trolls is that they always win - killfiling them doesn't stop all the nested quotes where people start feeding the troll.

A proper newsreader will allow you to ignore whole sub-threads and/or do this automatically when someone replies to someone you have killfiled (and someone replies to that posting, and someone replies to that, etc).

Google Groups website is not a proper newsreader which makes the whole u.r.c experience dreadful.

[rogerzilla]

Well yes, but sometimes you can throw out the wheat with the chaff when you do that; sometimes threads recover after a troll has had their say (I don't use Google Groups).

The SNR in u.r.c. has dropped to about 10% once you take out the trolls, the flames, the responses to them and the "don't feed the troll" bleating.  I do think Usenet has pretty much had its day, which is a shame - it was a fairly global community, whereas forums tend to be left- or right-pondian.

[Chris S]

Unsubscribed.

Priorities and all that...

[hellymedic]

uk.rec.sheds is the only part of usenet I still enjoy (rather than endure). It never purports to be on-topic and includes the two posters methinks RZ would like to be here.

[Mr Larrington]

I'm a bit reluctant to mention yACF over there too often in case it attracts the malicious attention of judith, Nuxxy and their ilk.

Though they'd have to register, and any Applied Twattery would ensure that they became unregistered in pretty short order.

I'm still at a loss to understand why nuxxy-wuxxy hasn't presented his evidence that Guy Chapman is a murderer to the police, though...

[rogerzilla]

I think Guy Chapman would be a particular asset to yACF, but he really does seem to relish the fights with N*xx and j*d*th.