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echo: rberrypi
to: CRAIG DOOLEY
from: THEO
date: 2021-03-28 19:27:00
subject: Re: Politics on this echo

Craig Dooley  wrote:
> Interesting, because I'm reading it on a Fidonet echo.  So it sounds like
> someone is gating a usenet group to Fidonet and back.  Not sure why, since
> politics and Raspberry Pi computers don't necessarily go together.
>
> I'm not trying to police a usenet group, I'm just annoyed that someone has
> combined the 2 groups.

Somebody crossposted something to 8 newsgroups and set followups to 4, one
of which was here.  Then the usual thing happens where people reply without
trimming the followups, and there are now some lovely flames going.
You probably can't see the crossposts if you're viewing from Fidonet.

As ever, if helps if people refrain from feeding the troll.
(and I suppose you on Fido don't have killfiles either, and killing
crossposts isn't a thing you can do)

Theo

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