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Roy Bailey - 26 Feb 2006 11:58 GMT

I have been a subscriber to this newsgroup for a good number of years,
but I am intending to unsubscribe.

Instead of discussions about British history, as the name suggests, this
newsgroup has been hijacked by the loud-mouthed morons of the USA,
either forcing their pork-barrel politics down our throats, or telling
us (as Americans are far too fond of doing) how we are not running our
country properly.

There are 41 topics in this folder today, of which no more than 3 could,
by any stretch of the imagination, be relevant to British history.

Perhaps someone should request the formation of a new newsgroup, to be
called (say) alt.history.british_isles or uk.history.

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Andrew Chaplin - 26 Feb 2006 19:19 GMT

> I have been a subscriber to this newsgroup for a good number of years,
> but I am intending to unsubscribe.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Perhaps someone should request the formation of a new newsgroup, to be
> called (say) alt.history.british_isles or uk.history.

Your better alternative would be to use a moderated newsgroup such as
news:soc.history.moderated where traffic is low and British history
subjects would be as welcome as any other on-topic post. Moderators'
responses to a post seems to be less than 24 hours.

Another unmoderated group will not help, since the twits who insist on
posting the off-topic crap to AHB are using it as a battle ground and
do not care a whit for the bystanders, and would only cross-post to
your proposed refuge as soon as it was announced.

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Thur - 26 Feb 2006 19:48 GMT

>I have been a subscriber to this newsgroup for a good number of years, but
>I am intending to unsubscribe.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Perhaps someone should request the formation of a new newsgroup, to be
> called (say) alt.history.british_isles or uk.history.

By my search, you seem to have posted 12 times in 2005
and once (today) this year posts which reach a.h.b.
What would rescue this group is an increase in on topic posts,
and intelligent discussion. This seems to be poison to most
of those about whom you complain.
Certain posters, certain newsgroups, certain topics can be
avoided by the delete key, or the "killfile" option.
Recently I decided to delete all cross postings except where
the title is obviously on topic, and does not include cross talk
with the usual suspects.
A small number of those who might provide interesting discussion
on history seem bored with the subject and concentrate on useless
flames.
It seems moderated groups are unsuccessful.

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History Forum / General / British History / February 2006

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