what the "f***"is Killfile

I am seeing a lot of talk about "killfiling" people. Am I to assume that
this is some form of censorship by a moderator on what is to all intents and
purposes a "public access" news server. I am not saying I agree with most of
the inane bullshit chatter that has no relevance to motorcycling or how a
valid topic gets hijacked and becomes a non related conversation to the
original post. But killfiling someone because they have the tenacity to give
shtick back to somebody, smacks of the brown shirts of NAZI Germany and the
Black Shirts of Italy in WWII.

If you think someone is talking bullshit don't give them the satisfaction of
a coherent reply, just ignore them. Its the ultimate message, " You talked
so much shit that by replying to you I am just standing in it, and who wants
to stand in shit"

We are supposed to be a tolerant society, and motorcyclists symbolise a
group that espouses the virtue of freedom of choice and speech. Does this
action of killfiling act in a contravention to those ideals?.

Richard K

Motorcycling is a means and an end,
Ride the sunset and be one with the world.

 

That kind of insubordination will not be tolerated here.
Consider yourself killfiled.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2

 

Do you read every single post here Richard or do you pick and choose?
I don't have time to read everything so I pick and choose.
Sometimes I use the software to help me filter out the ones I chose to not read (so I've got more time to read
the ones that entertain me).
Is that a problem for you?
Clem
~

 

A killfile is a filter you and only you use to filter out those people
you want to ignore
depending on your news reader you can set tom ignore those people like
kiwipete who rant incessantly about the same point over and over.
when you "plonk someone" only you don't see their posts everyone else does.
Another handy tool is a thread killer.
you set the thread to ignore rather than the sender if you still want to
converse with them in another thread
this is more civilised and more commonly used by myself.
Helps when there is a lot of crossposting.


oh and
(plonk)

 

read (so I've got more time to read

Actually I don't read every message mainly I surf the subject headings, but
cover at least say 40-50% of all messages. You say you use software to
filter?. How? I am using outlook express, is there another method?

 

"Richard Kirkwood" wrote

Noooo. It's putting a person in your "blocked senders" list. You will
no longer be bothered deleting posts from this person as they will no
longer be visible to you. Everybody else, however, can still see what
this person is saying (maybe about you) and they can still see all of
your posts.

That's traditional here. When I see a thread that is of no interest to
me at all, I ignore it for a couple of days and then look at it again.
It will have changed it's subject several times since then and become
interesting to me. Or vice versa.

A kill-file does exactly this automatically for you.

No were bloody not, and we don't. We're here to annoy as many people
as possible.

Do you have any idea just how far into the sunset you can ride from
Perth before you get wet?

Theo

 

that

PLONK

 

"Knobdoodle" wrote

to not read (so I've got more time to read

Well, it could be. Richard was not that entertaining, was he?

Try doing funny stuff Richard. Look at KP's posts as an example.

Theo

 

let loose on an internet connection and the
unfortunate result was...

*THIS* is a killfile

**plonk**

--
Mick
(nah not really - was just too good an opportunity to miss)


**IMPORTANT**
E-mail replies MUST have 'SPAMTRAP' in the subject line
to avoid my spam filter.

 

So after writing
"But killfiling someone because they have the tenacity to give
shtick back to somebody, smacks of the brown shirts of NAZI
Germany and the Black Shirts of Italy in WWII."

.......you now want to do it yourself?
Ok; select poster's name, right click, block sender.

Welcome to Blackshirt-Nazi land!
Clem

 

Pull down the Message menu and it is block sender.

Boxer

 

I'll assume here that you aren't trolling but genuinely don't know. To
killfile someone is to block them from appearing on your newsreader. It
only affects what you see and has no effect whatsoever on the newsgroup at
large. Personally I killfile no one, to me killfiling is acknowledging that
person has effected you and in all but one or two cases over the past six
years for me this hasn't been the case. People like Hatz and other knuckle
draggers that appear here from time to time are less worthy of anger than
they are of pity. Their rabid pontifications only expose their own
shortcomings and ultimately make them quite funny in a sad pathetic way.

That's what a killfile achieves. It allows you to ignore someone without
even trying to ignore them. It also means you miss out on some really
hilarious bullshit though too.
--
Deevo

Geraldton
WA, The Nanny State (® Corks)
www.wn.com.au/mckenzie

 

Fool!
Killfiles are the Usenet equivalent of not answering your door when the morons call or stepping around
somebody who's trying to pester you at the train-station.
It's got nothing to do with freedom of speech; theirr speech is totally unaffected.
It's MY freedom of listening.
Clem
[PS; I like the new imaginary persona Pete]
~

 

Glad you added personally.
I'll killfile only when i find the person tedious and repetitive to the
point of ranting.
Kiwipete and bugsy were k filed along with joe bloggs (till we mended
our ways).
As for kp and bugsy their signal to noise ratio made a pleasant read tedious.
Plus it annoys the shit outta pete if he's been killfiled.
Hatz is amusing tho;-)

 

if you turned up on my doorstep Id have the wife release to dogs and
hope the poor buggers didn't choke

 

Can you get a Hawaian Nazi Blackshirt?

Al

"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon. "

Remove *ME* before replying

 

"Knobdoodle" wrote

either!!

It's called learning by rote in school. By drill in the army.

I spent a couple of years in the schoolboy army, made it to private.
Two years every Friday avo marching. Left, left, left, left, left. OK,
OK, I know that foot now. Never did get to Right. I was 16 and they
let me play with a machinegun and live ammo that was left over from
the war. We had to stretch the canvas ammo belts first so that the
canvas would let go of the rounds.

How stupid was that?

What did I learn? That the army (as we saw it) was pretty damn stupid.

Theo

 

Can't seem to pull down the Message menu.. but if I click it, I get all
these other options..

 

phew
Imaigne if it was right.. you would't know were to reach for the refils..

We used to throw in a right every third call just to be on the safe side
followed by a switch
eg:
Left
Left
Left Right Left
Left Right Left Right Left Right Left

 

What about nutsack, oh wait thats nut sack, right?
or meat and two veg, we gotta have those in there.

Mike.S