Perhaps povray.off-topic should have an additional subgroup: 
povray.offtopic.politics.
But that might leave the main off-topic group rather bare. :)

David

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On 08/14/09 10:34, David H. Burns wrote:
> Perhaps povray.off-topic should have an additional subgroup:
> povray.offtopic.politics.
> But that might leave the main off-topic group rather bare. :)

	Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not 
interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.

-- 
I don't suffer from insanity, i enjoy every waking moment of it.

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Neeum Zawan wrote:

>     Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not 
> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.

Oh no! Have I ever been killfiled?

-- 
~Mike

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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 08/14/09 10:34, David H. Burns wrote:
>> Perhaps povray.off-topic should have an additional subgroup:
>> povray.offtopic.politics.
>> But that might leave the main off-topic group rather bare. :)
> 
>     Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not 
> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.
> 
Thanks :)

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In article <4a859a99$1@news.povray.org>,
Neeum Zawan wrote:

> 	Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not 
> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.

That's always the way to go. I could have a peaceful discussion with
someone in a crawded-with-spam USENET group. I ignore everyone but the
person.

I used to do this on IRC. Crawded channel, peaceful conversation with
very few. This was in the days where I could still bear IRC.

And that's why I despise a mail list. I don't mind them as long as I
can talk in them through gmane.org or something like that. But many
mail lists require you to be a member to talk there. Aff. One must
control everything.

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On 08/14/09 12:11, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>
>> Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not
>> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.
>
> Oh no! Have I ever been killfiled?

	I kill threads, not people (at least not on this newsgroup).

-- 
When a toast with butter falls from your hand, it always falls on the 
butter side.

When a cat falls from a height, it always lands on her feet.

If you tie a buttertoast over a cat with the butterside to the top, and 
let both fall, what will face the floor, the butter or the feet?

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On 08/14/09 15:30, Daniel Bastos wrote:
> In article<4a859a99$1@news.povray.org>,
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>
>> 	Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not
>> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.
>
> That's always the way to go. I could have a peaceful discussion with
> someone in a crawded-with-spam USENET group. I ignore everyone but the
> person.
>
> I used to do this on IRC. Crawded channel, peaceful conversation with
> very few. This was in the days where I could still bear IRC.
>
> And that's why I despise a mail list. I don't mind them as long as I
> can talk in them through gmane.org or something like that. But many
> mail lists require you to be a member to talk there. Aff. One must
> control everything.


	You know, stuff like Thunderbird doesn't let you kill subthreads, which 
really sucks. I don't know if the more well known news readers (tin?) 
allow it.

	I know gnus does. One day, within the next ten years or so, I'll switch 
both email and newsgroup reading to gnus.

	Then *finally*, I'll be able to handle mailing lists (treat them just 
as I treat any newsgroup).

-- 
When a toast with butter falls from your hand, it always falls on the 
butter side.

When a cat falls from a height, it always lands on her feet.

If you tie a buttertoast over a cat with the butterside to the top, and 
let both fall, what will face the floor, the butter or the feet?

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In article <4a85d6dc$1@news.povray.org>,
Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 08/14/09 15:30, Daniel Bastos wrote:
>> In article<4a859a99$1@news.povray.org>,
>> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>>
>>> 	Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not
>>> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.
>>
>> That's always the way to go. I could have a peaceful discussion with
>> someone in a crawded-with-spam USENET group. I ignore everyone but the
>> person.
>>
>> I used to do this on IRC. Crawded channel, peaceful conversation with
>> very few. This was in the days where I could still bear IRC.
>>
>> And that's why I despise a mail list. I don't mind them as long as I
>> can talk in them through gmane.org or something like that. But many
>> mail lists require you to be a member to talk there. Aff. One must
>> control everything.
>
>
> 	You know, stuff like Thunderbird doesn't let you kill subthreads, which 
> really sucks. I don't know if the more well known news readers (tin?) 
> allow it.

That really sucks. I don't know either about tin or another. 

I use slrn, and in reality slrn doesn't even ignore threads
either. But with the scoring mecanism, you can easily separate the
threads you participate. That's a must in any reader. Outlook express
does that by default by pressing C-H. That's nice. Simple things.

These things are usually very easy to implement. But figuring out how
the code works is usually a major curve. People write notes about the
code, but they never write a tutorial on how to keep all the code in
your mind.

> 	I know gnus does. One day, within the next ten years or so, I'll switch 
> both email and newsgroup reading to gnus.

I was never able to do that. I do compose mail in emacs; so it always
made sense to me to use gnus. But I never made it. I don't know why;
slrn however seemed quite natural.

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In article <4a85ed33$1@news.povray.org>,
Daniel Bastos wrote:

>> 	You know, stuff like Thunderbird doesn't let you kill subthreads, which 
>> really sucks. I don't know if the more well known news readers (tin?) 
>> allow it.
>
> That really sucks. I don't know either about tin or another. 
>
> I use slrn, and in reality slrn doesn't even ignore threads
> either. But with the scoring mecanism, you can easily separate the
> threads you participate. That's a must in any reader. Outlook express
> does that by default by pressing C-H. That's nice. Simple things.

Turns out slrn can kill any subthread; with the scoring mechanism. You
score low by a reference; all further messages contain that reference,
and all scored low. Do the same thing to watch subthreads; score high.

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On 08/14/09 18:03, Daniel Bastos wrote:
> I use slrn, and in reality slrn doesn't even ignore threads
> either. But with the scoring mecanism, you can easily separate the
> threads you participate. That's a must in any reader. Outlook express
> does that by default by pressing C-H. That's nice. Simple things.

	I believe that's the same as gnus. You can give a rank/score to a 
subthread, and if you do it properly, it's pretty much the same as 
killing it. I'm guessing tin probably can do it - I never used it long 
enough to figure it out.

	Now that I think about it - I don't see why I'm *not* using tin...

>> 	I know gnus does. One day, within the next ten years or so, I'll switch
>> both email and newsgroup reading to gnus.
>
> I was never able to do that. I do compose mail in emacs; so it always
> made sense to me to use gnus. But I never made it. I don't know why;
> slrn however seemed quite natural.

	gnus seems like a huge headache to learn.

	It's just that I'm sick of mutt. Sick, sick and sick! I've heard that 
gnus is the most versatile you can get, so I thought I might as well 
dive into that.

-- 
When a toast with butter falls from your hand, it always falls on the 
butter side.

When a cat falls from a height, it always lands on her feet.

If you tie a buttertoast over a cat with the butterside to the top, and 
let both fall, what will face the floor, the butter or the feet?

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