Posted by Frank Sereno on 02/24/06 00:16

Jeff Rife wrote:
> Frank Sereno (fserenonospam@nospamsbcglobal.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>
>>>Oh, look, another Google-posting, hotmail-addressed anonymous Netflix
>>>whiner.
>>>
>>>Well, actually, it's more likely one of the same ones we have seen
>>>before.
>>>
>>
>>Why don't you get a newsreader with good filtering capabilities
>
>
> I've got one. It does everything I tell it to do.
>
>
>> so that
>>you don't have to read a single post with NETFLIX in the title? There's
>>plenty of bandwidth for that topic in this group, but you don't have to
>>read it.
>
>
> Netflix threads aren't a problem...it's the "whining about Netflix posts"
> that show up in all sorts of threads that are a problem. And, if there
> weren't anonymous posters who name-hop, I wouldn't have to read those.
> As it is, they show up because these people do whatever they can to turn
> every thread into a Netflix bashing convention.
>
>
>> And if you want to converse about different
>>movies or DVD players and such, why don't you start some threads on
>>those topics?
>
>
> I start threads when I want info I can't find otherwise. I don't start
> threads just to chat. I do, however, quite often respond to intelligent
> posts about movies and DVDs with as much information as I have.
>
>
>>As it is, you are part of the problem and not any part of
>>the solution.
>
>
> Perhaps somebody who posts once a month shouldn't be the one to suggest
> that other people start more "interesting" threads.
>

Whatever. It sounds like you really need to get a life if you have to
play Netcop in an unmoderated newsgroup.

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