On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 17:17:48 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2020-08-04 2:41 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>> A lot of these cross-posting posts are race-baiting of the most
>> heinous sort and are posted by hate groups, commie troll farms, law
>> enforcement agencies, and good old fashioned nutcases. You complain
>> about them being cross-posted and not staying on topic. That's like
>> complaining that Hitler was mostly a poor dancer. That's goofy as
>> hell.
>>
>There are lots of total ****ing assholes who managed to get themselves
>filtered in the groups that they most want to disrupt. If they want to
>keep annoying that group they post to a number of groups. They count on
>people in one group replying and not bothering to check for cross
>posting. Then the idiocy they initially sent out gets included in the
>reply and it goes out to all the cross posted groups. People in the
>target group don't see the name of the OP in the header, so their posts
>end up in that group.
>
>My filtering for cross posted messages seems to be working fairly well.
> It's not perfect, but it seems to get most of it.

That's fantastic, Dave. A shame it's not perfect. Keep us posted.