And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
there is a problem.

When there is a problem with posters I don't want to read, I put them on
my ignore list, without posting about it. If there are threads I don't
want to read, I do the same to the thread (this is most often the case
with spam threads). "Author is...", "Subject contains..." "Subject
starts with..." are useful filters, and I just have my newsreader mark
them as read. I don't see them unless I want to go back and look.

If everyone who felt that way silently did the same thing, there would
be no problem. Instead people make more noise =about= the noise, than
the noise itself.

And, the truth is, not everyone feels the same way about any individual
poster, and I for one am not compelled to =make= people feel the same way.

It is true that when people respond to a poster on my ignore list in a
thread that is not being ignored, I see the response. For some reason,
that doesn't bother me. (I usually skip to the response, skipping the
quoted text, since chances are good I have already read it or can infer
its content). I sometimes find that responses to an ignored poster are
in fact of interest to me, even if the original post is not.

Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end
of it.

Jose
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