Do we have an administrator or moderator and if so, can that person
please do something about the constant abusive topics we seem to have
these days? It's embrarassing to scroll through the topics on screen
during my lunchtime at work.

If there is no admin, could someone volunteer? I am happy to do it
myself.

Jase

In message . com,
writes

Do we have an administrator or moderator

No. Relatively few newsgroups in the uk.* hierarchy are moderated.

and if so, can that person please do something about the constant
abusive topics we seem to have these days? It's embrarassing to scroll
through the topics on screen during my lunchtime at work.

I just use my newsreader's options to kill thread and remove so that
they no longer appear.

--
Paul Terry

wrote:

Do we have an administrator or moderator and if so, can that person
please do something about the constant abusive topics we seem to have
these days? It's embrarassing to scroll through the topics on screen
during my lunchtime at work.

If there is no admin, could someone volunteer? I am happy to do it
myself.

This isn't practical. The newsgroup is not centralised - you post a
message with your news provider but the message gets cascaded to other
servers. Deleting a message on one server will not delete it from the
others.

If you are using a newsreader (pine, outlook express, eudora, etc.) you
could set it to kill / delete any messages with the word "jew" in to
get rid of most of the irrelevant trolling.

If you use google groups you can report a message. This will only
(eventually) remove the message from the google archives but it will
still be on other news servers.

For more info on how newsgroups work see:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm

or

http://rfc.net/rfc850.html (discussions in 1983 about usenet)

HTH

Chris

wrote in message
ups.com...
Do we have an administrator or moderator and if so, can that person
please do something about the constant abusive topics we seem to
have
these days? It's embrarassing to scroll through the topics on screen
during my lunchtime at work.


As others have said, there is not (and will never be) a moderator for
this group.
Only options you have are to Killfile the subjects/posters or, you
could try complaining about the posters to their respective Internet
providers, however, this last action will unlikely make much different
unless they are possibly posting using a school/uni/work id/server.

Matt Wheeler wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
Do we have an administrator or moderator and if so, can that person
please do something about the constant abusive topics we seem to
have these days? It's embrarassing to scroll through the topics on
screen during my lunchtime at work.


As others have said, there is not (and will never be) a moderator for
this group.
Only options you have are to Killfile the subjects/posters or, you
could try complaining about the posters to their respective Internet
providers, however, this last action will unlikely make much different
unless they are possibly posting using a school/uni/work id/server.

In my experience, most of the delinquent posters who insist on
crossposting utl have verizon.net as their ISP, who appear to take no
notice of complaints about their users. If you've got the time though,
you could try bombarding them with complaints. Unfortunately the
originator of most of the crossposting keeps changing his apparent
address in order to defeat killfiles.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard J. wrote:

In my experience, most of the delinquent posters who insist on
crossposting utl have verizon.net as their ISP, who appear to take no
notice of complaints about their users. If you've got the time
though, you could try bombarding them with complaints. Unfortunately
the originator of most of the crossposting keeps changing his apparent
address in order to defeat killfiles.

Although setting up a Delete rule on 'From' or 'Subject' manages to catch
most of the postings, since they are predominantly on the same subject and
he doesn't tend to change his name that much.

On 24 Feb 2006 05:15:40 -0800, wrote:

Do we have an administrator or moderator and if so, can that person
please do something about the constant abusive topics we seem to have
these days?

No, and no.

It's embrarassing to scroll through the topics on screen
during my lunchtime at work.

Yeah. Freedom can backfire. Particularly when politically-correct
bystanders who don't understand the Internet decide to throw their
weight around. But, on the whole, I continue to vote against
censorship.

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:26:45 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
wrote:

It doesn't work that way, unfortunately.

To avoid some recent unpleasantness, I have put this in my
score-file; it's been quite effective:

[uk.transport.london]
Sco: -9999
Subject: jew
Newsgroups: jew

So you rate Jews pretty low then? :-)

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:15:37 +0000,
Laurence Payne
wrote in :
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:26:45 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
wrote:

To avoid some recent unpleasantness, I have put this in my
score-file; it's been quite effective:

[uk.transport.london]
Sco: -9999
Subject: jew
Newsgroups: jew

So you rate Jews pretty low then? :-)

They're just stereotypes in Shakespeare's plays, innit?
I spent the first 17 years of my life without meeting one, AFAIK.

It's the people that blether on about 'em I can't stand, hence the
above entries.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".