Everyone needs to add their 2 cents to the thread they were complaining about. This is why there are few younger mainframers here. The same 20-30 who dominate this platform with drivel. As long as you’re a member of the cult/frat pack, no problem. Anyone who dares challenge the status quo becomes a troll. Beating the same topics over and over. Bashing IBM without any inside information about why decisions are made. It’s great humor. Perhaps the only redeeming quality.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, August 31, 2023, 3:15 PM, Rick Troth <tro...@gmail.com> wrote: Back in the days of NetNews, there was <plonk>. See #3 of the verb. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plonk In the case of your personal news reader (or for us, your particular email client) this is effective. For LISTSERV (sans the feature Gabe suggests), it rests upon the list admin to remove the plonkee. Gotta love the onomatopoeic meanings and origins of the word! -- R; <>< On 8/31/23 15:03, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > For decades, I've wished for a list setting: > > Set bozo <person> on > > ...which would allow the subject person to post and see posts > reflected back, but not inflict them on anyone else. Talking into a > bottomless well would get boring. > > Ed Jaffe<edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> > > On 8/30/2023 7:12 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >> Dear ibm-mainers, >> >> It is with regrets that after many years I will no longer be actively >> following IBM-MAIN. >> >> The list has become intolerable because of trolling, off-topic thread >> hijacking, and personal attacks. The signal-to-noise ratio is >> approaching "1". My assessment is that without some form of >> community governance and real moderation, IBM-MAIN will soon be >> completely useless except for the archives. > > This is not the first time this forum has been hijacked. Everyone knows > who the troublemaker(s) is(are). > > What I do is set up email filters to send those posts directly to my > Trash folder. I never see them. > > Doing so is a lot easier than pressing the <Delete> key over and over... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
