Cross posters
Bruce wrote:
> 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.
>
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